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Security Automation Doesn't Mean What It Used To: A 2026 Practitioner's Guide

Security automation used to mean building a playbook. Someone on the team mapped out a workflow, connected a few tools, and watched it run on the alert types it was designed for. That worked for a while, in a different environment than the one security teams operate in today.

6 Best Practices for Managing Software Supply Chain Risks

Modern software is not written from scratch. It’s assembled. Developers pull from open-source repositories, import third-party libraries, accelerate development with AI coding assistants, and deploy across multi-stage CI/CD pipelines that span dozens of tools, services, and vendors.

15 Risky Cloud Misconfigurations and How To Mitigate Them

When people start driving, one of the first things they learn is how to set the rear-view and side-view mirrors. Whether driving locally or on the highway, these mirror configurations reduce accident risk because they improve the driver’s visibility into the cars behind and around them. In the cloud, various technical configurations act similarly.

Exposure Management Explained: How to Go Beyond Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability scanning gives security teams a starting point, but it has never been the whole picture. Scan results capture known CVEs across applications and systems, yet they say nothing about whether a given weakness is actually reachable, whether the controls around it are functioning correctly, or whether the people with access to it represent a meaningful risk. Exposure management addresses all of that.

Legal Considerations for Starting a New Business in Minnesota

Starting a business feels electric until the legal reality hits you. And it will hit you. According to research, 75% of small business owners are concerned they'll be targeted for a lawsuit. That number isn't just a statistic. It reflects the very real anxiety that keeps first-time founders up at night. The truth? Getting ahead of Minnesota business laws early isn't bureaucratic busywork; it's the single most practical move you can make before your first customer ever walks through the door.

From Idea to Product: What Separates Startups That Ship from Those That Stall

The gap between a startup that gains traction and one that burns through runway on a product nobody uses is rarely about the idea. It's almost always about execution - and execution in tech starts with how software gets built. Companies that treat development as a commodity end up with commodity results. Those that invest in custom software development for startups as a strategic discipline - with the right team, architecture, and process - tend to reach product-market fit faster and scale with far less friction.

Three ways intelligent workflows enhance network security

Network security is operationally complex. It involves constant triage, approvals, and monitoring, spread across a range of tools, teams, and environments. Traditionally, this requires teams to do a significant amount of time-consuming, repetitive, and draining manual work, resulting in a longer MTTR and leaving many practitioners overwhelmed and burnt out. The problem isn’t in the tools they use – it’s in the work that happens between tools.

The Security Illusion: Why Your AI Security Tool Won't Save You (And Neither Will Your Traditional API Security)

The enterprise security world is having two separate conversations that desperately need to collide. On one side, application security (AppSec) teams are scrambling to secure APIs – the connective tissue of every modern application. On the other, a new wave of “AI security” vendors promise to protect your LLMs from prompt injection, data leakage, and hallucinations. Both groups are solving real problems. Both are missing half the picture.

Cato CTRL Threat Brief: AI, Zero-Days, and the US-China Cyber Arms Race

Underlying the US–China AI race, there’s arguably a more sinister arms race—the race to identify zero-day threats. Frontier AI algorithms, such as Anthropic Mythos (here) and China’s Qihoo 360 (here), are compressing the zero-day discovery cycle. But how those discoveries are gathered and shared among cooperating entities is giving China significant defensive and offensive advantages.

Is GRC Cool Again? How Mythos and Frontier AI Models Are Bringing a New Focus to Governance and Risk Management

For the record, I always thought the GRC was cool. NIST Framework? Yes please. Vendor risk register? Tell me more! Not everyone shared my enthusiasm for effective and efficient cyber risk reduction. Until now. Suddenly, seemingly overnight, managing the digital supply chain became really, really important. AI governance (a phrase that didn’t even exist a year ago) is now the topic of boardroom discussions. Yes, it will look different and operate in a new way.