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The 14 Cloud Security Principles from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre form the primary framework for UK public sector cloud procurement and, increasingly, for private sector regulated workloads. Any credible cloud security case in the UK context has to address these principles explicitly. For organizations placing workloads on sovereign cloud specifically, the mapping matters more than for general cloud procurement.

CFEngine 3.29.0 changes how storage promises treat a filesystem that is already mounted. A promise for an unmounted filesystem now mounts only that filesystem instead of all unmounted filesystems, edit_fstab actively maintains the file system table entry to keep it aligned with the promise even when the filesystem is already mounted, and an unmount promise acts only on the explicitly promised filesystem.

You may be familiar with web card skimming, where a fraudster replaces the payment iframe on an ecommerce site with a fake version designed to intercept payment details or divert a transaction. However, there’s another variation that, while not new, is something we encounter far less often. It was highlighted this week during a call from an ecommerce vendor: redirection fraud. In this scenario, the attack starts much earlier in the customer journey.

This assessment estimates how much exposure you carry. The output is a short read on which parts of your stack would resist a change you might need to make. The score is for an internal conversation that surfaces specific decisions.

Learn how DDoS attacks work, how threats are evolving, and how modern network-integrated protection can help defend your infrastructure. Network connectivity is the frontline of revenue generation and customer trust for almost every modern enterprise. But as digital footprints expand across hybrid and multicloud environments, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow in volume, frequency, and sophistication.