Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Reflecting on 2025, the word we keep returning to is trust. We talk about it a lot at Vanta because it's the foundation our customers operate on. ‍ Last year, that felt more true than ever. The bar for trust keeps rising. Regulations intensified. Threats evolved faster. Customers and investors asked harder questions. And in an era defined by AI, trust is no longer a checkpoint—it’s a continuous system that has to work every day. ‍ That’s the mission that drives us.

There’s a particular flavor of skepticism that shows up whenever someone suggests using Let’s Encrypt. The security team crosses their arms. “Free certificates? For production? We’re a serious organization. We use Sectigo.” I get it. You’ve been buying certificates from the same vendors for twenty years. They send you invoices, you pay them, certificates appear. It feels responsible, and free feels like a trap. But is it?

Cloud backup has become one of the simplest and most effective ways to protect your Mac's data, because it stores your files in secure data centers, from where you can restore your data whenever needed in just a few clicks. It literally protects you from losing all your cherished memories like photos, videos, and important documents due to a cyberattack, natural disaster, or hardware failure.

Choosing the best cybersecurity software is easier said than done, especially with the countless options on the market that promise us a rich feature set, astonishing effectiveness, and low prices. However, things are not always as advertised by vendors, and the real problem is that we only realize this after purchasing the product.

The Securonix Threat Research team has analyzed a multi-stage Windows malware campaign tracked as SHADOW#REACTOR. The infection chain follows a tightly orchestrated execution path: an obfuscated VBS launcher executed via wscript.exe invokes a PowerShell downloader, which retrieves fragmented, text-based payloads from a remote host. These fragments are reconstructed into encoded loaders, decoded in memory by a .NET Reactor–protected assembly, and used to fetch and apply a remote Remcos configuration.

As organizations worldwide recalibrate their operations in the wake of unprecedented change, remote work has emerged not simply as a fleeting trend but as a mainstay of modern business. For compliance experts and leaders alike, this shift has introduced a complex interplay of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) challenges and opportunities.

Big changes to HIPAA are coming in February 2026 including new rules on how sensitive health data is handled, and updates to the required patient privacy notices. IT teams will play a key role in making sure those protections are actually enforced.

DevOps teams did not sign up to be security teams. But if you run repos, CI/CD, cloud roles, SaaS apps, integrations, or backups, you operate the systems attackers lean on. Most breaches are not flashy. They start with routine failures: a token left in a repo, MFA not enforced, an overprivileged API key that never expires, or backups that are deletable by the same admin identity. Attackers do not need to “break in” if they can log in.

When most security teams think about insider risk, they immediately picture the malicious actor: the disgruntled employee downloading a customer list before quitting, or the rogue developer leaking source code to a competitor.

MITRE ATLAS has become a critical resource for cybersecurity leaders navigating the rapidly evolving world of AI-enabled systems.Traditional threat models are built for human-initiated workflows, APIs, and infrastructure, so they are no longer sufficient to describe modern AI attacks..