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PII Detection in Unstructured Text: Why Regex Fails (And What Works)

Let’s look at something many teams quietly struggle with. Detecting PII inside unstructured text. It feels like it should be simple. After all, we’ve used regular expressions for years to find emails, phone numbers, and ID formats. Yet when we deploy regex in real environments. ticket systems, chat logs, CRM notes, uploaded documents, support transcripts. something becomes clear very quickly. Regex isn’t enough.

Why You Shouldn't Ignore OS Updates Even for "Small" Bugs

Why You Shouldn’t Ignore OS Updates Even for “Small” Bugs In cybersecurity, people often focus on the big, headline-grabbing incidents: ransomware outbreaks, nation-state intrusions, or massive supply chain compromises. But the reality is far simpler: Most breaches begin with something small: a patch that wasn’t applied, a “low-priority” update that got postponed, or a seemingly harmless system bug that attackers quietly weaponized.

AI-Native Browsers Demand AI-Native Security: Why Legacy DLP Can't Protect You

In our recent analysis of AI browser exfiltration risks, we exposed how OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet create permanent backdoors to sensitive data through persistent memory, autonomous agents, and cross-platform sync. The challenges with AI native browsers strongly resonated with CISO’s and security leaders we speak with on a daily basis. But the threat extends far beyond Atlas and Comet.

React2Shell and related RSC vulnerabilities threat brief: early exploitation activity and threat actor techniques

On December 3, 2025, immediately following the public disclosure of the critical, maximum-severity React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182), the Cloudforce One Threat Intelligence team began monitoring for early signs of exploitation. Within hours, we observed scanning and active exploitation attempts, including traffic originating from infrastructure associated with Asian-nexus threat groups.

Why I'm leading Tines' internal workflow transformation

I first met Tines co-founders Eoin Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella more than a decade ago at eBay. Even then, we shared the same frustration: too much important work was slowed down by brittle processes, manual handoffs, and disconnected tools. We all believed technology should help people focus on meaningful work, not slow them down in muckwork. That idea has shaped my career ever since. I started out in security operations, using automation to make my own job easier.

Threat Research Year In Review - 2025

In November of last year, Aaron Bray made some supply chain security predictions for 2025. Now, as we approach the close of the year, we are going to look at how those predictions turned out. But first let’s start with the high-level statistics and review some of the campaigns we have been tracking and reporting on this year. As this year is not yet over, we have excluded data from December for both 2024 and 2025.

The future of privilege: Dynamic identity security in real time

Privilege is no longer a static control. It shifts dynamically with every action taken by an increasingly dynamic set of users, workloads, and AI agents, making traditional reliance on static credentials outdated and unfit for modern, fast-paced hybrid environments. As a result, organizations now need to evolve to a more agile and adaptive approach to securing privilege, one that can effectively handle the sheer volume and complexity of identities operating across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid ecosystems.