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Security Governance

Compliance, risk management and security policy.

access management iam securityJul 26, 20264 min

What a Security & Compliance Analyst Needs to Know About Microsoft's October 2026 Product Exodus

Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher 2021, and Entra ID Sign-In risk policies all expire within weeks of each other in October 2026. Here's what security & compliance analysts need to know and do before the deadline.

access management iam securityJul 26, 20264 min

Security & Compliance Analyst View: Warner Bros. Challenges Amazon Over Term Executive Contracts

Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Amazon in California state court for executive poaching, testing whether active fixed-term employment contracts withstand state employee mobility rules.

agentic ai security risksJul 26, 20265 min

Screen-Bound: The Unseen Fallout of a Digital Adolescence

Longitudinal research reveals teens spending 6+ hours daily on social media face doubled anxiety and tripled suicidal ideation risk. What the research actually shows.

access management iam securityJul 26, 20265 min

Ireland’s €1 Billion Microsoft Stall: What a Security & Compliance Analyst Needs to Know

Analyzing Ireland's decision to halt a massive €1B Microsoft procurement framework, and what it means for digital sovereignty, cloud dependency, and public sector security strategies.

agentic ai security risksJul 26, 20266 min

Self-Policing the Future: Demis Hassabis Proposes AI's FINRA Moment

An analysis of Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis' call for a new, industry-backed US regulatory framework for frontier AI, and an examination of how it fits within the existing landscape of voluntary federal AI oversight.

agentic ai security risksJul 26, 20263 min

Cisco’s Antares Models: Small, Local, and Efficient Bug Hunting

A deep dive into Cisco's mission-specific Antares small language models (SLMs) and how they plan to disrupt the AI security market by focusing on speed, cost, and developer privacy.

access management iam securityJul 22, 20263 min

Security & Compliance Analyst: Why EY’s Third-Party Support Hack Is a Wake-Up Call

Ernst & Young's breach through a third-party support ticket system exposes systemic gaps in how professional services firms manage vendor risk — a critical failure for a firm that audits others.

cloud security incidentsJul 18, 20266 min

Grok Build’s Repo Leak: Why the Security & Compliance Analyst Cannot Trust Silent Fixes

AI safety researcher Cereblab exposed how Grok Build silently uploaded entire repository databases and git histories to SpaceXAI's cloud storage. SpaceXAI halted the transfers via a silent server-side flag, but Elon Musk's promises of total data deletion cannot be independently verified, raising concerns for any enterprise security & compliance analyst.

cloud security incidentsJul 11, 20266 min

Why a Security & Compliance Analyst Cares About Google's New Search Console Platform Properties

Google is adding platform properties to Search Console, letting creators track how their Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube content performs in search. Here's what this means for security teams monitoring brand presence and compliance posture.

ai whistleblower casesJul 11, 20265 min

Why a Security & Compliance Analyst Cannot Ignore the xAI Whistleblower Lawsuit

Former xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over Grok safety suppression and retaliation. Why every security & compliance analyst should examine this case.

cloud security incidentsJun 30, 20264 min

The PeopleSoft Backdoor: How ShinyHunters Turned a Legacy System Into a National Security Risk

ShinyHunters exploited an unauthenticated zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft to breach American universities, stealing gigabytes of student records.

cloud security incidentsJun 25, 20264 min

Mandatory Remediation: CISA Addresses Critical Oracle WebLogic Security Risk

CISA has added the Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability CVE-2024-21182 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring federal agencies to mitigate the actively exploited risk.