Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

PwC recently did an AI agent survey where they found the following: This all sounds great, right? For many reasons it is, but agentic AI creates a challenge of visibility for organizations into how AI agents are communicating with each other and external third-party vendors. Imagine a multitude of AI agents autonomously exchanging data across a complex mesh of third-party vendors and applications.

‍ ‍With the continuously expanding influence that cybersecurity has in determining an organization's financial and operational resilience, cyber risk quantification (CRQ) has steadily become a foundational component of any robust cyber governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program.

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) is the foundation of a secure and accountable IT infrastructure. It refers to the practices that ensure your organization stays secure, meets regulatory requirements, and minimizes operational risks. For organizations running on Active Directory, the stakes are even higher. One misconfigured permission, one overlooked stale account, or one unchecked access path can open the door to breaches, privilege escalation, or audit failures.

Security teams are familiar with the comforting sense of safety that comes from utilizing security controls like Single sign-on (SSO) providers to manage their organization’s major applications and critical tools. When these applications are routed through Okta, Azure AD, or other identity providers, your SaaS environment can seem managed and accounted for. But lurking underneath is a significant vulnerability: the SSO blind spot.

Ransomware activity continues to increase, and Bitsight data illustrates the scale of this growth. In our State of the Underground 2025 report, Bitsight TRACE observed a nearly 25% rise in unique ransomware victims publicly listed on leak sites. Additionally, the number of leak sites operated by ransomware groups grew by 53%.

Let’s get this out of the way: the term vulnerability management has always been misleading. It evokes the idea that we’re wrangling a tidy list of software flaws, checking boxes, patching holes, and keeping things humming. But anyone who’s worked in the trenches or tried to explain this chaos to an executive board knows the truth. What we call “vulnerability management” isn’t a single discipline, or even a well-contained function.