Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Depending on the field in which you work, you’ve almost definitely encountered an ISO standard. While these might not seem like they have much to do with one another, the chain that binds them all together is ISO itself. ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and the 800+ committees that serve as expert boards in different fields, develop international standards to which businesses and organizations can be held.

Windows 11 is better protected out of the box than older versions of Windows, but that does not solve the biggest problem most users face: recovery. If a phishing page slips through, ransomware starts encrypting files, or your SSD fails during an update, built-in protection can only take you so far. That is why the best antivirus for Windows 11 is no longer just the one that blocks malware most aggressively. It is the one that fits how you actually use your PC and what happens if something goes wrong.

In 2025, organizations spent billions on security, deploying EDR/XDR, SASE, firewalls, identity platforms, email security, web security, and more. And yet, breaches persist. The reason often is not a zero-day, an advanced persistent threat, or a cutting-edge exploit. It is far more mundane. Misconfigurations across identity, endpoint, network, and email/web security controls remain among the top root causes of incidents.

Hybrid cloud backup is a data protection strategy that combines both on-premises and cloud-based storage for backup data. This approach stands out from other backup strategies by including a cloud component to enhance redundancy, availability, resilience, and cost efficiency.

When it comes to recovery from backups, one of the core functionalities needed is recovering a file or files that may have been accidentally or intentionally deleted, corrupted by a system failure, or a possible ransomware infection. When it comes to file recovery, we want to be able to quickly and easily recover from a backup and have the flexibility to choose the restore points we need.

Security operations often feel like a paradox: a discipline built on high-speed decision-making wrapped inside layers of noisy, inconsistent data. Every alert has some useful and not so useful noise, but only a few truly matter. Our job is to know the difference. For us, Tines became the medium through which the noise resolved into signal.

Email security often focuses on incoming threats such as phishing, malware, and malicious links, but outbound email security is just as important. According to KnowBe4’s 2025 State of Human Risk Report, nearly half of cybersecurity leaders say misdirected emails sent by employees have caused security incidents. These mistakes typically happen when employees send messages to the wrong recipient, attach the wrong file, or unintentionally share sensitive information.

There is a widening gap between what most organizations call offensive security testing and what actually keeps them safe. The standard model looks familiar: schedule an annual penetration test, receive a PDF full of color-coded findings, remediate a handful of critical items, and repeat next year. Attackers do not operate in annual cycles. The core problem is not a lack of testing. It is the wrong kind.

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Josh Rector is the Compliance Director, Public Sector at Ace of Cloud, a security and compliance consulting firm, certified CMMC Third-Party Assessor Organization (C3PAO), and Registered Provider Organization (RPO). With more than a decade of experience in cybersecurity compliance, he has worked both sides of the assessment table, leading internal and external assessments, serving as ISSO for systems at federal agencies, and guiding cloud service providers through the FedRAMP authorization process.