Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For many organizations, vendor risk management (VRM) feels like an endless chase—gathering evidence, trudging through questionnaires, wrangling spreadsheets. Add expanding risk surfaces and new scrutiny from AI-driven regulations and customers, and it’s no wonder teams feel overwhelmed.

Remote access isn’t optional in critical infrastructure anymore; it’s operationally essential. Whether for maintenance, OEM support, remote field work, or incident response, industrial organizations must enable access to critical systems. But, legacy access methods like VPNs, jump servers, and even agent-based Zero Trust or IT-based remote privileged access management (RPAM) tools all share one dangerous flaw: they implicitly trust the endpoint.

Government administration, defense, and finance sector organizations are the primary areas Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups are targeting, according to the most recent data from the Trustwave SpiderLabs’ Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team. The team found most attacks are launched from China, Russia, and Iran, with the primary targets residing in the US, Ukraine, and, interestingly, Russia. The groups tracked include Lapsus$, ShinyHunters, and Silk Typhoon.

Breaking down the trade-offs between API integration and proxy gateways for modern access management The way organizations manage access has fundamentally shifted. In the past, infrastructure was mostly static—centralized data centers, long-lived servers, and predictable traffic patterns. You could rely on VPNs, firewalls, and a fixed set of roles in your identity provider. Access paths were clear, and change was infrequent. But that’s no longer the case.

Government administration, defense, and finance sector organizations are the primary areas Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups are targeting, according to the most recent data from the Trustwave SpiderLabs’ Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team. The team found most attacks are launched from China, Russia, and Iran, with the primary targets residing in the US, Ukraine, and, interestingly, Russia. The groups tracked include Lapsus$, ShinyHunters, and Silk Typhoon.

Language models now touch contracts, tickets, CRM notes, recordings, and code. That means personal data, trade secrets, and regulated content move through prompts, embeddings, caches, and third-party endpoints. If your audit still reads like a generic security review, you will miss the places where leaks actually happen. A modern LLM Privacy Audit Framework starts where the risk starts.

Recent research from Forrester Consulting commissioned by Tines, Unlocking AI’s full value: How IT orchestrates secure, scalable innovation, underscores the essential role IT leaders must play in AI orchestration, as well as the challenges that stall adoption – and the opportunities that await those who overcome them. But how do these findings translate to real life, and what are leaders and practitioners doing to navigate this landscape?

Modern application development moves at an incredible pace, but this speed often creates a gap between innovation and security. Effective AppSec Solutions close this gap by shifting security from a reactive bottleneck to a proactive, integrated part of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). This end-to-end approach doesn’t just detect flaws; it provides a unified framework to manage and reduce risk from the first line of code to the final cloud deployment.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! Better get patching!

When I started my career on the trade floor of a Canadian bank, I quickly learned what it meant to work in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment. Every identity had to be secured, justified and auditable. Later, when I moved to the security engineering team, I saw firsthand how compliance could consume entire teams. We weren’t just protecting accounts; we were constantly running manual processes to prove that the right controls were in place.