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Black Friday is retail’s biggest moment—and retail IT’s biggest challenge. Spikes in traffic, strained systems, and the constant fear of outages turn what should be a commercial win into an operational war room. For many retailers, it’s a time of sleepless nights, emergency vendor calls, and systems pushed to their breaking point. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

With the pace of growth in financial services accelerating, fintech is, in real terms, the new normal, not the new disruptor. Cloud technology has fueled this revolution, equipping companies with tools that can be scaled quickly in response to customer demands and market needs, and enabling cost savings that can be passed on to these customers.

Security testing hasn’t just fallen behind—it’s playing the wrong game in a world where product teams ship updates like software streams, testing once a year is akin to locking the doors after the party has ended. It’s not just late; it’s irrelevant. Most orgs still treat pentests like performance reviews: formal, infrequent, and disconnected from the day-to-day reality. But risk doesn’t work on an annual schedule.

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the invisible backbone of everything from mobile banking to cryptocurrency exchanges. These powerful interfaces enable transactions to become frictionless, allowing data to be shared in real-time and services to be integrated in new ways across platforms, thereby transforming the way financial services operate and delivering customer value. But that very interconnectedness that drives innovation also creates new points of risk.

We admit it – we’ve had our heads in the clouds recently. Since we started working with Wiz as one of their integration partners, we’ve been spending even more time thinking about cloud assets. And these assets are everywhere! Gartner predicts double digit growth across all cloud segments in 2025.

Raising the bar for cybersecurity can’t happen in silos. Resilience comes from shared knowledge, mutual support, and proactive partnerships — between public and private sectors, large enterprises and small businesses, academia and industry. In this respect, joining the SOC4SME program to offer free services is not just a gesture — we’re doing it because we believe cybersecurity is a shared responsibility.

WatchGuard is proud to announce we have won the following award(s) from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry's leading electronic information security magazine.

CrowdStrike is expanding the capabilities of CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection and introducing a new offering, SaaS Threat Services, enabling security teams to protect sensitive data across endpoints, cloud environments, and GenAI and SaaS applications. Today’s adversaries are targeting data wherever it resides. As GenAI adoption accelerates, misconfigured applications and unsecured usage create new vectors for data exposure.

MCP rapidly enhances AI capabilities but introduces security challenges through its distributed architecture. Especially, the distributed nature of MCP requires a lot of NHIs and their secrets. Our research shows that MCP is a new source of leaks that already discloses real-world secrets.

In an era where digital frontiers are continuously expanding and evolving, adaptability is critical for Federal, State, and Local Government Departments, and Agencies to secure their infrastructure and sensitive data. Progress and growth strategies must be aligned with defense against growing cyber threats. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and threat detection have emerged as essential strategies for proactively identifying and mitigating cyber risks.