This guide is for IT leaders, cloud security teams, and compliance professionals looking to strengthen cloud security posture and reduce configuration risks in 2026. It covers the top cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools and the key capabilities organizations should evaluate to improve visibility, automate remediation, and enforce compliance across cloud environments. Key Takeaways of…
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Stop treating AI governance as a review layer. Make it release infrastructure
I’ve spent years building compliance into security products. FedRAMP and Department of War Impact Level authorizations, vulnerability management pipelines: They all follow the same pattern. Build the product, then prove it meets requirements. The compliance layer sits outside the engineering workflow. It reviews what already exists. That model worked when the product stayed static between…
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Governing infrastructure as code using pattern-based policy as code
Organizations often struggle to enforce security and compliance requirements consistently across their cloud infrastructure. In one environment, a workload might be deployed in an AWS Region that was never approved for that class of data. In another, a security group might allow broader access than intended. Required tags might be missing. Encryption might be assumed…
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When ransomware hits, confidence doesn’t restore endpoints
Ransomware, supply chain vulnerabilities, insider threats, compliance failures, and software disruptions remain major concerns for security leaders, according to The Ransomware Reality: Zero Days to Recover report by Absolute Security. How CISOs currently ensure endpoint resilience against ransomware (overall, %) (Source: Absolute Security) A survey of 750 CISOs from enterprise organizations with more than 5,000…
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Checkbox Assessments Aren’t Fit to Measure to Risk
Security governance needs to be more than an annual compliance exercise. New companies are emerging to address risk-management gaps in current audit tools.
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ICYMI: April 2026 @AWS Security
Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered AI security, identity and access management, threat intelligence, data protection, and multicloud operations.…
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New compliance guide available: ISO/IEC 42001:2023 on AWS
We have released our latest compliance guide, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 on AWS, which provides practical guidance for organizations designing and operating an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) using AWS services. As organizations deploy AI and generative AI workloads in the cloud, aligning with globally recognized standards such as ISO/IEC 42001:2023 becomes an important step toward strengthening…
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Microsoft Flags Mass Phishing Campaign Using Fake Compliance Emails
Microsoft researchers warn of a large-scale phishing campaign using fake compliance emails to steal credentials, targeting 35,000 users across 13,000 organizations worldwide
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Microsoft: Phishing campaign used fake compliance notices to compromise employee accounts
Phishers have been using fake workplace compliance notices to try to trick Microsoft account owners into signing in via a fake sign-in page, says the company’s Defender Research team. The email campaign targeted more than 35,000 users across 13,000 organizations in 26 countries, but concentrated primarily on targets in the United States. Microsoft didn’t say…
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Cyber-Secure Philanthropy: Tech Infrastructure for Global Donations
Secure philanthropy needs hardened payments, API security, and compliance controls to protect global donations from fraud and attacks.
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Announcing the ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management on AWS Compliance Guide
AWS Security Assurance Services is announcing the release of our latest compliance guide, ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management on AWS, which provides practical guidance for organizations establishing and operating a risk management program in AWS environments using ISO 31000:2018 principles. The guide explains how organizations can integrate AWS services into their risk management processes to support…
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25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget
Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in this article can help you detect threats, increase visibility, enforce controls, and investigate and respond to incidents throughout the development and operational lifecycle. Allama: Open-source AI security automation Allama is an…
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The Governance Gap: How the EU AI Act Makes API Security a Compliance Imperative
Your legal team just handed you a 400-page document and said “figure out compliance.” The EU AI Act is live, your organization falls under its scope, which is broader than many expect. Even non‑EU companies must comply if their AI systems are used, deployed, or produce effects within the European Union. In practice, that means that global organizations…
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Chile’s Cybersecurity Framework Law: How SOCs Achieve Compliance and Response Readiness
In Chile, cybersecurity compliance is becoming an operational issue, not just a legal one. Under the new Cybersecurity Framework Law, organizations must show they have real capabilities for threat detection, incident analysis, and response. For many teams, that exposes a serious gap between regulatory expectations and day-to-day security operations. Key Takeaways Chile’s Cybersecurity Framework Law…
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Qualys TRU Research Finds Manual Remediation Can’t Keep Up As Exploitation Hits ‘Negative One Day’
GUEST RESEACH: Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a leading provider of cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today released a new research report, The Broken Physics of Remediation, revealing how exploitation timelines are outpacing human-scale remediation, and why traditional patch metrics can no longer describe true business exposure.
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Geopolitics, AI, and Cybersecurity: Insights From RSAC 2026
Discover key insights from RSAC 2026 on how AI, geopolitics, and cybersecurity are shaping our future and the need for global collaboration.
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Why AI for financial crime is becoming a core operating advantage
GUEST OPINION: Fraud and compliance teams have spent years trying to keep pace with rising alert volumes, faster payment flows, more complex fraud patterns, and growing regulatory expectations. The problem is that most of these teams are still being asked to solve modern financial crime with operating models built for a slower, more predictable environment.
