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Critical Middleware Vulnerability in Next.js (CVE-2025-29927)

Mar 28, 2025 By Greg Pollock In UpGuard
Researchers have discovered a critical security vulnerability in Next.js that allows attackers to easily bypass middleware authorization measures. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-29927, was discovered by Rachid Allam and Yasser Allam and since assigned a base CVSS score of 9.1. By skipping checks for authorization cookies, attackers can potentially gain access to restricted areas of applications like admin tools and dashboards.
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Corporate Security Trends: How S&P 500 Companies Stay Secure

Mar 26, 2025 By Leah Sadoian In UpGuard
Staying on top of corporate security trends may seem like a hassle, but it actually has great benefits for your organization. Understanding security trends helps businesses benchmark their performance—including within their specific industry—and strengthen their security posture to align with the best performers.
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UpGuard's Revamped Trust Page: Close Deals Faster

Mar 26, 2025 By Jess Hooper In UpGuard
When it comes to closing a sales deal, trust and security are often just as important as the product or service you’re selling — sometimes even more important. The reason is simple. Before bringing you on as a new vendor, customers need to be confident that you’re a safe and secure partner. The challenge is proving your security posture quickly, without dramatically slowing the deal.
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Remediation Made Easy: Reducing Risks and Driving Vendor Action

Mar 26, 2025 By Nicholas Sollitto In UpGuard
Managing the vendor remediation process is no small feat. While on the surface, it might seem like the bulk of the heavy lifting is done once you complete your initial assessment, you (and every other security team on the planet) know this couldn’t be further from the truth. After all, if your team doesn’t constantly track remediation efforts and validate corrective actions, how else are you supposed to ensure vendors effectively mitigate the risks you identified?
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The Cost of False Positives: Why Cybersecurity Accuracy Matters

Mar 19, 2025 By Leah Sadoian In UpGuard
Cybersecurity is a high-stakes landscape, with very real threats of data breaches, malware, and other cyberattacks lurking around the corner. But detecting cyber threats is only half the battle—what happens when the threats you detect aren’t real? Enter the deceiving world of false positives—security alerts that incorrectly identify legitimate activity as malicious. While most security tools are designed to maximize detection, they often sacrifice accuracy in the process. The result?
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Understanding and Securing Exposed Ollama Instances

Mar 19, 2025 By UpGuard Team In UpGuard
Ollama is an emerging open-source framework designed to run large language models (LLMs) locally. While it provides a flexible and efficient way to serve AI models, improper configurations can introduce serious security risks. Many organizations unknowingly expose Ollama instances to the internet, leaving them vulnerable to unauthorized access, data exfiltration, and adversarial manipulation.
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Evidence Analysis: Unlocking Insights for Stronger Security Posture

Mar 13, 2025 By Nicholas Sollitto In UpGuard
Navigating the maze that is vendor-supplied evidence is one of the most time-consuming and frustrating tasks security teams face during the risk assessment process. Imagine spending countless hours chasing down security information from a vendor only to receive a mountain of dense, unstructured (sometimes contradictory) documents. How can you possibly move forward? Security analysts have long dealt with this very problem.
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S&P 500: Which Industries Lead and Lag in Cybersecurity?

Mar 12, 2025 By Leah Sadoian In UpGuard
UpGuard recently published its State of Cybersecurity 2025 | S&P 500 Report, highlighting cybersecurity trends of the leading industries throughout the United States. Alongside reviewing the most impactful incidents of 2024, the report also details which industries are leading (and which are lagging) in their cybersecurity measures and risk management. With growing cyber threats from AI and software supply chain attacks on the rise, maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture is more crucial than ever.
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AI-powered assessments: A new era in TPRM

Mar 7, 2025 By UpGuard In UpGuard
UpGuard's Vendor Risk is a third-party risk management tool that delivers instant vendor insights, 360-degree assessments, and time-saving workflows—all in a centralized platform. Conduct vendor assessments at scale with an AI-powered security profile that scans vendor evidence to uncover control gaps and risks in minutes. Streamline risk management with actionable insights that help you prioritize, remediate, and track risks with precision. Generate AI-powered, point-in-time risk assessments in under 60 seconds to scale your program efficiently.
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Vendor Responsiveness Solved: Soothing Your Third-Party Aches

Mar 6, 2025 By Nicholas Sollitto In UpGuard
Inefficiencies, like slow vendor responses, often plague security teams like a persistent headache. At first, it’s just a dull throb in the background. Yes, it’s annoying, but analysts often accept it as the way things are, pushing through the pain and getting the job done. However, over time, this headache intensifies.
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Why Vendor Risk Management Can't Be a One-Time Task

Mar 5, 2025 By Leah Sadoian In UpGuard
Organizations across nearly every industry have become reliant on third-party relationships to accomplish their business operations. You’d be hard-pressed to find an organization that doesn’t partner with at least one third-party vendor. However, this growing reliance on vendors has also created an evolving threat landscape—vendors are now prime targets for cyberattacks.
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