Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

London, 21st April - Obrela has released its Digital Universe Report 2025, revealing a significant shift in the global cyber threat landscape as attackers move away from high-volume attacks toward more targeted, stealth-driven techniques focused on identity, access and persistence.

Third-party development partners offer real advantages: faster delivery, specialised expertise, and lower costs than building an in-house team. They also expand your attack surface in ways most organisations never fully account for. When an external team builds or modifies your systems, they bring with them their own tools, practices, access levels, and vulnerabilities. The question is not whether that creates risk. It is whether your organisation is managing it deliberately or leaving it to chance.

Most security measures are built on the assumption that if something is configured correctly, it is secure. But there is a big difference between "configured" and "able to withstand an attack" - a gap that cannot be seen without practical testing. Penetration testing is not just another item on a compliance checklist; it is a way to get an honest and realistic answer to the question that truly matters to a business: can an attacker reach what is most important to us?