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CISOs Preparing for Shorter TLS Certificate Lifespans

🔐 Shorter maximum TLS certificate lifespans are imminent: starting 15 March 2026 the limit drops from 398 days to 200 days, then to 100 days a year later and eventually to 47 days by 2029. CISOs should prioritize complete, continuously updated certificate inventories and move to automated issuance and renewal — ideally via ACME — to avoid outages. Centralized governance, percentage-based renewal policies, and integrated alerts tied to ticketing systems reduce human error and operational risk.

2026 Predictions: Autonomous AI and the Year of the Defender

🛡️In 2026 Palo Alto Networks forecasts a shift to the Year of the Defender as enterprises counter AI-driven threats with AI-enabled defenses. The report outlines six predictions — identity deepfakes, autonomous agents as insider threats, data poisoning, executive legal exposure, accelerated quantum urgency, and the browser as an AI workspace. It urges autonomy with control, unified DSPM/AI‑SPM platforms, and crypto agility to secure the AI economy.

AWS Payments Cryptography Adds Hybrid Post-Quantum TLS

🔐 AWS Payments Cryptography now supports hybrid post-quantum TLS to protect API calls and long-lived data-in-transit using ML-KEM-based PQC. This helps enterprises mitigate “harvest now, decrypt later” risks by combining classical and post-quantum key establishment. Customers enable PQ-TLS by upgrading to a compatible AWS SDK or browser and can verify sessions via tlsDetails in CloudTrail. The capability is generally available across Regions at no added cost.

BigQuery Data Transfer Service Enhancements and Compliance

🔔 The BigQuery Data Transfer Service expands its connector ecosystem with new GA integrations (Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SFMC, Facebook Ads, and GA4) and preview connectors like Stripe, PayPal, Snowflake, and Hive. Platform improvements include event-driven transfers, incremental ingestion, GAQL-based custom Google Ads reports, and enhanced Oracle scale. Security and compliance gains—EU Data Boundary GA, FedRAMP High, CJIS, access transparency, regional endpoints, and key usage tracking—support regulated workloads. A new consumption-based pricing model applies to third-party connectors once they reach GA.

AWS Private CA Adds ML-DSA Post-Quantum Certificates

🔐 AWS Private CA now supports the post-quantum digital signature algorithm ML-DSA (NIST FIPS 204), enabling organizations to create CAs and issue certificates designed to resist quantum attacks. The feature lets you test certificate issuance, identity verification, and code signing using ML-DSA, and supports CRLs and OCSP responders. Availability spans all commercial AWS Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions to help teams begin transitioning PKI toward post-quantum cryptography.

Agent Registry for Discovering and Verifying Signed Bots

🔐 This post proposes a lightweight, crowd-curated registry for bots and agents to simplify discovery of public keys used for cryptographic Web Bot Auth signatures. It describes a simple list format of URLs that point to signature-agent cards—extended JWKS entries containing operator metadata and keys—and shows how registries enable origins and CDNs to validate agent signatures at scale. Examples and a demo integration illustrate practical adoption.

AWS Payment Cryptography Now Available in Three Regions

🔐 AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Canada (Montreal), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (London). The fully managed service centralizes payment-specific cryptographic operations and key management for cloud-hosted payment applications and scales elastically to meet changing workloads. It is assessed as compliant with PCI PIN and PCI P2PE, reducing the need for dedicated payment HSMs. Customers can position cryptographic operations closer to latency-sensitive applications and pursue multi-Region high availability.

Proving Data Sovereignty: Controls, Keys, and Audits

🔒 The article argues that data sovereignty commitments like Project Texas must be supported by auditable, technical evidence rather than marketing promises. It prescribes five concrete, testable controls — brokered zero‑trust access, in‑region HSM keys, immutable WORM logs, continuous validation, and third‑party attestation — plus measurable metrics to prove compliance. A 90‑day blueprint and emerging AI automation are offered to operationalize verification and produce regulator‑ready, reproducible evidence.

FinWise Breach Highlights Encryption and Insider Risk

🔒 The FinWise data breach involved a former employee who retained credentials and accessed systems on May 31, 2024, exposing personal records for 689,000 American First Finance customers. The intrusion remained undetected until June 18, 2025, prompting lawsuits alleging inadequate encryption and weak security governance. Experts say robust protection requires not only encryption but effective key management, strict access controls, and proactive monitoring. Vendor solutions such as D.AMO are presented as integrated platforms combining encryption, an isolated KMS, and centralized control to mitigate insider risk.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server: KMS Encryption for Native Backups

🔐 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports encrypting native backup files (.bak) stored in Amazon S3 using server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS). By default, native backups remain encrypted with Amazon S3-managed keys (SSE-S3), and customers can opt to apply their own KMS key for additional protection and key control. To enable the feature, update the KMS key policy to grant the RDS backup service access and specify the parameter @enable_bucket_default_encryption in the native backup stored procedure. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for SQL Server is offered.

