Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

If you’re a security analyst, you know the work never stops. Even after your team completes an extensive vendor risk assessment and remediation, you still need to write a report to share your findings with key stakeholders. And this work isn’t a walk in the park by any means. Writing a risk assessment report often requires hours (or even days) of summarizing information, repopulating graphs, and balancing technical details with clarity to cater to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Organizations today move fast, but slow vendor approvals can grind everything to a halt. As companies increasingly rely on third-party vendors, slow vendor approvals create a serious security bottleneck. This slowdown costs organizations valuable time and resources—and leaves them open to security risks. It’s important to cohesively review and approve vendors to manage third-party risk, but organizations should be aware of just how long those approvals take.

Many organizations are discovering that managing cybersecurity in-house is not only costly but also becoming increasingly ineffective and in some case extremely risky for the business. With cyberattacks growing in sophistication and scale all the time, traditional, in-house IT teams can struggle to keep pace with threats, compliance obligations and operational demands. This is where managed security services come in.

Riscosity has made it even easier to prioritize issues where data types are being shared by your Applications with 3rd party vendors by adding Confidence Scores to those data types. Users can focus in on the issues with data types that Riscosity had the highest confidence in determining without worrying about false positives.

In an increasingly interconnected digital world, supply chain security has become a critical concern for European organizations, policymakers, and national defense agencies alike. With adversaries exploiting software dependencies, contractors, and managed service providers (MSPs), the cybersecurity risks embedded within supply chains have never been more significant.

Cyber security threats continue to evolve, but one factor remains consistent: human error is still the greatest risk to modern businesses worldwide. Employees make mistakes, bypass security measures, and fall victim to sophisticated social engineering attacks, leading to devastating data breaches. Despite extensive security awareness training, the reality is that investing more time and money in training isn’t solving the problem.

‍Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) tools are extremely business-savvy investments, particularly for large-scale enterprises that have broad business networks and harness hundreds of cloud-based solutions, offering a detailed, real-time view of an organization's cyber exposure.

As a human risk management platform, we keep a close eye on the evolving threat landscape to help organisations detect and mitigate human cyber risks. The first quarter of 2025 has already revealed critical vulnerabilities, data breaches, and novel attack vectors that highlight the importance of proactive security measures and automated interventions. Here’s a deep dive into the major cyber security events of Q1 and what forward-thinking organisations, like yours, can learn from them.

Most IT audit risk assessments fail because they treat risk as something to mitigate, not leverage. This leads to bloated reports, rigid frameworks, and security initiatives that slow innovation instead of driving it. Risk isn’t just a security concern—it’s a business decision. The best CTOs approach risk like an investment portfolio, with some risks to be minimized, but others that can be accepted or embraced for competitive advantage.

The EU’s NIS2 directive came into force on October 17, 2024. Notis Iliopoulos, VP MRC. Obrela explores the latest cyber resilience Directive’s pros and cons and suggests an alternative route the UK government might consider in developing its cybersecurity framework post-Brexit. The NIS2 Directive, which builds upon the original Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, aims to enhance the cybersecurity posture of critical sectors across the European Union.