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Technically: no. In practice: maybe. Lot’s of teams are experimenting with shorter duration certificates from Let’s Encrypt to get ready for the 47-day mandate. Those certs come with a big gotcha: no more Common Name. A modern browser is perfectly happy with a TLS certificate that has no Common Name. Your VPN or mail server might have other opinions. And since those are probably things you’d like to keep working, there’s a little more nuance to the answer.

Citrix’s security bulletin CTX697096, the NetScaler security blog, and WatchTowr’s vulnerability FAQ describe an urgent situation for organizations using NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772) are known to be exploited. CISA confirms active exploitation globally and has added both to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Third-party risk content is written from the customer's side. Assess your provider, tier your vendors, understand your concentration. ‍ A technology provider is on the other end of every one of those assessments, and its own incident propagates outward through contract rather than inward through remediation. The instinct is that the contracts therefore determine the loss. They determine the smaller half of it. ‍

Almost every obligation in the AI Act is keyed to a risk classification. Work out which tier a system falls into and the duties follow. ‍ Article 4 is not. It applies to providers and deployers of any AI system whatever it does, its subject is people rather than systems, and national authorities began supervising and enforcing it from 2 August 2026 while the high-risk regime moved to December 2027. It is the live one, and it sits outside the structure most governance programs are built on. ‍

Sending privileged material through an external AI service is a disclosure to a third party, and voluntary disclosure to a third party waives privilege. The reasoning is straightforward and a federal court has now applied it. ‍ A second federal court reached the opposite conclusion on the same question within days, on a distinction the first did not draw. The position is genuinely unsettled, and the parts that are settled point at configuration choices rather than at a prohibition. ‍

The headline change in Europe's network security directive is scope. Directive (EU) 2022/2555 reaches an estimated hundred and sixty thousand entities across eighteen sectors, roughly ten times what its predecessor covered. ‍ The more consequential change is who decides. Under the previous regime a member state identified operators of essential services individually, through an assessment of criticality and dependency.

Recently, Gemini was running a capture-the-flag exercise in a sandbox operated by the AI testing firm Irregular. Its task was to steal data from a fictional company. On three occasions, the fictional target shared a name with a real business. Gemini slipped past the test’s containment, reached the open internet, and broke into the real company’s systems. In one case it guessed the password. In the other two, it pulled working credentials from a public database of leaked passwords.

As businesses use more cloud services and connected devices, cyber threats have also become more sophisticated and more dangerous. The use of AI-based tools in organizations has also given attackers new ways to carry out phishing, social engineering, and other techniques used to gain access to business systems and sensitive data. At the same time, phishing, ransomware, account compromise, and data theft remain common security threats.

Most attack surface management (ASM) evaluations start with a name already on the table: a vendor from a G2 grid, an analyst shortlist, an inbound email, or a renewal conversation. Before you commit to a proof of concept (POC), you need to know how it compares. This page provides a capability matrix across 10 ASM vendors, followed by an honest section on each. UpGuard makes one of the platforms on this list, so every section, ours included, covers where the product isn't the right fit.

Mistaking a lack of alerts for a lack of threats is a dangerous assumption. But in the world of dark web exposure, silence is rarely a sign of safety; it’s a blind spot. Relying on external alerts to discover your vulnerabilities means you are reacting far too late. Here are five questions you should answer that turn that assumption into something you can measure. If you answer "no" or "not sure," treat it as a blind spot that a dark web scan will address.