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EXECUTIVE SIGNAL SUMMARY
Regulatory authority is accelerating toward retroactive enforcement over infrastructure already deployed. Simultaneously, identity surfaces are expanding faster than organizational visibility can track: three-quarters of organizations attribute half or more of security incidents to identity compromise, while fewer than half claim comprehensive inventory of operating identities. AI-assisted session persistence now survives explicit user termination.
Whether enforcement jurisdiction can govern surfaces it cannot observe remains unresolved.
PRESSURE LEDGER
EU Cybersecurity Act revision proposed
Authority exercised: European Commission
Boundary crossed: Retroactive enforcement reach into deployed infrastructure
Control assumption stressed: Procurement finality
Two U.S. cybersecurity professionals plead guilty in ALPHV/BlackCat case
Authority exercised: U.S. Department of Justice
Boundary crossed: Prosecution of incident response professionals as ransomware affiliates
Control assumption stressed: Insider access equivalence to external threat
Reprompt attack class disclosed
Authority exercised: Microsoft (patch deployment)
Boundary crossed: Single-click prompt injection with persistent session exfiltration post-termination
Control assumption stressed: LLM safety controls as boundary enforcement
Malicious Chrome extensions targeting HR/ERP platforms identified
Authority exercised: Socket Security
Boundary crossed: DOM manipulation blocking security administration during active session hijack
Control assumption stressed: Browser extension trust model
ASSUMPTION UNDER PRESSURE (CARRYOVER)
Assumption A-4 remains under load.
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