There isn’t a country-wide privacy law in the U.S., much to the chagrin of states and American businesses that thrive on clarity. While frameworks like GovRAMP exist, they aren’t enforced by the government and serve more as a blueprint than a law. Now, however, state-level privacy regulation has begun to fill the gap.

With multiple state privacy laws taking effect or expanding at the start of the year, privacy is now an operational, security, and governance issue that directly affects how organizations collect, store, share, and protect data. For many businesses, 2026 marks the year when privacy compliance becomes just another cost of doing business.

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Open-source software is the cornerstone of most IT platforms and infrastructure. This reliance extends beyond major applications; most software worldwide relies, in part, on even the smallest OSS library that solves a critical problem. 

For businesses subject to FedRAMP, CMMC, and other federal jurisdictions, this is a solid way to plan their compliance. As we’re seeing, however, OSS is just as vulnerable as other software (if not more) due to the nature of decentralized development. This has become such an issue that even members of Congress are starting to pay attention.

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Federal cybersecurity has long since moved beyond compliance for its own sake. Still,  one of the most persistent and dangerous mistakes organizations continue to make is equating compliance with security.

This article repeats a common message that we’ve been hammering home for years: that risk reduction, not box-checking, must be the organizing principle of modern cybersecurity programs, particularly for organizations operating in regulated or government-adjacent environments.

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