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How Consolidation Is Forcing CISOs and CIOs to Rethink Security Architecture
For more than a decade, enterprise security has relied on point solutions. Companies invested in separate tools - endpoint detection, firewalls, cloud security and IAM - each designed to address a specific threat or compliance requirement. But that approach is starting to break down.

Booz Allen Loses Treasury Work in Move Tied to Trump Waste Crackdown
The U.S. Department of Treasury said it canceled all active contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, citing data protection failures in handling taxpayer information. Treasury cited a criminal case against Charles Littlejohn, a former employee who leaked the tax returns of President Donald Trump.

Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi Outlines IPO Strategy and Growth Through Acquisition
Claroty’s $150 million Series F funding round will help scale its platform for protecting critical infrastructure with embedded AI. CEO Yaniv Vardi says the company aims to reach profitability, pursue M&A and strengthen verticalized offerings for the healthcare, manufacturing and industrial spaces.

Series B Round at $1.5B Valuation Backs Push Into AI, Application and Data Security
Cloud security startup Upwind has raised $250 million to expand its CNAPP capabilities beyond detection and response. The company aims to accelerate engineering investment and move into high-demand categories such as AI and data security, achieving a $1.5 billion valuation.

Nearly 60% of Tech Students Said They'd Violate HIPAA If the Price Was Right
Budding IT insiders can be corrupted into giving up protected health information of a very famous patient, say State University of New York at Buffalo researchers who also found a correlation between an interest in white hat hacking and illegal breaches.

The Urgency of High-Assurance Identity Proofing Amid Growing Identity Fraud
Remote work has fueled a new crimewave built on stolen and synthetic identities. As deepfakes scale, high-assurance identity proofing - combining biometrics, liveness detection and verified IDs - becomes essential to verify users, prevent impersonation and protect enterprise access.

Identity Proofing Becomes Essential as Remote Work Redefines Enterprise Trust
Remote work has expanded hiring reach but introduced new risk. Identity now must be verified through digital signals rather than physical interactions. High-assurance identity proofing using solutions such as MajorKey's IDProof+ helps enterprises protect data, mitigate fraud and preserve trust.

From Remote Hiring to Access and Support, Trust Must Be Verified - Not Assumed
Attackers no longer break in - they simply impersonate an employee or contractor to gain access. Discover how continuous identity assurance across hiring, third-party access and call centers reduces human-layer risk, and how IDProof+ enables fast, trusted verification across critical workflows.

Also: How Non-Human Identities Redefine Security; the Delinea-StrongDM Deal
In this week's panel, four editors discussed how deepfakes are reshaping digital Know Your Customer practices, what the rise of non-human identities means for CISOs and what Delinea's acquisition of StrongDM tells us about where the privileged access market is heading.

FBI Accessed Encrypted Windows Devices Via BitLocker Keys, Microsoft Says
Microsoft confirmed it handed over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in 2025 under court order, raising concerns over cloud-stored encryption keys and whether default designs that prioritize recovery convenience and efficiency weaken user control and security.

Partnership With Israeli Startup Brings Real-World Threat Labs to Security Training
ISMG has teamed with CyCube to strengthen CyberEd.io's hands-on cyber training platform. The strategic investment aims to deliver personalized, adaptive labs and assessments that help security teams respond to evolving threats fueled by generative and agentic AI.

'WhisperPair' Flaw Likely to Endure for Years
A hacker could secretly record phone conversations, track users' locations and blast music through headphones due to a flaw in implementations of a Google-developed low-energy technology for discovering nearby Bluetooth devices.

Feds Warn US May Lose Quantum Race Without Sustained Research Funding
Federal scientists told Congress that failure to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative threatens to unravel coordinated research and development progress, stall commercialization and allow China to surpass U.S. leadership as adversaries accelerate post-quantum capabilities.