The June 16, 2026 WordPress supply-chain incident was not just a plugin update story. It exposed how CDN access, third-party scripts, and cleanup gaps can leave sites exposed.
Cloudflare's February 2026 BYOIP outage showed that provider resilience has limits. If your prefixes carry production traffic, rollback needs to be mapped and tested.
June 2026 WordPress exploit reports show why businesses need plugin inventory, license visibility, patch tracking, and compromise checks after updates.
Cloudflare's account-level `enforce_dns_only` setting makes direct-to-origin failover fast, but it also removes proxy-based protection across the account. The real work is proving your DNS, certificates, firewall rules, and origin capacity can survive that mode before you ever need it.