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Changed Block Tracking Guide for Virtual Machines

Changed block tracking (CBT) technology is essential for efficient virtual machine backups across virtualization platforms, yet persistent technical issues continue to create significant backup challenges. A notable rise in CBT-related problems spanning multiple hypervisors has led many IT teams to reassess their traditional backup strategies and explore more reliable alternatives.

Minimizing False Positives: Enhancing Security Efficiency

Organizations waste enormous amounts of time chasing down security alerts that turn out to be nothing. Recent research from May 2025 shows that 70% of a security team's time is spent investigating alerts that are false positives, wasting massive amounts of time in the investigation rather than working on proactive security measures to improve organizational security posture.

Prescription for Protection: Healthcare Industry Observations from CrowdStrike Investigations

The healthcare sector continues to be a prime target for cyber adversaries, with threat actors constantly evolving their tactics to exploit vulnerabilities. Over the past year, CrowdStrike Services responded to a growing number of financially motivated attacks aimed at encrypting data and extorting victims across the healthcare ecosystem.

Machine Identity Management: How to Discover, Manage, and Secure

Machine identities have quietly become the backbone of digital infrastructure, outnumbering human users in most enterprise environments. While they don’t forget passwords or call tech support, they do introduce a unique set of security and operational risks. Unlike human users, machine identities (like service accounts, API keys, bots, and microservices) often operate with highly permissive access rights and weak or nonexistent authorization policies.

The Evolution of Data Loss Prevention: From Perimeter to Insider Risk

Data loss prevention, or DLP as most of us know it, began as a strategy to control how information was stored and moved within organizations. Ultimately the goal was to prevent data from leaving. The premise was simple – identify where sensitive data was stored, define what could or couldn’t happen to it, and enforce those rules through network and endpoint controls. These early DLP tools relied heavily on static content inspection and then blocking or alerting based on pre-configured rules.

Navigating SOC 2 automation: A modern approach to continuous compliance

We once had a mid-market fintech client come to us in the middle of a SOC 2 renewal panic. Their CTO described it as “death by screenshot” – a desperate scramble to gather Slack threads, access logs, and onboarding spreadsheets just to satisfy the auditor’s checklist. They had the right policies. They had the right intentions. What they didn’t have was time.

The AI advantage in first-party risk management

Risk management is evolving at a pace that compels organizations to adopt more advanced technologies. Among these, artificial intelligence is emerging as a leading force in transforming internal oversight practices, particularly in the realm of first-party risk management. The need to manage risks that originate within the organization has prompted leaders to reevaluate and innovate traditional strategies, making AI an indispensable component of modern risk frameworks.

5 Ways Regulatory Changes Are Shaping Data Security Strategies

Today's regulations and info edicts aren't just red tape-they're rewriting the rules of how you protect data, especially as you swim through the web. From breach reporting to global privacy laws, keeping up with compliance updates can help you walk through a smarter, faster security game for your personal and professional interests. This is why, if you're handling and managing sensitive info-or just want to avoid fines and fallout-here's how the latest legal shifts are reshaping how you can secure what matters most.