Dual-Fit Imperative in Security Leadership: A Grounded Theory Investigation of CISO Role Enactment in Modern Organisations

The Chief Information Security Officer CISO has emerged as a strategically prominent executive role, confronting an adversarial environment, irreconcilable accountability tensions between security and business enablement, and a prevention paradox in which success remains invisible to resource...

Alexey Tulia at Tech Race Summit: how AI agents are changing engineering leadership

Alexey Tulia, Executive Leader at Coinspaid Dev, discussed the changing role of engineers and CTOs during the AI…...

CVE-2026-92778

CMAK through 3.0.0.6 fails to apply the scheduled leader election feature toggle to HTML form routes, allowing attackers to bypass the feature gate. Attackers can access the form endpoints to start and stop the recurring election scheduler, disrupting leadership across managed Kafka clusters...

EUVD-2026-81041

CMAK through 3.0.0.6 fails to apply the scheduled leader election feature toggle to HTML form routes, allowing attackers to bypass the feature gate. Attackers can access the form endpoints to start and stop the recurring election scheduler, disrupting leadership across managed Kafka clusters...

CVE-2026-92778 CMAK through 3.0.0.6 Feature Gate Bypass via HTML Form Routes

CMAK through 3.0.0.6 fails to apply the scheduled leader election feature toggle to HTML form routes, allowing attackers to bypass the feature gate. Attackers can access the form endpoints to start and stop the recurring election scheduler, disrupting leadership across managed Kafka clusters...

CVE-2026-92778

CMAK (Yahoo's Cloud Management for Apache Kafka) through 3.0.0.6 contains a feature gate bypass in its HTML form routes. The scheduled leader election feature toggle is not applied to these routes, allowing an authenticated low-privilege attacker to access form endpoints and start or stop the rec...

CVE-2026-92778 CMAK through 3.0.0.6 Feature Gate Bypass via HTML Form Routes

CMAK through 3.0.0.6 fails to apply the scheduled leader election feature toggle to HTML form routes, allowing attackers to bypass the feature gate. Attackers can access the form endpoints to start and stop the recurring election scheduler, disrupting leadership across managed Kafka clusters...

CVE-2026-92778 CMAK through 3.0.0.6 Feature Gate Bypass via HTML Form Routes

CMAK through 3.0.0.6 fails to apply the scheduled leader election feature toggle to HTML form routes, allowing attackers to bypass the feature gate. Attackers can access the form endpoints to start and stop the recurring election scheduler, disrupting leadership across managed Kafka clusters...

CVE-2026-92778: Protection Mechanism Failure

CMAK through 3.0.0.6 fails to apply the scheduled leader election feature toggle to HTML form routes, allowing attackers to bypass the feature gate. Attackers can access the form endpoints to start and stop the recurring election scheduler, disrupting leadership across managed Kafka clusters...

PT-2026-94055

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CMAK versions prior to 3.0.0.7 Description The software fails to apply the scheduled leader election feature toggle to HTML form routes, which allows attackers to bypass the feature gate. By accessing these form endpoints, an attacker can star...

EUVD-2026-77486

Description A submitted topology carries two lists of blobstore keys, dependencyjars and dependencyartifacts, which the client fills in after uploading the corresponding blobs. Nimbus performed no validation of their contents on the submission path, yet acts on them in two places. During cleanup ...

PT-2026-91235

Description A submitted topology carries two lists of blobstore keys, dependency jars and dependency artifacts, which the client fills in after uploading the corresponding blobs. Nimbus performed no validation of their contents on the submission path, yet acts on them in two places. During cleanu...

Microsoft named a Leader in the Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026

Security teams are overwhelmed with findings but still struggle to answer a simple question: which risks matter right now? A vulnerability alone is rarely the problem. The same vulnerability running in production, exposed through a misconfiguration or over-permissioned identity, is a real path to...

​​Microsoft named a Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

As organizations adopt AI, they must secure both cloud and AI environments through a unified security control plane as their attack surface expands. Because modern applications and AI workloads are built and run in the cloud, security teams must understand which exposures matter most, prioritize...

Shadow AI, Rogue Agents, and Data Leaks: A Special Report on Navigating AI Risk

Discover top enterprise AI risks — from shadow AI to rogue agents and data leaks — plus practical CISO strategies in the new Akamai SOTI special report...

CVE-2026-64556 perf/core: Detach event groups during remove_on_exec

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Detach event groups during removeonexec perfeventremoveonexec removes events by calling perfeventexitevent. For top-level events, this removes the event from the context with DETACHEXIT only. This can leave inconsisten...

The Fastest Path to AI Adoption Runs Through Security

Security leaders who build fast, visible paths to AI adoption are becoming the most valued partners in their organizations. AI governance done right gives security teams the visibility they need, employees the tools they want, and CISOs the strategic influence they have earned. According to...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking virtually at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m speaking at Boston Leadership Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. I’m speaki...

5 insights from Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 Frost Radar™ for Cloud Security Posture Management

Cloud security posture management CSPM is being redefined as two forces collide: Cloud environments are becoming more interconnected—spanning workloads, identities, data, APIs, and development pipelines—while security teams must reduce risk faster with fewer tools and less time. Frost & Sullivan’...

Beyond the Score: Using AI to Translate CVEs into Real-World Business Risk

Security leaders rarely struggle to gather data, but they often struggle to turn that data into something clear and meaningful for the business. In a typical week, a CISO might receive a report listing hundreds or even thousands of vulnerabilities, most of them accompanied by CVSS scores that mak...