Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

You face more signals than your SOC can triage and more lateral movement than your legacy rules can see. Signature-only controls miss new techniques, while manual triage slows response. The gap between “alert created” and “incident contained” widens when you can’t separate real risk from noise. Adversaries exploit encrypted channels, low-and-slow exfiltration, and living-off-the-land tools that look like normal activity. Missed weak signals become major incidents.

The APT group known as Librarian Ghouls has managed to infiltrate the networks of technical universities and industrial companies in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan without arousing suspicion. How did the gang get inside? By using legitimate logins and moving laterally through internal networks, relying on legitimate access credentials without generating alerts.

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and Web Application & API Protection (WAAP) platforms are designed to stop attacks before they reach your applications. Yet many organizations fall into a dangerous comfort zone. They deploy a WAF, leave it in monitor mode for months, or configure environments in ways that allow attackers to bypass the WAF entirely and reach origin servers directly.

On September 17, 2025, WatchGuard released fixes for a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CVE-2025-9242) in the iked process of WatchGuard Fireware OS, which powers their Firebox firewall appliances. This flaw allows a remote unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary code and affects both the mobile user VPN with IKEv2 and the branch office VPN with IKEv2 when configured with a dynamic gateway peer.

The cybersecurity perimeter is gone. In its place, a far more resilient framework has emerged: Zero Trust Networking (ZTN). This security model assumes no transaction is automatically permitted. Every connection, request, and data flow must be verified continuously. Learn how Elastic and Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) enable a security posture built on constant verification, rapid response, and adaptive trust.

Every single-vendor SASE provider claims convergence, cloud-native design, advanced security, Zero Trust, and AI readiness. That’s the baseline. What enterprises need to know is how those claims hold up after deployment. Most head to Gartner Peer Insights as part of their recon because real-world feedback is the best reality check. Gartner is arguably the most recognized analyst in tech, trusted by thousands of organizations for impartial, considered research.

The Forward Networks platform creates a complete digital twin of your network—but the power of that data multiplies when it’s accessible via API. Whether you’re pushing insights into dashboards, validating changes before rollout, or automating ticket generation, the API puts your network state into your workflows.