AI Agent Governance Needs Evidence the Agent Cannot Edit
An organization that cannot show who accessed what, under which policy, and with whose authority has no real defense when a regulator asks about an AI agent. A reported incident...
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Three Days to Exploitation Redefines What Timely Remediation Means
Attackers have stopped waiting for your change window. The newest Rapid7 Quarterly Threat Landscape Report finds that high-severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7 to 10) were exploited an average of 3 days...
Federal AI Incident Guidance Puts Evidence First
The first question after an AI agent does something nobody told it to do is not “who is to blame.” It is “what can you prove?” Most organizations cannot answer...
Email Error Prevention That Keeps Metadata In Your Own Environment
Ask a public-sector security architect about an email error prevention tool and the first question is rarely about detection quality. It’s where the analysis happens. If checking a message means...
Securing Every Channel Separately Guarantees Defence Has Missed One
A typical contractor runs one vendor for email security, another for file sharing, a third for MFT, a fourth for forms. Each secures its own channel reasonably well. None knows...
What Government IT Stacks Lose Between Systems
A typical agency runs one vendor for email security, another for file sharing, a third for its records system, a fourth for forms. Each secures its own channel reasonably well....
Defence Organisations Aren’t Exempt From “Appropriate to the Risk”
GDPR has been enforceable for years, and Article 32 remains the single most commonly cited provision in major fines. Defence organisations handling employee and personnel data are not exempt from...
Public Sector Bodies and the Measures That Age Out of “Appropriate”
Key Takeaways Article 32 Uses Illustrative Categories. It names four categories of measures without providing a fixed checklist, leaving appropriateness to be judged by risk. Risk Bar Moves With Data...
What Public Sector Audit Trails Actually Need to Withstand
An agency can usually produce an access log when an oversight body asks. Far fewer can answer a harder question: could someone with administrative access have quietly edited that log...
Building an Audit Trail That Holds Up for Defence
A contractor can usually produce an access log when an assessor asks. Far fewer can answer a harder question: could someone with administrative access have quietly edited that log before...
Public Sector AI and the Requirements Nobody Postponed
A political agreement pushing the EU AI Act’s high-risk obligations out to December 2027, covering AI used in essential public services and law enforcement, has led a lot of agencies...
EU AI Act Rules for Defence Contractors’ Dual-Use AI Systems
Dual-Use AI Systems and the Rules That Still Apply The EU AI Act excludes AI systems developed and used exclusively for military, defence or national security purposes from its scope...
How to Select CMMC Compliance Software
Selecting CMMC compliance software solutions in 2026 begins with aligning tools to your contract scope, data sensitivity, and audit pathway. The “best” platforms combine robust control mapping, automated evidence collection,...
How to Evaluate CMMC-Compliant Cloud Security Vendors
Defense contractors and regulated teams still face a demanding compliance mandate: third-party C3PAO certification, which was scheduled to become a contract eligibility requirement for new CUI work on November 10,...
Government GRC and the Architecture Problem Underneath It
Risk, compliance and IT security teams at most agencies each work from their own systems: a risk register, a policy configuration, a separate audit log export. Each team can answer...