Quantum Readiness: Why Incident Response Won't Work

🔐 The arrival of cryptographically relevant quantum computers will create a "silent boom" where adversaries can capture encrypted traffic today and decrypt it later, making intrusions neither observed nor observable. This undermines traditional incident response and shifts responsibility to engineering teams, not a vendor checkbox. Organizations must pursue quantum readiness by engaging developers to inventory algorithms and data, assess internet-facing assets for PQC support, and build testing capability for new ciphers within their release cycles.

Google transitions to cryptographic media sanitization

🔐 Google will transition in November 2025 from overwrite-based media sanitization to cryptographic erasure, using default encryption to render data unrecoverable by securely deleting encryption keys rather than overwriting drives. Recognized in NIST SP 800-88, this method is faster and better suited to modern storage technologies. Google says it will apply a layered, defense-in-depth model with independent verification, key rotations, and protections for device secrets to maintain strong safeguards.

You Don’t Need Quantum Hardware for PQC Readiness Now

🔐 Cloudflare explains that post-quantum cryptography (PQC) protects communications against future quantum computers and does not require specialized quantum hardware. PQC runs today on existing phones, servers, and network infrastructure, can scale at Internet level, and in many cases matches or exceeds classical performance. The post argues that quantum technologies like QKD and QRNG are interesting scientific tools but are neither necessary nor sufficient for broad post-quantum security; organizations should prioritize cryptographic agility and migration to PQC.

Achieve Agentic Productivity with Vertex AI Agent Builder

🛠️ Vertex AI Agent Builder is a unified platform for building, grounding, and deploying production-grade AI agents, designed to move organizations from prototype to scalable, secure services. It centers development on five pillars: Agent frameworks, Model choice, Tools for taking actions, Scalability and performance, and Built-in trust and security, and supports the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and third-party models including Gemini 2.5 Flash Pro. The platform offers managed runtime features such as sandboxed code execution, Agent-to-Agent collaboration, Bidirectional Streaming, and a streamlined one-line path from ADK prototype to Agent Engine deployment, while enterprise controls like VPC-SC and CMEK address compliance and data protection.

Signal adds opt-in end-to-end encrypted backups for chats

🔒 Signal has introduced an opt-in secure cloud backups feature that creates end-to-end encrypted archives of users' messages and recent media. The capability is available now in the Android beta and will be rolled out to iOS and desktop after testing completes. The free tier stores messages and up to 45 days of media within a 100 MiB limit; a paid $1.99/month plan raises storage to 100 GB and extends media retention. Backups occur daily, exclude soon-to-disappear and view-once messages, and are protected by a 64-character recovery key generated on-device that Signal never receives.

SageMaker HyperPod Supports Customer-Managed KMS for EBS

🔐 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports customer-managed AWS KMS keys (CMKs) to encrypt EBS volumes, giving enterprises direct control over encryption for root and secondary storage. This enables integration with existing key management and compliance workflows and uses a grants-based approach for secure cross-account access. Customers can specify CMKs via the CreateCluster and UpdateCluster APIs for clusters in continuous provisioning mode. The capability is available in all Regions where HyperPod runs.

Backdoor Weakness Found in TETRA Radio Encryption Standard

🔒 Security researchers from Midnight Blue have disclosed a critical weakness in an ETSI-endorsed TETRA end-to-end encryption implementation used in professional radios. After extracting and reverse-engineering a Sepura device, they found the E2EE algorithm compresses a 128-bit key to an effective 56 bits before encryption, drastically weakening confidentiality. The behavior looks like an intentional backdoor, and it is unclear which organizations use the vulnerable implementation or whether operators are aware of the risk.

UNWG Releases Video Series on P25 LMR Encryption Importance

🔐 The Joint SAFECOM–NCSWIC Project 25 (P25) User Needs Working Group (UNWG) has published a video series highlighting the importance of P25 land mobile radio (LMR) encryption for national security and first responder communications. The series explains three types of P25 protections — link layer authentication, link layer encryption, and voice traffic encryption — and why each matters. Another installment outlines UNWG’s role in preserving interoperability and encourages public safety stakeholder engagement.

Quantum-safe security: Progress toward PQC adoption

🔒 Microsoft outlines a multi-year plan to transition to post-quantum cryptography, stressing that preparation must begin now. The post highlights investments in both quantum research (including Majorana 1 and 4D geometric error correction) and cryptographic readiness, plus collaboration with standards bodies such as NIST and IETF. It describes tools like the Adams Bridge Accelerator, PQC previews, and the Quantum Safe Program with a phased roadmap targeting early adoption by 2029 and completion by 2033.

AWS Achieves HITRUST Certification for 177 Services

🔒 Amazon Web Services announced that 177 AWS services achieved HITRUST certification for the 2025 assessment cycle, with five services certified for the first time: Amazon Verified Permissions, AWS B2B Data Interchange, AWS Payment Cryptography, AWS Resource Explorer, and AWS Security Incident Response. A third‑party assessor audited the services under the HITRUST CSF v11.5.1 framework. Customers can inherit the certification for validated assessments when they use in‑scope services and follow the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, and evidence is available through AWS Artifact.