Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Cyber threats are escalating rapidly, with ransomware groups multiplying and attacks becoming faster and more targeted than ever. This blog profiles four of the most active threat actors currently targeting key industries: IntelBroker, APT44 (Sandworm), Volt Typhoon, and APT45. From financially motivated cybercrime to state-sponsored espionage and infrastructure disruption, each group presents unique risks across sectors including technology, energy, government, and finance.

You probably feel this already: the surface you’re responsible for no longer has edges. New assets appear without tickets. A team flips on a SaaS app and suddenly sensitive data, OAuth scopes, and public links widen your blast radius. Your scanners keep finding “stuff,” but little of it changes what you fix next week. That’s the gap attack surface analysis has to close in 2026—seeing more, yes, but mainly acting faster on what actually matters.

By Randy Blasik, Founder, ComplianceAide The good news for managed service providers (MSPs) supporting defense contractors is that demand for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and NIST 800-171 readiness services is surging. The downside, unfortunately, is that many MSPs have discovered that delivering compliance engagements at scale can be difficult and complex.

Most law firms have moved email, documents, and collaboration to Microsoft 365. And most assume Microsoft is backing up that data. They’re wrong. According to Microsoft’s own Services Agreement, “We recommend that you regularly backup Your Content and Data that you store on the Services or store using Third-Party Apps and Services.” Microsoft provides infrastructure redundancy—if their data center has a problem, your data is replicated elsewhere.

For many organizations, ServiceNow operates as the system of record for governance, auditability, and compliance. But when incidents occur, engineers often need to consult external tools to identify and resolve the root cause. When investigations are siloed from the system of record, engineers must return to ServiceNow to manually update work notes, incident statuses, and mandatory resolution fields before closing tickets.