CISA KEV Update from April 20: What the eight new exploits mean for the board meeting
Benedikt Langer
8 min read · Updated: April 23, 2026 On April 20, 2026, the US agency CISA added eight vulnerabilities ...
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Cyber Security
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NIS2 Goes Operational: Three Decisions Boards Will Face in April 2026
Benedikt Langer
7 min. read The amended BSI Act has been in force since December 5, 2025. In April 2026 it starts to ...
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Cyber Insurance 2026: Premiums Doubled, Coverage Halved – The Calculation No CFO Wants to See
Benedikt Langer
6 Min. Read 15.3 billion US dollars in premium volume, a 15 to 20 percent price increase for 2026, and ...
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DORA Has Been Mandatory Since January: Why Two-Thirds of Financial Firms Fall Short
Benedikt Langer
6 min read As of 17 January 2025, DORA has become enforceable law. The EU's Digital Operational Resilience ...
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Shadow AI Is the New Shadow IT: 78% Use AI Without IT Approval
Benedikt Langer
6 min read 78 percent of all employees use AI tools that their IT departments have not approved. This ...
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The AI Budget Paradox: Why 9.8 Percent Growth Still Isn’t Enough
Tobias Massow
4 min Reading Time IT budgets are growing 9.8 percent nominally in 2026 - but shrinking in real terms ...
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Digital Due Diligence: Why M&A Deals Fail on IT
Tobias Massow
⏱ 8 min Reading Time Three out of four M&A deals miss their value-creation targets - and the most ...
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93 Percent Uninsured Against Cyberattacks: The Bill No One Wants to See
Tobias Massow
7 min Reading Time 87 percent of German companies fell victim to cyberattacks last year. Total damage: ...
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TLPT Under DORA: How CIOs Can Pass the Cyber-Resilience Test
Benedikt Langer
4 min. read DORA requires systemically important financial institutions to conduct regular threat-led ...
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Post-Quantum: Why CIOs Need a Cryptographic Inventory – Now
Benedikt Langer
4 min Reading Time Google announced in March 2026 the dawn of the fault-tolerant quantum computing era. ...
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