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By Cassy van Eeden
Higher education institutions are the most targeted sector for cyberattacks. Yet the teams responsible for managing that risk often face a structural disadvantage: they’re accountable for a vendor ecosystem they can’t fully see. Academic autonomy and the scale of university operations mean that vendors enter the institution through departments, research groups, and administrative teams before InfoSec has full visibility. This challenge is built into how higher education operates.
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By Cassy van Eeden
Higher education institutions don’t run on a single vendor ecosystem. They run on dozens of overlapping ones. Teaching, research, identity, payments, student services, cloud infrastructure, alumni engagement, and campus operations all rely on different third-party vendors. These often enter the institution through departments and administrative teams before InfoSec becomes aware of them. This is the operational reality that higher education TPRM software addresses.
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By Lance Turner
A threat intelligence platform (TIP) is the software layer that bridges the gap between raw threat data and your team's security decisions. It aggregates signals from open, deep, and dark web sources, normalizes indicators of compromise (IOCs), enriches them with context like reputation scores and malware family attribution, and maps adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) so analysts can act instead of investigating.
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By Nicholas Sollitto
First made famous by Bear Bryant in the 1970s, “defense wins championships” has since become a popular sports adage that’s at times overused. But when it comes to the sprawling attack surface of modern athletic events, like the tri-hosted 2026 World Cup or the Super Bowl, that cliché applies just as much to cybersecurity as it does to the playing field. Modern sports franchises are no longer just athletic clubs.
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By Edward Kost
Sales enablement is the process of equipping sales teams with the content, tools, training, and information they need to engage buyers effectively and close deals. Most organizations scope it to pitch decks, competitive battlecards, CRM workflows, and onboarding programs — and in doing so, they overlook a component that quietly costs them deals: the security review.
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By Lance Turner
In 2023, a single-file-transfer vulnerability enabled attackers to access hundreds of organizations simultaneously. Not only did they steal data, they immediately posted it to dark web extortion sites before most victims even knew they'd been hit. It was the MOVEit Transfer breach, and it exposed a gap that most corporate security stacks still haven't closed: the difference between stopping an attacker inside your network and finding your data after it's already left your network.
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By Lance Turner
Every security team runs vulnerability scans. It’s the follow-up questions that cause headaches: Which of these 12,000 findings matter, who owns the fix, and how do we prove it held? Staring at a massive spreadsheet of identical "Critical" alerts while chasing down overstretched infrastructure teams isn't only tedious, it's a guaranteed path to burnout. That exhausting gap between finding flaws and getting them fixed is exactly where most security programs stall.
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By Shane Moosa
Microsoft’s approach of generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally redefined corporate productivity. The "Copilot" brand has become synonymous with workplace efficiency, promising to accelerate everything from writing software to summarizing executive board meetings. For a security analyst, however, this widespread integration introduces significant challenges to the attack surface they manage.
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By Shane Moosa
As a security analyst, your intake queue has likely been overtaken by requests to approve Claude. While that used to be a straightforward decision, Anthropic’s rapid deployment of agentic utilities, such as Claude Co-Work and Claude Code, has created a dangerous blind spot for SecOps, as these tools expand far beyond engineering. The core crisis lies with non-developers.
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By Shane Moosa
The writing is on the wall: artificial intelligence has moved past the experimental phase and has cemented its place as a core component of the modern enterprise stack. For CISOs, the playbook of flat firewall blocking is ineffective—bans don’t halt adoption, they simply drive usage underground into unmanaged shadow streams. To protect corporate assets without stalling business velocity, security leaders are seeing the need to shift from blind obstruction to active, structured guidance.
