The Insight Blog

The year 2025 marked a turning point for many public-sector organizations, defense contractors, and highly regulated enterprises. The acceleration of cloud adoption, the rise of AI-enabled threats, and the growing consequences of misconfigurations and outages forced agencies to rethink not only how they operate, but how they prepare for the unexpected. Cybersecurity moved from background infrastructure to strategic capability, directly shaping operations, compliance, and miss

In October 2025, the U.S. Government Accountability Office  (GAO) released report GAO 26 107492, exposing a growing vulnerability across the Department of Defense  (DoD), the security risk created by publicly accessible digital information.   What once appeared as harmless background noise, such as photos, job postings, press releases, or metadata, has now become a strategic attack surface. For government agencies, military organizations, and defense contractors, the message

On November 10, 2025, a quiet but transformative shift took place across the U.S. defense sector. The Department of Defense officially began enforcing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Final Acquisition Rule , ending years of speculation and preparation. For the first time, cybersecurity compliance is not just a recommendation or a future goal, it’s a contractual obligation . This milestone comes at a time when the defense industry is still adapting to a

Recently, the world experienced yet another wake-up call about our growing dependence on hyperscale cloud infrastructure. Within just months of each other, widespread outages at both Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure) cloud services disrupted critical systems across banking, payments, retail, media, and government services. The latest Microsoft outage, which struck yesterday, temporarily took down parts of Microsoft 365, Azure, and related identity services, affecting authent