Black Hat 2024 has come and gone. The Nucleus team attending the show has (mostly) caught up on their sleep, which can mean one thing – a look back at the conference and our impressions of the event.

This week, Nucleus can add another accolade to a growing list, being listed as number 267 on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 5000 fastest-growing companies in America. We are proud of the growth we’ve achieved as a company and the potential for the future at Nucleus. Looking more closely at the results, we are the fourth fastest-growing security company on the list. As many people know, the cybersecurity and technology market has been tumultuous recently.

In 2024, the Australian government introduced PSPF Direction 001-2024 in recognition of the potential threats posed by Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) on technology assets and GovTech (government technology operations). As part of the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), PSPF 001-2024 is a crucial step in evaluating and mitigating cyber risks associated with foreign interference in the procurement and maintenance of technology assets.

A critical problem for security and legal professionals who manage supply chain risk is that cybersecurity risks are dynamic and always shifting. You have done your due diligence and selected a vendor with strong cybersecurity controls – but how can you guarantee that your vendor maintains this type of security hygiene and doesn’t become a target and a “weak link” in your supply chain?

SecurityScorecard is excited to announce that we are now an AWS OMNIA partner. This unlocks a critical opportunity for the 90,000 buying organizations that make up the OMNIA partner network to reduce and manage Supply Chain Cyber Risks. The third party attack surface is a fast growing risk vector and SecurityScorecard offers an industry leading solution to help organizations combat these threats.

No executive wants to be blindsided by risks that should have been reasonably anticipated, especially the CEO, CFO, and board members. In the CISO Desk Reference Guide, Gary Hayslip, Bill Bonney, and I wrote extensively about how CISOs play a critical role in contextualizing digital and cyber risks to the organization’s broader enterprise risk management practices.

Cybersecurity methods are usually focused on protecting an organization from external risk factors, but insider attacks can be just as dangerous and costly as those that originate outside an organization. In fact, insider threats pose serious security risks because they typically involve individuals with authorized access to the organization’s systems, data, or networks.

ServiceNow and SecurityScorecard have been longtime strategic partners, helping mutual customers measure and manage cyber risk. Today we’re highlighting the next phase of our partnership and innovation to help customers tackle the complex challenges associated with managing cyber risk in the third party ecosystem. Organizations struggle with prioritization, resource constraints, and the need to act quickly when responding to threats.

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of our integration with the ServiceNow Vendor Response Management (VRM) offering. Riscosity’s integration with ServiceNow empowers security teams with the insights and tools needed to achieve their security goals while still using their existing workflows in ServiceNow VRM.