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Generative AI has moved from experiment to foundational technology. It now drafts your communications, answers your customers and increasingly takes actions on your behalf. With that reach comes a category of risk that most organisations are only beginning to understand, and the newly released OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications 2026 offers the clearest guidance yet on where the real exposure lies. What makes this edition different is that it is grounded not in expert opinion alone but in the record of what has actually gone wrong in the field.

The cloud has reshaped how organisations build, ship, and scale. But that same elasticity – ephemeral workloads, distributed services, constantly changing configurations – is exactly what makes cloud security a moving target. You cannot defend what you cannot see, and you cannot improve what you have not measured.

As organizations increasingly build and run applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the nature of the infrastructure they must secure has fundamentally changed. Modern AWS environments rely on dynamic resources such as EC2 instances, containers running on Amazon EKS, and serverless functions like AWS Lambda. These cloud-native workloads are highly scalable and ephemeral, which makes traditional security approaches insufficient. Cloud Native Workload Protection (CNWP) addresses this challenge by providing continuous security for workloads running across AWS environments.

In 2026, AWS security has never been more critical. Startups are born multi-account, enterprises are migrating their crown jewels to the cloud, and regulators are asking sharper questions about our controls. Yet despite the urgency, most of us are still learning AWS security the wrong way.

As Europe's IT leaders and C-level executives navigate GDPR, DORA, and rising AI-driven threats, traditional perimeter security crumbles under hybrid cloud and remote work pressures. Exemplified by Odido’s February 2026 breach in the Netherlands, where hackers used phishing and vishing to infiltrate a CRM system, enabling lateral movement that exposed names, addresses, IBANs and date of birth of 6,2 million customers, with data leaked after ransom refusal (see: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Odido).

Noventiq, a CrowdStrike Elite partner, is expanding the availability of its CrowdStrike expertise into the Western European market—combining CrowdStrike product resale with Noventiq Professional Services and managed operations, transacted through AWS Marketplace to accelerate adoption and measurable security outcomes.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016’s extended support is scheduled to end on July 14, 2026, meaning no new security updates or patches will be supplied thereafter. Running a database platform past its end of support significantly increases security, compliance, and operational risk, especially for regulated workloads. Particularly for regulated workloads under GDPR and DORA, prompting a strategic rethink of data platforms.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a dedicated AWS cloud environment located entirely in the EU, with the first region now live in Brandenburg (Germany) and additional sovereign Local Zones are planned for Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal from 2026 onward. It combines full‑featured AWS services with an EU‑only operating and governance model so that infrastructure, operations and data residency are aligned with European legal and regulatory expectations.

This milestone is a significant recognition of our deep expertise in helping customers address the complex challenges of data sovereignty, privacy, and compliance in the cloud.
As organizations across Europe and beyond navigate evolving regulatory landscapes, digital sovereignty has become a strategic imperative. We are able to offer our clients to retain full control over where their data lives, who can access it, and how it’s managed, and helping them navigate data residency, sovereignty and compliance requirements while benefiting from the full power and scalability of AWS Cloud.
A huge thank you to our outstanding teams across Noventiq and to our partners at AWS for their collaboration and commitment. This is another step forward in our mission to empower customers to innovate securely, compliantly, and confidently in the cloud.

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As we move into 2026, the landscape of cyber threats is not just evolving. It is undergoing a radical transformation. According to Trend Micro's security predictions for 2026, what once required a coordinated human effort is increasingly being executed by machines: autonomously, at scale, and with chilling speed.