You Can't Patch a Running Plant: How Mythos Compresses the OT Security Timeline
Blog Published: 06/02/2026
The Cloud Security Alliance compares this moment to Y2K: a systemic threat with a hard deadline that demands urgent, disciplined response. They’re right — and for OT, the clock is ticking even louder. On April 12, the CSA published an expedited strategy briefing signed by Jen Easterly (CEO,...
SLMs, LLMs, and the Real Difference That Matters in DSPM
Blog Published: 06/01/2026
Since OpenAI released ChatGPT 3.5 in late 2022, language models have advanced at a remarkable pace. What began as tools for text generation have quickly evolved into systems capable of reasoning, supervision, and automation across enterprise workflows. The first commercially avail...
Securing AI Workloads in AWS: Why Bedrock and SageMaker Need Runtime Detection and AI-Powered Response
Blog Published: 06/03/2026
Attackers are using AI to break into AWS environments and then turning around and using your AI — Bedrock and SageMaker — as the target. Posture alone can't keep up. Here's how cloud detection and response (CDR) solutions and AI-powered threat stories close the gap. TL;DR ...
Annual Threat Report 2026: What It Means for Security Leaders
Blog Published: 06/08/2026
The challenge for today’s CISOs At the broadest level, the defining characteristic of cybersecurity in 2026 is the sheer pace of change shaping the environments we protect. Organizations are operating in ecosystems that are larger, more interconnected, and more automated than ever be...
What is AIUC-1? Understanding The Framework Designed to Secure Agentic AI Systems
Blog Published: 06/04/2026
Enterprise AI systems are no longer simply running models that predict or classify; they’re now deploying agents that plan, reason, and act autonomously. These agentic systems have the ability to browse the web, write and execute code, make purchasing decisions, and interact with other syst...
Toxic Combinations: The Five Powers Fueling the Agentic Threat Landscape
Blog Published: 05/20/2026
I have seen this movie three times in my career. First, in 2007, IT leaders tried to ban the iPhone to protect the "security" of the Blackberry. Later in 2015, CISOs argued that the "cloud thing" would never touch the enterprise. Today, we are standing at the edge of the third and largest shi...
How C-Suite Leaders Are Taming Shadow AI
Blog Published: 06/09/2026
Whether business leaders are ready or not, AI agents are transforming how companies do business. As recent studies have shown, employees are turning to AI to achieve productivity gains, even if it means doing so outside the IT department's control. A 2025 Gartner survey found that 69% o...
When Apps Expose User Data: 6 Ways Misconfigurations Break Customer Trust
Blog Published: 06/10/2026
Apps have quickly become part of everyday digital behavior. From photo enhancements to video transformations, users are uploading increasingly personal content, often without a second thought. That trust is implicit. Users assume that the platforms they engage with will handle their data resp...
Cloud Security Evolution: Why Security Teams are Taking the Lead
Blog Published: 06/22/2026
Cloud adoption is rapidly on the rise. Gartner estimates that 90% of organizations will adopt hybrid clouds through 2027. There are many reasons why organizations are migrating on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. It can increase the speed and scale of computing resources, improve ...
Mean Time to Breach: Why Traditional Patch Cycles No Longer Protect You
Blog Published: 06/16/2026
Adversaries operate on a short timeline that renders traditional defense cycles obsolete. The CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report reveals average eCrime breakout times dropped to just 48 minutes, with the fastest lateral movement clocked at 51 seconds. Let’s contrast this velocity with en...
5 AI Governance Practices to Build Trust and Drive Results
Blog Published: 06/17/2026
AI is embedded in hiring decisions, customer service workflows, financial systems, and product development pipelines, among other essential business operations and services. AI undoubtedly comes with enhanced efficiency, scalability, and productivity, but it also brings concerns around risks...
7 MCP Risks CISOs Should Consider and How to Prepare
Blog Published: 06/15/2026
Introduction: MCP risks As MCP becomes the control plane for autonomous AI agents, it also introduces a new attack surface whose potential impact can extend across development pipelines, operational systems and even customer workflows. From content-injection attacks and over-p...
How to Secure AI and Find the Gaps in Your Security Operations
Blog Published: 07/07/2026
What “Securing AI” actually means (and doesn’t) Security teams are under growing pressure to “secure AI” at the same pace which businesses are adopting it. But in many organizations, adoption is outpacing the ability to govern, monitor, and control it. When that gap widens, decision...
Governing Non-Human Identities in Agentic Systems
Blog Published: 07/08/2026
The security conversation around AI is shifting from model outputs to operational behavior. Organizations are deploying autonomous agents that can invoke tools, modify infrastructure, and participate directly in production workflows. In practice, a new and particularly risky class of non-hum...
Your Security Tools Are the Target Now: Why Detection-First Architectures Are Failing Against AI-Driven and Zero-Day Exploits
Blog Published: 06/11/2026
Your endpoint detection tooling can no longer be your last line of defense. For attackers, it is the first thing they target and impact. ESET researchers catalogued nearly 90 EDR killers actively used in ransomware intrusions right now. The attack sequence is consistent: get in, blind or by...
The HIPAA Security Rule Is About to Change: What Healthcare CISOs Need to Do Before the Final Rule Drops
Blog Published: 06/08/2026
For the first time in more than twenty years, the HIPAA Security Rule is getting a serious overhaul. On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would fundamentally reshape how covere...
Top Cloud Cost Optimization Techniques in 2026 for Maximum ROI
Blog Published: 06/12/2026
As cloud adoption continues to accelerate, organizations are spending more than ever on infrastructure, storage, and services. In 2026, businesses are projected to invest over $1 trillion in cloud computing, yet studies suggest that up to 35% of this spend is wasted due to over-provisioning,...
Top 6 Claude Security Risks to Watch as AI Becomes Your Employees' Operating System
Blog Published: 06/02/2026
Originally published by Akto. If there's one product that has quietly embedded itself into how your employees actually work, it's Claude. Two years ago, it was summarizing meetings. Today, it's reading local files, running shell commands, browsing the web with employee session coo...
Designing Agentic AI Systems with the ORCHIDEAS Framework
Blog Published: 06/05/2026
A secure-by-construction approach to nine-pillar agentic AI design, integrated with the Cloud Security Alliance MAESTRO threat modeling framework Introduction: Security as a Structural Property Most security failures in software systems come from treating security as something add...
Over 80% of Organizations that Miss 24-Hour Patch Window Report Security Incidents Involving Known Vulnerabilities
Press Release Published: 06/02/2026
Survey of 900+ security leaders shows runtime is the breach battlefield Even pre-production controls are not stopping known vulnerabilities in the AI age, as 82% of organizations lack real-time visibility into AI runtime behavior. NEW YORK, June 2, 2026 – The Cloud Security Alliance (C...
