Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Securing Mission-Critical Insurance Systems

In this episode, Dr. Pawan Jawla, Chief Mission Security Officer at Tata AIA, shares what truly keeps security leaders awake at night while protecting mission-critical insurance systems. From the rise of low-cost ransomware and evolving fraud techniques, to meeting Government of India, DCI, and insurance-specific compliance standards. We also explore why security audits should be treated as gap-finding, not fault-finding, the persistent confusion around data ownership inside enterprises, and why, despite massive investment, 95% of organizations still struggle to see ROI from AI.

CVE-2025-10573: Critical Unauthenticated Stored XSS in Ivanti Endpoint Manager

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) tracked as CVE-2025-10573 allows unauthenticated attackers to inject persistent JavaScript into the EPM administrative dashboard. Assigned a CVSS score of 9.6, this vulnerability presents a critical security risk because it enables attackers to hijack administrator sessions and gain full control over managed endpoints.

CVE-2025-66516: Critical XXE Vulnerability Exposes Apache Tika Deployments

A critical XXE vulnerability, CVE-2025-66516, has been discovered in Apache Tika, putting any workflow that processes PDFs at serious risk. A malicious PDF can trigger the exploit through any Tika workflow, silently giving attackers access to sensitive files, internal URLs, cloud metadata, and your internal network. AppTrana blocks these malicious PDFs at the edge, keeping your data and internal systems secure.

CVE-2025-66516: Critical XXE Vulnerability Exposes Apache Tika Deployments

A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-66516 (CVSS 10.0), has been identified in Apache Tika, affecting how the framework processes PDF files containing XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data. The vulnerability resides in tika-core, which means any system using Tika’s default parsing behavior remains vulnerable even if the PDF parser module was previously patched. No special configuration or insecure application code is required; simply ingesting a malicious PDF is enough to trigger the exploit.

React2Shell(CVE-2025-55182): Critical RCE Vulnerability in React Server Components and Next.js

The modern JavaScript ecosystem was shaken this week as Meta, Vercel, Google Cloud, AWS, and leading security researchers revealed two critical issues: CVE-2025-55182 and the downstream Next.js variant CVE-2025-66478. Both are rated CVSS 10 and allow remote code execution (RCE) by exploiting weaknesses in the React Server Components (RSC) “Flight” protocol. The vulnerabilities affect React 19 and all major frameworks embedding the RSC implementation, most notably Next.js 15.x and 16.x.

NIST SP 800-53 r5 Compliance Made Simple with AppTrana

With over 32,000 security incidents reported by U.S. federal agencies in the past year, cyber risks are growing in scale and complexity. NIST SP 800-53 r5 provides a comprehensive framework of security and privacy controls to help organizations manage risk, protect critical systems, and maintain regulatory compliance.

Accelerate Your FedRAMP Journey with AppTrana WAAP

Achieving FedRAMP compliance is complex, but AppTrana WAAP simplifies it. This video explains how AppTrana delivers continuous vulnerability scanning, attack prevention, SIEM-friendly audit logs, real-time incident response, and automated remediation through SwyftComply. Perfect for CISOs, compliance teams, and cloud security leaders preparing for FedRAMP audits.

LLMs, Quantum Computing, and the Top Challenges for CISOs in 2026

Cybersecurity in 2026 is entering its most transformative and volatile phase yet. For CISOs, the landscape is no longer defined only by web, network, and cloud threats. Instead, attackers now target AI/LLM systems, APIs, identity platforms, SaaS ecosystems and supply chains. The surge in attacks across applications, APIs, and GenAI systems indicates that adversaries are scaling faster, using automation, AI-assisted exploitation, and new social engineering vectors.

CVE-2025-54057: Stored XSS Vulnerability in Apache SkyWalking Exposes Monitoring Dashboards to Attackers

Apache SkyWalking is one of the most widely adopted open-source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and observability platforms, trusted by developers and DevOps teams to visualize telemetry, trace distributed systems, and ensure application uptime. However, a recently disclosed vulnerability has revealed that the very dashboards designed to improve visibility could be turned into attack vectors.