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In August 2023, while thousands of students at William Jewell College were hauling mini-fridges and textbooks into dorms, the invisible, digital heart of the campus was flatlining. There was no internet. No email. Even the HVAC system, tied to a compromised network, had shut down in the sweltering Missouri heat. The culprit? LockBit, a prolific ransomware syndicate that just hit Boeing days prior.

Welcome to vulnerability management's big bang. If it feels like your security team is running a marathon on a treadmill set to a permanent incline of 12.0 with 50lb sandbags tied around each ankle, you're in good company. We have officially entered the era of the Great Vulnerability Acceleration. To put this recent synthetic bloom into perspective, consider this: in the last five years, the cybersecurity community has identified and recorded over 150,000 new vulnerabilities.

LevelBlue has been named the Growth and Innovation Leader in the Frost Radar: Managed Security Services in the Americas, 2026 report, a recognition that reflects our continued focus on helping organizations simplify cybersecurity operations, strengthen resilience, and navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape.

The Gartner Market Share Analysis: Security Software, Worldwide, 2025 report mentions Keeper Security as the second fastest-growing security company worldwide, trailing only Google. Keeper grew revenue 53.42% to reach $143 million. We believe this is a number that reflects more than strong sales; it reflects the direction enterprise security is heading. The full report is available on the Gartner site for subscribers.

In modern enterprise environments, identity has become the primary attack vector, but many organizations lack visibility into who has privileged access and whether that access is being misused. Without proper oversight, attackers may exploit legitimate credentials without triggering traditional security controls. According to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, credentials were involved in the majority of breaches analyzed.

As hybrid work becomes the standard, organizations need collaboration tools that simplify file access while maintaining governance and control over business-critical content. To better meet those needs, Egnyte expanded its Microsoft Teams integration to help your teams work more efficiently.

Cybersecurity operations were already becoming increasingly difficult to scale long before AI-driven and increasingly agentic attacks began accelerating the threat landscape. Customer environments continued expanding across endpoints, identities, cloud services, SaaS applications, remote users, and operational infrastructure. More environments created more telemetry, more coordination, and more operational complexity for teams already operating near capacity.

This week, Connie Loizos, editor in chief of TechCrunch, sat down backstage with Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, for a piece on the state of enterprise AI security. The interview is worth reading in full. Three points in it should reshape how every CISO is thinking about the next twelve months.

A few weeks ago I was on a call with a financial services customer who had moved a credit-decisioning model into production on Red Hat OpenShift AI. They were happy with the platform. They were less happy with the answer they had for a question their risk officer had just asked: “If an attacker encrypts the cluster tomorrow, what do we need to bring back to be inference-ready by Monday morning?” The team started listing the obvious things — the model artifact, the serving endpoint.

The banking industry stands at a critical intersection of technology, security, and customer experience. As financial institutions navigate massive data volumes and increasingly sophisticated threats, they’re also trying to survive the digital transformation that’s made customer expectations higher than ever and trust more fragile than before.