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As organizations embrace DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery, their greater dependency on third-party components can introduce security risks. Because malware can infiltrate an environment during development, it’s important to check for it ahead of deployment.

As most security teams know, vulnerabilities often steal the limelight with sensational headlines and zero-day exploits. However, lurking beneath the surface are misconfigurations — overlooked risks that can leave even well-protected systems exposed. Addressing these configuration errors is essential. Security configuration assessment (SCA), also known as configuration management, is the process of discovering unsafe configuration settings.

Fact: An organization of any size has employees that receive email. Fact: Threat actors, with the help of apps like ChatGPT, are becoming more efficient at creating compelling phishing emails. Fact: The law of averages mandates an attack will succeed when a staffer is fooled and opens a malicious email or clicks on the wrong link. Fact: A robust email security strategy, which includes a Secure Email Gateway, is a must to protect against email-borne attacks.

Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and persistent cyber threats for individuals and organizations. Modern attacks use a growing arsenal of deceptive techniques that bypass traditional secure email gateways (SEGs) and email authentication measures, targeting organizations, employees, and vendors.

In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, traditional reactive security approaches are no longer sufficient. This reality led Gartner to introduce Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to shift organizations’ mindset from reactive firefighting to proactive threat management through five critical phases: This structured approach revolutionizes how organizations secure their cloud environments. But to succeed, CTEM demands specialized tools designed for modern cloud complexities.

The External Attack Surface Management (EASM) domain is rapidly growing in importance for businesses across the globe. Organizations must strive to understand the true scope of their attack surface as seen through the eyes of a potential hacker. This is a foundational step in any risk program that CISOs are implementing.

In Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), risk assessment acts as the central thread that ties all components together, turning raw threat intelligence, vulnerability detection, and external attack surface monitoring into actionable mitigation strategies.

When thinking about cybersecurity, we envision malicious actors working in dark basements, honing their tools to invent cunning new ways to breach our defenses. While this is a clear and present danger, it's also important to understand that another hazard is lurking much closer to home - the insider threat. These attacks have devastated entities in all sectors, with severe repercussions. These incidents can vary from straightforward acts of fraud or theft to more elaborate sabotage attempts.

enabling businesses to proactively uncover vulnerabilities that could otherwise be exploited by threat actors. In this article, we set out what threat-led pen testing is, how it relates to the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the testing requirements included as part of the new EU regulation.