Guidance for Veeam Data Cloud Customers in Middle East Regions

Summary Veeam is monitoring risks that may affect cloud infrastructure in the Middle East regions, including the UAE, Qatar, and Israel. Customers using Veeam Data Cloud services in these regions should review their data resilience requirements and consider whether additional geographic separatio...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving the Ross Anderson Lecture at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College at 5:30 PM GMT on Thursday, March 19, 2026. I’m speaking at RSAC 2026 in San Francisco, California, USA, on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. I’m part...

Cybersecurity Tech Predictions for 2026: Operating in a World of Permanent Instability

In 2025, navigating the digital seas still felt like a matter of direction. Organizations charted routes, watched the horizon, and adjusted course to reach safe harbors of resilience, trust, and compliance. In 2026, the seas are no longer calm between storms. Cybersecurity now unfolds in a state ...

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Integrating Public Input and Technical Expertise for Effective Cybersecurity Policy Formulation

The evolving of digital transformation and increased use of technology comes with increased cyber vulnerabilities, which compromise national security. Cyber-threats become more sophisticated as the technology advances. This emphasises the need for strong risk mitigation strategies. To define stro...

Digital Sovereignty Control Framework for Military AI-Based Cyber Security

In today's evolving threat landscape, ensuring digital sovereignty has become mandatory for military organizations, especially given their increased development and investment in AI-driven cyber security solutions. To this end, a multi-angled framework is proposed in this article in order to defi...

SynthGuard: Redefining Synthetic Data Generation with a Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Workflow Framework

The growing reliance on data-driven applications in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and law enforcement underscores the need for secure, privacy-preserving, and scalable mechanisms for data generation and sharing. Synthetic data generation SDG has emerged as a promising approach but often...

Quantum-Resilient Privacy Ledger (QRPL): a Sovereign Digital Currency for the Post-Quantum Era

The emergence of quantum computing presents profound challenges to existing cryptographic infrastructures, whilst the development of central bank digital currencies CBDCs has raised concerns regarding privacy preservation and excessive centralisation in digital payment systems. This paper propose...

Commitment to Powering Europe’s Digital Sovereignty and Competitiveness

Akamai remains committed to supporting our customers’ European digital sovereignty with our suite of robust, secure, and high-performing solutions...

The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on the Cloud Computing Risk Landscape

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally altered the information technology IT risk landscape, particularly in cloud computing environments. This paper examines how this geopolitical conflict has accelerated data sovereignty concerns, transformed cybersecurity paradigms, and reshaped clo...

International Security Applications of Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees

As AI capabilities advance rapidly, flexible hardware-enabled guarantees flexHEGs offer opportunities to address international security challenges through comprehensive governance frameworks. This report examines how flexHEGs could enable internationally trustworthy AI governance by establishing...

The ‘Long-Term Danger’ of Trump Sending Troops to the LA Protests

President Trump’s deployment of more than 700 Marines to Los Angeles—following ICE raids and mass protests—has ignited a fierce national debate over state sovereignty and civil-military boundaries...

On the Day They Experience: Awakening Self-Sovereign Experiential AI Agents

Drawing on Andrew Parker's "Light Switch" theory-which posits that the emergence of vision ignited a Cambrian explosion of life by driving the evolution of hard parts necessary for survival and fueling an evolutionary arms race between predators and prey-this essay speculates on an analogous...

Access Control for Data Spaces

Data spaces represent an emerging paradigm that facilitates secure and trusted data exchange through foundational elements of data interoperability, sovereignty, and trust. Within a data space, data items, potentially owned by different entities, can be interconnected. Concurrently, data consumer...

Enterprise Gmail Users Can Now Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails to Any Platform

On the 21st birthday of Gmail, Google has announced a major update that allows enterprise users to send end-to-end encrypted E2EE to any user in any email inbox in a few clicks. The feature is rolling out starting today in beta, allowing users to send E2EE emails to Gmail users within an...

Wiz launches new data center in UAE, supercharging global operations in the region

Organizations in the region can now benefit from Wiz's cloud security platform...

COTI and Civic Partner to Give Users Self-sovereignty of Their Digital Identity

By Uzair Amir COTI's V2 confidentiality layer secures Civic's Dynamic DID, empowering users with control over their data and seamless regulatory compliance. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: COTI and Civic Partner to Give Users Self-sovereignty of Their Digital Identity...

3 Things CISOs Achieve with Cato

Being a CISO is a balancing act: ensuring organizations are secure without compromising users' productivity. This requires taking multiple elements into consideration, like cost, complexity, performance and user experience. CISOs around the globe use Cato SSE 360, as part of the Cato SASE Cloud...

Submarine Cables Face Escalating Cybersecurity Threats, Report

By Waqas The report also raises concerns about the increasing influence of hyperscale companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft in the global cable network, potentially leading to market monopolies and challenges to digital sovereignty. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original...

Microsoft achieves first native Cloud Data Management Capabilities certification

Today, Microsoft announced the successful completion of the Cloud Data Management Capabilities CDMC 14 Key Controls and Automations certification, conducted by Accenture and Avanade, accelerating the industry’s move to the cloud. The 14 Key Controls and Automations are a part of the EDM Council’s...