The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now

The NCSC feed highlights multiple high-risk trends and actionable guidance: an active global campaign targeting Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways (organisations should prioritise Fortinet mitigations and patching), rising software supply‑chain compromises (review and lock down OSS dependencies), and a forthcoming ‘vulnerability patch wave’ driven by long‑standing technical debt. Guidance also covers secure access design (ZTNA), passkeys as a replacement for passwords, defensive recommendations against China‑linked covert networks of compromised edge devices (map/baseline edge and VPN traffic