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By UpGuard
Eliminate manual handoffs. Learn how to build a self-executing third-party risk program that synchronizes internal teams across your organization’s tools and workflows to drive immediate, policy-aligned outcomes. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The browser is the primary attack surface of 2026. See how to enforce real-time Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and credential integrity to neutralize unauthorized data egress and password reuse in-session. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The Onboarding Blueprint: Engineering a Gold-Standard Process Learn how to leverage the Vendor Onboarding Portal to stop chasing shadow IT and mitigate risk before exposure. Our Customer Education team will provide a tactical framework to automate vendor tiering and transform manual bottlenecks into a self-executing intake engine. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The Supply Chain Uplift: Driving Ecosystem Maturity Stop acting as an auditor and start acting as a partner. Learn how Combe Inc. uses real-time telemetry to identify vendor risks before they are reported, creating a positive feedback loop that hardens the entire supply chain. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The MCP Exposure: Governing the Newest Entry Point, MCP has created a silent governance gap in the AI ecosystem. Learn how to gain the visibility needed to detect brand impersonation, identify malicious servers, and vet AI agent connections to prevent unauthorized data access. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The MCP Exposure: Governing the Newest Entry Point MCP has created a silent governance gap in the AI ecosystem. Learn how to gain the visibility needed to detect brand impersonation, identify malicious servers, and vet AI agent connections to prevent unauthorized data access. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The MCP Exposure: Governing the Newest Entry Point MCP has created a silent governance gap in the AI ecosystem. Learn how to gain the visibility needed to detect brand impersonation, identify malicious servers, and vet AI agent connections to prevent unauthorized data entry.
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By UpGuard
The Zero-Lag Posture See how UpGuard is moving beyond static defense to a model that identifies emerging vectors like MCP servers and neutralizes browser-based threats in real time. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
In 2026, a slow assessment is a security risk. Every day spent in manual handoffs is a day of exposure for your organization. Join us at UpGuard Summit to see how our new Risk Automations engine transforms TPRM from a static checklist into an autonomous system. We will show you how to automate everything from vendor follow-ups to instant Jira routing for IT and Legal.
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By UpGuard
How many new vendors did your team engage with today? If you’re looking at your official procurement list, the answer might be zero. But if you’re looking at employee behavior, the reality is likely much higher. Find out more about the shadow supply chain in our most recent research report: Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
You understand the risks that third party vendors pose to your business, and you're ready to do something about it. What are the capabilities you need to understand your cyber risk, manage your vendors, and avoid data breaches?
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By UpGuard
The fact that one has to "make a case" for Microsoft in the DevOps sphere puts them at a disadvantage, especially competing against major open source options with large community bases and proven performance. But, moving forward, one can expect the gap between Microsoft and other tools to close further, as they continue pressing their business in this direction.
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By UpGuard
Perhaps your organization is looking to make a transition from traditional IT operations and development practices to DevOps, or you're looking to realign your career path with DevOps to position yourself more favorably to future opportunities. Whatever your motivations are, this eBook will provide you with foundation knowledge for boosting your career with DevOps.
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By UpGuard
ServiceNow® customers optimizing their IT service delivery and management processes require deeper context and detail level behind IT asset changes--information the leading help desk automation and incident reporting platform does not provide. In this report you'll learn how UpGuard fills this visibility and awareness gap, keeping ServiceNow® in line with the true state of your environment.
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By UpGuard
Cybersecurity is officially dead. Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software and services rose to $73.7 billion in 2016 from $68.2 billion a year earlier, according to researcher IDC. This number is expected to approach $90 billion in 2018.
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By UpGuard
Selecting a security provider is no easy feat-it includes months of designing a company's security strategy, evaluating different solutions, budgeting accordingly, and assuring stakeholders the investment will pay off by keeping their business safe.
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By UpGuard
DevOps and ITIL should be compared with an eye towards the problem you're trying to solve, with a focus on the tangible benefits you and your team would see from using each.
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By UpGuard
With the enterprise so dependent on technology and digitized assets, how can it prevent data-related disasters from sinking the business? The answer is by taking a new approach to managing cyber risk as a function of business risk at large. McKinsey calls this "Digital Resilience", but it can simply be thought of as conducting business safely in today's connected environments.
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By UpGuard
Software engineering is changing and DevOps is at the heart of it. An organization's ability to be responsive to the business requires better collaboration, communication, and integration across IT.
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By UpGuard
There is no doubt that the DevOps movement has gone mainstream. When even IBM and HP are dedicating sites to it there is no longer any question. If we were to place it on the Gartner Hype Cycle even the most devoted proponents would have to admit that it's rapidly approaching the "Peak of Inflated Expectations".
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