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Are the repeated warnings throughout the years taking effect? Although we would like to say they are, the answer is complex and, most likely, we aren’t quite there yet.

According to Bitsight Threat Intelligence, NoName057(16) remains one of the most visible pro-Russian hacktivist groups conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against countries and organizations perceived as supporting Ukraine. This matters because the risk can extend beyond direct business ties to Ukraine, and the group may also target organizations that do business with vendors, suppliers, partners, or service providers perceived as supporting Ukraine.

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.

For organizations within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 represents more than a regulatory hurdle. It is becoming a core requirement for doing business with the Department of Defense and for protecting sensitive information across the defense supply chain.

Security leaders are under pressure to do more than identify issues. They need to show that security work is reducing real risk. That’s harder than it should be. Attack surfaces keep expanding, threats keep changing, and many teams are still working through long lists of issues without enough context to know what deserves attention first. That's where Threat Insights in Bitsight Security Posture Management can make a real difference.

The ripple effects of a cyberattack rarely stay contained. Modern organizations rely on vast ecosystems of vendors, suppliers, SaaS providers, and partners. As those connections deepen, so does the potential blast radius of a third-party compromise. What begins as an exposed system or stolen credential inside a vendor environment can quickly cascade across the supply chain. Attackers understand this. Increasingly, they target trusted third parties as an indirect path into larger organizations.

When a new vulnerability is announced, the race begins. Security teams jump into action, checking exposure, triaging events, identifying affected systems, and figuring out how quickly they can patch. The clock is ticking and they know it. At the same moment, threat actors are doing their own version of that work. They’re reading the same advisories, watching the same feeds, and asking a much simpler question: Who is still vulnerable?

No man is an island, entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.– John Donne Let’s face it, we have a gap in our cyber posture. Thirty percent of breaches originate from third parties, yet as organizations become increasingly exposed to supply chain attacks, they often lack the visibility, context, and workflows to detect and respond to them. Why?

Something fundamentally shifted in cybersecurity. Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s frontier AI model, signaled the arrival of what the Cloud Security Alliance called an “AI vulnerability storm,” a world where vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited at machine speed. This is a compression event, collapsing timelines, expanding attack surfaces, and forcing a rewrite of how organizations think about security operations, software development, risk, and ultimately, business survival.

Residential proxy services, also called RESIP, present a persistent operational hurdle for tracking and attributing malicious network activity, as they allow threat actors to mask their true origins behind seemingly benign, geographically diverse IP addresses. While often marketed for legitimate use cases, these networks are aggressively leveraged for fraud, credential abuse, and perimeter evasion.