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Securing your organization’s assets is more crucial than ever before! Penetration testing, also known as pen testing, has emerged as one of the best practices for identifying vulnerabilities before attackers do. This ultimate guide will help you understand how pen testing fits into an overall security strategy, outline key tools and methodologies, and detail how to ensure compliance with various regulatory frameworks.

Penetration testing and auditing are both methods of gaining assurance, but they operate from different angles. A pentest evaluates how well security controls stand up to real-world attack scenarios, while an audit examines whether those controls are designed, implemented, and maintained according to policy or recognised standards.

Muhammed Mayet, Global Sales Engineering Director, at Obrela elaborates on ENISA’s Threat Landscape 2025 and Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2025 and discusses how resilience can win over complexity The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), in its Threat Landscape 2025 report, paints a vivid picture of sustained and diverse cyberattacks across the EU.

We’ve all been there. You open your laptop, log in to your account, log in to your password manager, step away for a quick coffee break, and come back ready to get started on a project, only to be asked by your computer and password manager to log in to both all over again. It’s safe, sure, but it can also feel like one extra speed bump between you and getting work done.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) isn’t new, yet many organizations still struggle to meet its requirements. Why? It’s in part, at least, because GDPR is just plain hard to follow. As it turns out, meticulously protecting the personal data of 450 million citizens of the European Union (EU) isn’t easy. Most IT professionals, managed service providers (MSPs) and business leaders know what GDPR is. Many know what it requires.

Your security operations are running in full throttle. Every log, alert, and event is fuel for defense. But as enterprises scale across endpoints, cloud, and SaaS, data has become both an enabler and an expense. The explosion of telemetry has turned visibility into an economic dilemma. Across the industry, CISOs are confronting a simple truth: the challenge isn’t how much data you can collect; it’s how intelligently you can use it to stay both Breach Ready and Board Ready.

Researchers at Push Security warn of an extremely convincing ClickFix attack posing as a Cloudflare verification check. ClickFix is a social engineering technique that tricks the victim into copying and pasting a malicious command, then running it on their computer. In the instance observed by Push Security, the phishing page has a pop-up box that appears to be from Cloudflare, instructing the user to press the keyboard shortcuts necessary to open a terminal and run a command.

Over the past few years, API security has gone from a relatively niche concern to a headline issue. A slew of high-profile breaches and compliance mandates like PCI DSS 4.0 have woken security teams up to the reality that APIs are the front door to their data, infrastructure, and revenue streams. OWASP recently published its first-ever Business Logic Abuse Top 10 List; a clear indication that the industry is taking API security and all its nuances seriously.

Adopting a modern, cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solution is crucial for staying ahead of today’s complex cyberthreats. Whether you’re moving from an on-premises solution or migrating between cloud platforms, the transition to cloud-native SIEM can deliver significant benefits in scalability, flexibility, and advanced threat detection.

The last year has seen the retail sector fixed squarely in the sights of threat actors, as several of the largest attacks involved several of the world’s best known retail brands, including Harrods, Marks & Spencer, and Victoria’s Secret.