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Security trade publication that reported the ACM email validation phaseout on August 14, 2026.
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A ThreatMark benchmark reports behavioral intelligence rated effective by 83% of respondents and deployed by 18%. The gap, not the technology, is the story.
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The macOS feature is off by default, and Business and Enterprise tenants need administrator approval first. That approval is the entire policy decision, and it happens once.
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DGFiP says the intruder used a stolen employee identifier and an authorised third party's credentials, and claimed to bypass MFA. No zero-day was involved.
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Deloitte's readiness survey names data foundations, agent governance and integration cost as the brakes on agentic AI. None of those is a model problem, and two are security's problem.
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ACM stops offering email validation in new Regions on Jan 1 2027, blocks new requests on March 31, and stops renewing on Sept 30. The in-place switch to DNS keeps the certificate ARN.
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