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WatchGuard

Demystifying the Alphabet Soup That Is Detection and Response

Mar 9, 2026 By Ricardo Arroyo In WatchGuard
It’s impossible to walk into a tradeshow these days without getting blasted by a wall of acronyms. Everywhere you look, vendors are cramming two to four perfectly serviceable words into a string of capital letters arranged to sound cooler than they actually are. This wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t routinely derail meetings, product decisions, and sometimes whole strategies.
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5 Ways Managed Security Services Protect Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

5 Ways Managed Security Services Protect Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Mar 6, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Cybersecurity has become a major concern for organizations of every size. However, small and mid-sized businesses often face a unique challenge: they must protect their systems and data without the large internal security teams that many enterprises rely on. At the same time, cybercriminals increasingly target smaller organizations because they may have fewer resources dedicated to cybersecurity.
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armo

AI-Aware Threat Detection for Cloud Workloads: 4 Attack Chains Most Security Stacks Miss

Mar 3, 2026 By Yossi Ben Naim In ARMO
Your security stack was built for workloads that follow predictable code paths. AI agents don’t. They interpret prompts, generate code on the fly, invoke tools dynamically, and escalate privileges in ways no developer anticipated — all as part of normal operation. The signals that indicate a compromise in a traditional container are indistinguishable from an AI agent doing its job. And most detection tools can’t tell the difference. This isn’t a theoretical gap.
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Corelight

Black Hat Europe 2025: Lessons from the NOC

Feb 27, 2026 By Mark Overholser In Corelight
With the holiday season all wrapped up (pun definitely intended), I finally have time to sit down and digest what we saw in the network traffic at Black Hat Europe 2025 while working alongside the other Network Operations Center (NOC) partners: Arista, Cisco, Jamf, and Palo Alto Networks. As usual, there is a mix of the expected, a dash of the unexpected, and some lessons for newcomers and greybeards alike. Let’s get into it.
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Episode 9 - Federal Cyber Defense: Legacy Debt, Cloud Shifts, and Network Truth

Feb 26, 2026 By Corelight In Corelight
Richard Bejtlich sits down with Jean Schaffer, Corelight’s Federal CTO, to discuss the unique hurdles facing government agencies in an era of escalating state-sponsored threats. Jean highlights the persistent challenge of legacy IT infrastructure and the "technical debt" that complicates modernization efforts across the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and the civilian sector. The conversation explores the strategic shift toward cloud adoption as a means to decommission vulnerable on-premise hardware and the evolving "whole of nation" defense strategy that requires deeper public-private partnerships.
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Stopping Real-World Attacks: Lessons from the Cyber Frontlines

Feb 26, 2026 By Sophos In Sophos
We went live to break down insights from 661 real‑world incidents remediated by Sophos X‑Ops, as detailed in the Sophos Active Adversary Report 2026. Host Susie Evershed and Sophos Senior Incident Response Analyst Hilary Wood unpacked the key trends shaping today’s threat landscape, including the continued dominance of identity‑driven attacks and the prevention steps that still made the biggest difference.
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