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Security misconfigurations are among the most familiar problems in cybersecurity, and still among the least honestly addressed. Everyone agrees they matter. Everyone can point to examples. D...

For years, security teams operated under an implicit assumption: finding serious flaws was hard, slow, and expensive. That assumption shaped everything downstream. Detection stacks grew. Tri...

For decades, engineering leaders have understood the dangers of technical debt. Deferred maintenance, temporary workarounds, and accumulated complexity eventually slow innovation and become ...

Security teams love metrics. They track vulnerability counts, patch compliance rates, incident volumes, endpoint coverage, and compliance scores. Yet many organizations overlook a metric tha...

If you are a security professional running CrowdStrike or SentinelOne, you already know the value of extended detection and response (XDR). What EDR started on individual devices, XDR brough...

Picture this: it's Monday morning, and your security team opens the latest report.Ten thousand findings.Some are unpatched vulnerabilities. Others are compliance violations, unauthorized app...

In cybersecurity, we tend to focus on the dramatic. Nation-state actors, zero-day exploits, advanced persistent threats, AI-powered attacks.

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...

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.

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 16, 2025, the global cybersecurity community came alarmingly close to losing a foundational pillar of its vulnerability management infrastructure: the MITRE CVE program. With fundin...

We've created a short 6-question quiz overviewing the current state of affairs with respect to enterprise cybersecurity. The quiz is designed to offer a quick, dare we say fun, reprieve from...

In the fight for sustained security, operators rely on a variety of tools and technologies to help get the job done — but without strategic alignment, consistent oversight, and proper integr...

As Thanksgiving approaches, it’s a fitting time to pause and reflect on our seldom- celebrated cyber victories. In an industry where success often goes unnoticed because it looks like “nothi...

Device configurations are one of the most important elements of your organizational security today. Why? For starters, security misconfigurations are one of the most critical threats you’ll ...

After a CVE is published, the race is on. Often a good amount of time passes before any patches are issued. Of course, sometimes the patch never comes. Best case scenario, patches are releas...

The cyber threat landscape has been significantly heightened by the emergence of LockBit 2.0, an advanced and pernicious form of ransomware.

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

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...

It's often said that Linux is a more secure OS compared to other OSs in the market. While that's not incorrect, one shouldn't be tempted to think that it Linux is bulletproof.

Myth: “IPv6 Security enhancements (such as IPsec) makes it safer than IPv4” Truth: IPsec is an end-to-end security mechanism, providing authentication and encryption on the network layer.

Earlier this week, a new zero day arrived, it is called Follina (MS Office CVE-2022-30190) and impacts any organization using Microsoft Office.

It’s been a while since FireEye first announced that they were victim of the now infamous SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack. It's gone down in history as one of the most sophisticated and far r...

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...