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By Edward Kost
Shadow IT refers to any technology—including hardware, software, cloud services, SaaS applications, or AI tools—used within an organization without the explicit approval of the IT or security department. Shadow IT is rarely malicious. It is usually the result of employees searching for a means of making their workflows more efficient. When sanctioned corporate tools are perceived as too slow, rigid, or complex, users often "self-serve" by adopting unvetted alternatives to meet their deadlines.
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By Shane Moosa
The classic tradeoff in cybersecurity has always been simple: more visibility at the cost of speed. But today, that tradeoff is breaking down. As attackers leverage AI to find and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale, the sheer volume of alerts is burying security teams. The result? An expanding exposure gap. It is taking longer than ever to triage and remediate threats, creating a dangerous window between when a tool pings and when a human in the SOC can actually take action.
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By Revashni Moodley
There’s no way to stop the clock in cybersecurity for InfoSec teams, but you can find ways to manufacture a better way to spend their time. Tiering does just that, prioritizing your team’s most finite resource. But to start, you need better data, and most importantly, better logic to redefine how you work.
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By Edward Kost
Most organizations need both a cyber-focused TPRM platform and a compliance-focused TPRM platform, but it can be difficult to see where one tool ends and the other begins. If you're currently evaluating TPRM platforms, this guide clarifies the differences between the two.
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By Revashni Moodley
Cybersecurity doesn’t really have quiet days. Usually, it’s just long stretches of constant noise before realizing you’ve been blindsided. That blindside is a flat list of unprioritized vendors. Without a way to filter what matters when a team needs to mitigate the fallout of a crisis, a vendor inventory like this becomes a compliance-only activity that offers a false sense of security.
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By Revashni Moodley
The thing about blanket approaches is that they rarely work or scale. The same holds true for third-party cyber risk management. Treating every provider, stakeholder, or partner with the same intensity is neither productive nor cost-effective. While defaulting to treating every vendor at the same risk level is common, it is not a resilient security strategy.
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By Shane Moosa
Humans have always sought to streamline productivity through the most convenient solutions available, prioritizing speed to stay ahead and gain an edge over the competition. From the assembly line to the cloud, the goal remains the same: do more with less friction. Today, that convenience is synonymous with AI. While these tools have revolutionized how we work, the reality remains that rapid innovation always comes with a hidden cost.
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By Greg Pollock
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers facilitate the integration of third-party services with AI applications, but these benefits come with significant risks. If a trusted MCP server is hijacked or spoofed by an attacker, it becomes a dangerous vector for prompt injection and other malicious activities. One way attackers infiltrate software supply chains is through brand impersonation, also known as typosquatting—creating malicious resources that closely resemble trusted ones.
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By Greg Pollock
What permissions are developers granting to Claude Code, and could those permissions pose a risk if the coding agent were exposed to malicious inputs? To answer this question, we turned to GitHub, the website where developers go to share their private configuration files. From Github we collected a dataset of 18,470.claude/settings.local.json files, each containing the permissions that a user granted to Claude Code for a software project.
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By Revashni Moodley
Organizations face a complex cybersecurity conundrum. Attack surfaces are expanding faster than SOC teams can scan. All of which is leading to a never-ending cycle of swivel-chair security, context-free lists, increased alert fatigue, and slow remediation. The strategic pivot needed to combat this is Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). A structured and essential alternative that moves teams away from reactive scanning to proactive, ongoing validation and prioritization.
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By UpGuard
How many new vendors did your team engage with today? If you’re looking at your official procurement list, the answer might be zero. But if you’re looking at employee behavior, the reality is likely much higher. Find out more about the shadow supply chain in our most recent research report: Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
Shift to a proactive posture and automate outcomes. Explore how our new Risk Automations connects UpGuard to your existing security stack to resolve threats across your ecosystem in real-time.
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By UpGuard
Modern threats move faster than humans can process. Join UpGuard CISO Phil Ross to discover how to replace manual bottlenecks with a machine-speed operating system for risk that orchestrates vendor, human, and attack surface defenses into one unified strategy.
