Meta and SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain

This opinion article argues that both AI training data governance (e.g., Meta limiting European data) and enterprises running end-of-support databases (e.g., 20% of Microsoft SQL Server instances) reflect broader software supply chain hygiene failures. Drawing parallels to effective food safety regulation, it calls for risk-based, enforceable standards and accountability mechanisms—potentially via regulation and insurance—to curb systemic cyber risk, rather than allowing outdated software and unvetted data practices to persist.