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9 ways CISOs can combat AI hallucinations
AI hallucinations are a well-known problem and, when it comes to compliance assessments, these convincing but inaccurate assessments can cause real damage with poor risk assessments, incorrect policy guidance, or even inaccurate incident reports. Cybersecurity leaders say the real trouble starts when AI moves past writing summaries and begins making judgment calls. That’s when it’s…
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Construction Safety Compliance Software: Keep Your Site Safe and Audit‑Ready Every Day
Discover how Construction Safety Compliance Software: Keep Your Site Safe and Audit‑Ready Every Day can enhance safety and streamline your site’s compliance. Key Highlights Embrace construction safety software to streamline your site safety and compliance management. In Australia, some of the most popular construction safety compliance software solutions include HammerTech, SiteDocs, and Procore, which are…
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New compliance guide available: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 on AWS
We’re excited to announce the release of our latest compliance guide, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 on AWS, which provides practical guidance for organizations designing and operating an Information Security Management System (ISMS) using AWS services. As organizations migrate critical workloads to the cloud, aligning with globally recognized standards such as ISO/IEC 27001:2022 becomes an important step toward…
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Delve Compliance Scandal Exposes AI Vendor Risk Gaps
Allegations against AI compliance startup Delve are raising urgent questions about how enterprises vet vendors in the race to adopt automation. As scrutiny grows, the controversy underscores a broader issue: many AI tools marketed as “enterprise-ready” may lack the safeguards, validation, and transparency buyers assume are in place. Compliance platform Delve faces allegations of fabricated…
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Top 10 Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Tools in 2026
This guide is for compliance leaders, risk managers, and IT teams seeking the best governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tools in 2026, covering top platforms, key features, and selection considerations. These tools simplify the complexity of governance by equipping your team with the resources needed to manage evolving regulations, reduce risk, and control costs more…
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Nutanix Unveils Nutanix Agentic AI, Full Stack Software Solution to Unlock the Potential of Enterprise AI Factories
COMPANY NEWS: Designed to deliver performance, compliance, and security for Agentic AI applications and help minimise aggregate token costs Empowers enterprise infrastructure and platform teams to simply build, scale, and operate AI factories Enables developer teams with a rich set of AI PaaS services integrated with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to accelerate deployment of Agentic AI…
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I replaced manual pen tests with automation. Here’s what I learned.
More accreditation and compliance requirements have been added in response to cyber incidents. While these frameworks play an important role in establishing security baselines, true security is more than just achieving a perfect compliance score. As I often say, “policies and procedures won’t stop an attacker, they’ll just have more documents to exfiltrate when they…
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Avalara Acquires Versori to Accelerate AI-Native, Enterprise-Grade Integration at Global Scale
Avalara, Inc., the agentic tax and compliance leader, today announced it has acquired Versori, a next-generation integration platform company specializing in automated connector development powered by agentic AI workflows. Deal terms were not disclosed.
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Kiteworks Flags Canada Sovereignty Compliance Gaps
Kiteworks’ newly released “2026 Data Security and Compliance Risk: Data Sovereignty Report” finds that Canadian organisations report the lowest sovereignty incident rate among surveyed regions — yet channel leaders warn that the risk environment is intensifying, not stabilizing. The cross-regional survey of 286 security, compliance, and IT professionals across Canada, Europe, and the Middle East…
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Beachhead Solutions Unveils ComplianceEZ 2.0 for MSPs
Beachhead Solutions has launched ComplianceEZ 2.0, a major update to its compliance management tool built into the BeachheadSecure for MSPs platform. The company says the new version moves beyond simple documentation and delivers full lifecycle management of cybersecurity compliance, with AI-driven guidance included at no extra cost. Beachhead positions ComplianceEZ 2.0 as MSP-focused GRC alternative…
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Applying green energy tax policies to improve cybersecurity
For years, governments have focused only on the stick of compliance when they could leverage the carrot of tax incentives. Theoretically, compliance fines and penalties should act as a deterrent that improves accountability and reduces data breaches. However, many vendors often assume compliance risk rather than securing data effectively. For example, Meta has been the…
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Compliance Scorecard v10 delivers context-driven AI for explainable compliance decisions
Compliance Scorecard announced the release of v10, introducing governed, audit-ready AI designed to support defensible compliance decision-making for managed service providers (MSPs). Compliance Scorecard v10 applies AI only within a structured system of validated context and controls. The platform is built on a simple premise: AI can only be trusted in compliance if the required…
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How to Securely Edit and Redact Sensitive PDFs: A Cybersecurity Guide
PDF security guide covering redaction, metadata risks, compliance standards, and safe editing of password-protected files to prevent data leaks.
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Proofpoint Launches Revamped Global Partner Network
Proofpoint, Inc., a cybersecurity and compliance provider, has unveiled the Proofpoint Partner Network, an enhanced global partner program designed to help partners grow faster, strengthen margins, and deliver greater value to customers as cyber threats increasingly target people, data, and AI-driven workflows. Proofpoint aligns new partner network with channel growth According to Proofpoint, the new…
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Video: SurePath AI CEO Secure GenAI Adoption with Zero Trust
SurePath AI CEO Casey Bleeker explains how organizations can accelerate generative AI adoption using zero trust principles and AWS guardrails without increasing security and compliance risk.
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AI-driven scams are eroding trust in calls, messages, and meetings
In this Help Net Security video, Miguel Fornés, Governance and Compliance Manager at Surfshark, discusses how AI is changing social engineering attacks. He describes how tasks that once took weeks, such as research and targeting, are now automated and cheap. This shift has lowered the skills and cost needed to run scams and phishing campaigns.…
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AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…
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AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the 2025 Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) attestation cycle with 183 services in scope. This alignment with C5 requirements demonstrates our ongoing commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers in Germany and across Europe can run…