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By UpGuard
Eliminate the manual hand-off between business units and security. Learn how our new portal automates the entire onboarding workflow, aligning vendor requests with security reviews from day one.
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By UpGuard
Modern threats move faster than humans can process. Join UpGuard CISO Phil Ross to discover how to replace manual bottlenecks with a machine-speed operating system for risk that orchestrates vendor, human, and attack surface defenses into one unified strategy. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
Jess Hooper, Vice President, Product Get first look at the next frontier of Cyber Risk Posture Management. From AI-agent orchestration to the next generation of our vendor system of record, see how we’re building the future of automated defense.
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By UpGuard
Banning AI seems logical. Our new report shows why it's failing. The problem? The people you're blocking are often top performers. They're confident, innovative, and willing to work around the rules to get value. This video explains why this paradox changes everything. You can't just block curiosity. You have to harness it. Download the complete (ungated) report.
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By UpGuard
Managers: When your team needs answers, are they coming to you or to AI? Our new report found 27% of employees now trust AI more than their colleagues or managers. In this video, we break down why banning AI creates a trust vacuum that's fundamentally breaking team structures.
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By UpGuard
Explore how you can prioritise workforce risk scores with real-time coaching to reduce unsafe behaviour. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
See how Riverside County transformed vendor risk from a manual, time-consuming process into a streamlined, data-driven operation that speeds decision-making, reduces risk, and enables innovation. Also hear about their approach to managing emerging AI risks, with practical, actionable lessons other security teams can apply. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
You understand the risks that third party vendors pose to your business, and you're ready to do something about it. What are the capabilities you need to understand your cyber risk, manage your vendors, and avoid data breaches?
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By UpGuard
The fact that one has to "make a case" for Microsoft in the DevOps sphere puts them at a disadvantage, especially competing against major open source options with large community bases and proven performance. But, moving forward, one can expect the gap between Microsoft and other tools to close further, as they continue pressing their business in this direction.
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By UpGuard
Perhaps your organization is looking to make a transition from traditional IT operations and development practices to DevOps, or you're looking to realign your career path with DevOps to position yourself more favorably to future opportunities. Whatever your motivations are, this eBook will provide you with foundation knowledge for boosting your career with DevOps.
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By UpGuard
ServiceNow® customers optimizing their IT service delivery and management processes require deeper context and detail level behind IT asset changes--information the leading help desk automation and incident reporting platform does not provide. In this report you'll learn how UpGuard fills this visibility and awareness gap, keeping ServiceNow® in line with the true state of your environment.
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By UpGuard
Cybersecurity is officially dead. Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software and services rose to $73.7 billion in 2016 from $68.2 billion a year earlier, according to researcher IDC. This number is expected to approach $90 billion in 2018.
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By UpGuard
Selecting a security provider is no easy feat-it includes months of designing a company's security strategy, evaluating different solutions, budgeting accordingly, and assuring stakeholders the investment will pay off by keeping their business safe.
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By UpGuard
DevOps and ITIL should be compared with an eye towards the problem you're trying to solve, with a focus on the tangible benefits you and your team would see from using each.
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By UpGuard
With the enterprise so dependent on technology and digitized assets, how can it prevent data-related disasters from sinking the business? The answer is by taking a new approach to managing cyber risk as a function of business risk at large. McKinsey calls this "Digital Resilience", but it can simply be thought of as conducting business safely in today's connected environments.
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By UpGuard
Software engineering is changing and DevOps is at the heart of it. An organization's ability to be responsive to the business requires better collaboration, communication, and integration across IT.
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By UpGuard
There is no doubt that the DevOps movement has gone mainstream. When even IBM and HP are dedicating sites to it there is no longer any question. If we were to place it on the Gartner Hype Cycle even the most devoted proponents would have to admit that it's rapidly approaching the "Peak of Inflated Expectations".
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