Insights
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Universities face a student-platform security reckoning
Recent exploitation activity and the Nottingham incident have renewed attention on student records platforms, where universities concentrate identity, finance, academic, alumni, and international-campus data.
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Another reminder that retired protocols are an active risk
Check Point’s exploited VPN flaw shows how deprecated remote access protocols can remain live inside security infrastructure long after retirement should have removed them.
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Europe’s cyber machinery is gearing up for operation
Cyber Europe 2026 tested whether Europe’s cyber crisis structures can operate under transport-sector pressure, where rail, maritime, freight, public services, and suppliers are tightly connected.
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Who governs machine-speed cyber defence?
GCHQ’s AI defence case raises hard questions about how autonomy, oversight, private-sector data, procurement, and accountability will be governed in machine-speed cyber response.
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Residential proxies are breaking trusted traffic
A Dutch botnet takedown shows how residential proxy abuse is weakening old assumptions about trusted traffic, with consequences for IP reputation, geolocation, identity controls, and fraud detection.
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The security stack now needs its own controls
Recent Fortinet and Trend Micro disclosures show how endpoint management and security platforms have become privileged infrastructure, requiring governance that goes beyond patching and product trust.