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OpenAI Makes Hardware Passkeys Mandatory For Its Highest-End Cyber Model
In April 2025, OpenAI announced that it will require its users to complete formal, government-issued, national ID document-based identity verification (IDV). Now OpenAI has announced that, effective September 1, 2026, Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) accounts will be required to authenticate using hardware passkeys to access OpenAI’s most advanced cyber AI models. This capability will […]
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An AI Security Facepalm: OpenAI’s Evaluation Became Hugging Face’s Incident
When an AI evaluation becomes a real-world security incident, leaders can no longer view model testing as a low-risk exercise. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident reveals how agentic AI can cross trust boundaries, exploit vulnerabilities, and create business risk long before deployment.
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Microsoft Makes Passkeys Default: What Identity And Security Leaders Need To Do
Microsoft’s decision to make passkeys the default authentication method in Entra ID signals a broader industry shift: phishing-resistant authentication is no longer optional. Identity and security leaders should use this moment to accelerate passkey adoption, reduce reliance on vulnerable MFA methods, and align authentication strategies with Zero Trust principles.
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Use 2027 Budget Optimism To Drive An AI Reset
Budget optimism is rising as 2027 approaches — but more spend alone won’t improve outcomes. Use this moment to reset your AI investments. Prioritize the readiness, governance, and context required to make it truly work.
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Quantum Negligence On The Clock: The US Just Set The Egg Timer On Quantum Migration As An Enterprise Risk
The question is no longer whether organizations should prepare for the quantum era, but how they will prove that they acted in time. New US guidance elevates post-quantum cryptography migration from a technology initiative to a board-level risk management responsibility.
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Identiverse 2026 Recap: Identity Security For Agentic AI Dominates
Last week’s Identiverse conference in Las Vegas left no doubt that the scope and importance of identity security is now magnified. Identiverse 2026 underscored the current transition in identity security as organizations grapple with an expanding universe of identities beyond humans. As Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand framed it in his opening keynote, the industry […]
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™ On Extended Detection And Response Platforms: Platformization, AI, And … AI
Last week, Forrester released The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026. This is the third iteration of the extended detection and response (XDR) Wave, with prior versions published in 2021 and 2024. This Wave differs significantly from the past, especially because of: The number of vendors. This year, only seven vendors were […]
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Use The New Executive Order As A Canary For Enterprise PQC Migration And Procurement
On June 22, 2026, the White House issued a new executive order (EO), Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks. While it has direct implications for federal agencies, there are parts that are worth paying attention to for enterprise security and risk leaders. Here’s what’s worth your attention, whether or not you hold a federal […]
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New Executive Order Makes PQC Migration A Multiyear Operational Program For Federal Security Leaders
For a private-sector CISO, a new US executive order (EO), Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks, is an additional signal and call to action. For federal security leaders, it’s an order with your name on it. The recap on what to do is short: Inventory your cryptography, name someone to run the migration, and […]
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AI Is Moving Fast, But Trust Is Struggling To Keep Up: Why Security And Risk Leaders Can’t Miss Forrester’s AI Forum
AI adoption is accelerating, but confidence in its outcomes isn’t. At Forrester’s AI Forum 2026, security and risk leaders will learn how to shift from traditional protection to a trust-and-assurance mandate — with practical frameworks, real-world perspectives, and strategies to secure an increasingly agentic enterprise while enabling innovation.
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The EU’s Digital Markets Act Meets The Mobile OS, Round Two
Tensions between regulators and mobile platform leaders are raising a critical question: How far should openness go when it could expose users to new risks? This blog explores the trade-offs between device freedom, platform safeguards, and the growing security implications of AI-powered assistants.
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Total Recall: A Cautionary Fable Of Anthropic And The US Government
On Friday, June 12, the same model class covered by our previous blog post went dark. Anthropic suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide after the US Department of Commerce issued an export control directive, which led to requests from prominent cybersecurity pros to undo the action. The bypass that triggered the export controls, per […]
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How Fable 5 And Mythos 5 Change AI Security, Data Retention, And Vendor Risk
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is the most 2026 product launch you’ll read this year. The same model can find nation-state zero days, design novel drug candidates, and play FireRed on a Gameboy Advance with nothing but screenshots. And for the gaming fans out there, yes, we got Fable 5 before Fable 4. These […]
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Security Platforms, Q2 2026
Our latest evaluation of workforce identity security providers, The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Security Platforms, Q2 2026 is now available! Workforce identity security is now a strategic pillar of modern cybersecurity, driven by the expansion of nonhuman identities, increasingly sophisticated identity‑based attacks, and the operational demands of Zero Trust. Organizations already grappling with identity sprawl across […]
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Announcing Forrester’s 2026 Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award
Have a great story about leveraging security, privacy, and risk management to drive trust, resilience, and responsible innovation? We'd love to hear from you.
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OpenAI’s Daybreak Promises To Improve AppSec But Introduces A New Pricing Model: Five Buyer-Side Implications For CISOs
OpenAI recently announced Daybreak, its vision for making agentic application security faster and more capable. While promising, Daybreak will also make security more expensive per unit of work. In this model, customers will pay for tokens and multiagent workflows burn tokens. CISOs and CIOs should budget for application security (AppSec) line-item inflation, not deflation, with […]
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Brussels Takes Seven Member States To Court Over CER, And The Consequences Land On You
If you are a CISO at a critical-infrastructure organization in Bulgaria, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, or Sweden, your Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive enforcement clock just shortened. On May 7, 2026, the European Commission referred all seven member states to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to transpose the CER Directive more […]
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Anthropic’s Claude Rolls Out End-User Identity Verification
Anthropic is now requiring select users to successfully complete a physical government-issued ID document verification (PIDV) process “for a few use cases,” although those use cases are not currently specified. Anthropic is the data controller in the process and will be using identify verification (IDV) provider Persona Identities to conduct the IDV process. IDV prompts […]
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Game Over For Trust: A Roblox Cheat Gives Attackers The Advantage
A cascading supply chain attack did not start with a zero-day exploit, an unpatched vulnerability, or a brute-force attack. It started with a bored employee wanting to get ahead in an online game. A Context.ai employee downloaded a Roblox game cheat, an unofficial script for an online game that came bundled with Lumma Stealer malware […]
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How CISOs Can Thrive Amid Geopolitical And Economic Uncertainty
Amid escalating geopolitical conflicts, economic turmoil, and ongoing tariff chaos, chief information security officers (CISOs) are operating in a prolonged state of uncertainty in which cyberattacks have become a new component of armed conflict, expanding the attack surface just as organizations are struggling to secure AI and critical infrastructure. Security leaders are also facing budget […]
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