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The landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is evolving rapidly, particularly in the United States, where the dynamics of these deals are shaped by numerous factors, including cybersecurity. Within this sector, vulnerability management plays a critical role in ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of digital assets, which are often crucial in M&A transactions.

Today, I'm absolutely thrilled to announce our newest innovation in the security space: our new CLI tool, Greybeard. After years of giving polite, professional security advice, we've realized what developers really need is an ornery virtual security expert who tells it like it is.

Despite advancements in API security, access control vulnerabilities, such as broken object-level authentication (BOLA) and broken function-level authentication (BFLA), remain almost impossible to detect. This blog will explore why these vulnerabilities are so difficult to detect, the limitations of current security tools, and the implications for businesses relying on API-driven applications. It will also discuss potential approaches for improving API security posture.

On March 19, 2025, the CISA issued a warning about the active exploitation of CVE-2017-12637, a directory traversal vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS Java. This vulnerability, originally patched in 2017, has resurfaced due to incomplete mitigations, leading to increased risks for organizations using outdated or misconfigured SAP environments.

The security industry has reached a turning point with AI. It’s no longer just hype, as AI has now become a critical part of day-to-day cybersecurity operations. According to The Rise of AI-Powered Vulnerability Management, the latest report from Seemplicity and Dark Reading, 86% of security teams now use some form of AI in their security stack. More than half of respondents say AI is already crucial to their work.