# CHQ-SC-2026-002

- **Artifact ID:** CHQ-SC-2026-002
- **Status:** RATIFIED
- **Public record:** https://record.cybersecurityhq.com/conditions/chq-sc-2026-002
- **Machine-record SHA-256:** `31a271e17606fc68982e4cee67f700de34693e1e279053617938b6c517cbbc1d`

## Complete structured record

```json
{
  "id": "CHQ-SC-2026-002",
  "name": "Edge and Management-Plane Compromise",
  "domain": "Control Surface",
  "status": "RATIFIED",
  "persistence": "REINFORCING",
  "first_observed": "2026-02-28",
  "reinforcement": {
    "date": "2026-05-04",
    "evidence": "CHQ-EX-2026-019",
    "basis": "The exhibit expressly references SC-002 and records administrator-scope concentration in the management plane."
  },
  "definition": "Operational control infrastructure increasingly centralizes authority across distributed systems, creating systemic exposure when vulnerabilities occur within management layers.",
  "linked_positions": [
    "CHQ-P-2026-014",
    "CHQ-P-2026-015"
  ],
  "linked_evidence": [
    "CHQ-EX-2026-019",
    "CHQ-P-2026-014",
    "CHQ-P-2026-015"
  ],
  "falsification_condition": "Across two consecutive quarters, no confirmed vulnerability or incident shows compromise of a management layer propagating authority across downstream systems, AND independent evaluation demonstrates that compromise of one management component is contained from the distributed systems it controls.",
  "evidence_count": 3,
  "last_reinforced": "2026-05-04",
  "linked_assumptions": [
    "A-032"
  ],
  "linked_constraints": [],
  "rating": "CONFIRMED",
  "outlook": "Accumulating",
  "watch": "none",
  "escalation_criterion": "New confirmed-exploitation entry in a declared sub-class",
  "deescalation_criterion": "Two consecutive quarterly cycles with no new confirmed-exploitation entry across the declared sub-classes",
  "rating_as_of": "2026-09-22",
  "rating_source": "Structural Condition Report Issue 39",
  "next_review": "2026-09-29",
  "aliases": [
    "Management Plane Concentration"
  ],
  "name_history": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-22",
      "from": "Management Plane Concentration",
      "to": "Edge and Management-Plane Compromise",
      "ground": "Aligned to the name published on the weekly Structural Condition board since July 2026 (DM decision 2026-09-22). Definition unchanged."
    }
  ]
}
```