Cybersecurity State of the Union, Part 1: The Perimeter Is Gone. Delegated Trust Is the New Front Line.
For a long time, cybersecurity had a simple story. Build the wall. Harden the servers. Patch the endpoints. Run the pen test. Pass the audit. Feel better. That story is not useless. It's just incomplete. The wall still matters, but the breach rarely comes through the wall anymore. It comes through the doors we built ourselves. The ones we forgot we installed. The ones we handed to vendors, integrations, and "helpful" apps that promised to make work easier. That's delegated trust. And in 2026, it is the new perimeter. What delegated trust really looks like Most organizations have a mental picture of risk that still looks like a network diagram. Subnets. Firewalls. "Inside" and "outside." That picture is comforting because it's familiar. But business does not run inside the network anymore. Your data lives in SaaS platforms.Your workflows live in cloud services.Your files live in shared drives and collaboration tools.Your…
