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Modern cybersecurity faces a strange paradox: the stronger organizations make their defenses, the more complexity they introduce into their environments. And complexity is where risk thrives...

Just how much damage can one misconfiguration cause? At PDS Health, the answer was stark: a single misconfiguration threatened 4,600 PCs and disrupted daily operations.

Cybersecurity is undergoing a fundamental shift. What was once primarily about preventing corporate espionage, hooliganism, and opportunistic criminals has now taken on geopolitical stakes. ...

You can’t protect what you can’t see – and in cybersecurity, blind spots are liabilities. In healthcare environments especially, networks are vast, dynamic ecosystems of endpoints, servers, ...

For years, cybersecurity optimized for one thing – seeing risk. More alerts. Smarter scores. Better dashboards. Yet exposure continues to grow.

In 1865, Walt Whitman used a storm-tossed ship as a metaphor for a nation under strain. For today’s security and IT leaders, managing thousands of endpoints can feel strikingly similar.

Today, AI is everywhere. It is embedded in coding environments, operating systems, browsers, collaboration platforms, and desktop assistants. But it's not only baked into tools and technolog...

Security leaders invest heavily in the front door: phishing defenses, malware detection, patch management, the works. And then they think they’re safe. But it’s the misconfigurations quietly...

If a threat falls in the SOC and no one ties it to revenue, does it really make a sound? That’s the challenge security leaders face every day: finding an impactful way to translate cyber ris...

Picture the legendary Metropolitan Opera House on opening night. The air hums with anticipation as elegantly dressed guests take their seats, each ticket granting access to one specific spot...

In cybersecurity, the smallest missteps can lead to the biggest breaches. Take British Airways: a global airline worth over $17 billion, with robust systems and sophisticated infrastructure ...

Active Directory (AD) is the powerhouse of the enterprise — the central hub where identity, access, and control converge. Yet despite its critical role, AD generally flies under the radar un...

As backpacks get packed and classrooms fill up, it’s the perfect time for businesses to go back to school, too. Not for algebra—but for cybersecurity. While today’s digital threats are evolv...

In the world of construction, complexity is the norm. From project sites scattered across geographies to legacy OT systems integrated with modern cloud environments, these sectors rely on a ...

Security teams are constantly walking a tightrope — enabling growth while minimizing risk. Most eyes are on the usual suspects: ransomware gangs, zero-day exploits, phishing campaigns. But t...

Every organization has its unfinished business. For too many, it's SMBv1. Even years after Microsoft deprecated it, SMBv1 still lingers in enterprise networks — often out of sight, but not o...

Is good security good business? When something goes wrong, it’s easy to draw the connection: bad security leads to breaches, downtime, and damage. But what if catastrophe isn’t looming?

Configuration security is a foundational piece of the cybersecurity puzzle — yet one that too many organizations continue to overlook.

Things just don't seem to stay how they're meant to. It's a problems familiar to most people in the world of enterprise IT and Security. And in 2005 it was a problem for the Burnet Institute...

Myths and misconceptions can be dangerous, especially in the world of cybersecurity. From treating group policies like gym memberships to the conviction that it just won't happen to you, the...

Not every risk has a CVE, and not all weaknesses can be patched. Misconfigurations, overly permissive access settings, unsafe protocols, and unenforced policies often fall outside traditiona...

After decades taking the same (largely reactive) tack as the rest of the world, Japan is now flipping the script and perhaps setting a new cyber standard for others to emulate, passing a law...

Cyber hygiene refers to the regular, ongoing practices and foundational safeguards that implemented to proactively maintain the health and security of an organization's digital environments ...

When it comes to reducing enterprise threat exposure, configuration hardening isn’t a new idea — but it’s finally getting the focused attention it deserves.

The sheer volume of security tools in today’s enterprise IT environments disguise a critical truth: more tools don’t equal better protection. This was among the key takeaways from Gartner®'s...

Browsers today are an essential component of any enterprise work environment — where employees log in, collaborate, and interact with sensitive data across countless applications. And while ...

It’s a familiar dilemma: weighing the need for security against the need to "keep things running." At PDS Health, it's a tension that runs equally through strategy and day-to-day operations.

For those operating Windows 10 based machines, the clock's running out. With Windows 10 EoSL (End of Service Life) set for October 14, 2025, technical support — including critical security p...

From compromised endpoints to disrupted workflows, misconfigurations are one of the leading causes of disruptions in complex IT environments.

In today’s complex digital landscape, the importance of configuration security audits cannot be overstated.

Please join us as we take you on a journey through the looking glass and into the realm of haunted hacks. Here, misconfigured endpoints lay in wait, threatening to jump out from behind every...

In evaluating endpoint posture and network integrity, configuration audits are essential. At the same time, conducting an effective audit is easier said than done.

Endpoint configurations are essential to good security. That’s always been the case, but it rings even truer with each passing year. In some ways, endpoint configurations are your first line...

For most businesses, IT and security teams go about their work mostly unnoticed. Some would say that’s by design. Like the stage hands that help make a good show possible and keep everything...

On July 19th 2024, CrowdStrike pushed an update to its Microsoft Windows agent. (Linux and macOS computers were not affected.) Considered something of an industry standard, the agent is wide...

In cybersecurity, it’s not always the initial breach that causes the most damage — it’s what happens next. Attackers today rarely stop at a single point of entry.

At a time when cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated, understanding and implementing device hardening is more crucial than ever. Device hardening is an extensive and crucial process i...

In the fast-paced world of technology, where innovation is a constant, it’s crucial to ensure that our operating systems remain secure.

In the digital age, data protection and security are paramount, especially within the healthcare sector. The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK recognizes the importance of safeguarding...

Threat actors are taking advantage of misconfigurations on various devices, such as PCs, laptops, and servers. So much so that according to Microsoft, 80% of successful ransomware attacks ar...

Cyber Essentials is a cyber security certification that has been designed by the government to make it simple for organizations to protect themselves against common cyber threats.

Managing configurations, patching, and updating system controls is one of the most notably difficult things that any CISO has to deal with. Yet it is also among the most critical, as systems...

Most often I have found that the issue of addressing the problem is more pressing than simply identifying the threat. We have a massive, multi billion dollar, industry dedicated solely to “s...

It starts with good intentions — a temporary TLS downgrade for a legacy app, a local admin account to solve a quick issue, or a service account exempted from MFA to speed up automation. Seem...

Do threats against your Active Directory keep you up at night? Honestly, they should. Active Directory is critical as it controls access to your systems and data.

In the modern Microsoft environment, NTLM (“NT Lan Manager”) is a security threat you should keep an eye on. Especially when it’s about the cloud environment, Microsoft warns you to deny it ...

Attacks are becoming more sophisticated, hackers are becoming smarter, and so should be the defenders. The attacker eyeing your organization is looking for the misconfiguration that will let...

In my previous article I wrote about the importance of monitoring all endpoints in the organization for the existence of cached credentials. In this post, I'm going to explain what you can d...

Configuration is a routine part of setting up and maintaining IT environments, serving as the fundamental building block that ensures systems run smoothly and align with organizational needs...