What is an External API?

In today’s highly interconnected digital ecosystem, external APIs have become indispensable for organizations looking to enhance their capabilities and remain competitive. These interfaces allow businesses to seamlessly integrate third-party services, data, and functionalities into their applications, unlocking many possibilities. However, while external APIs offer immense opportunities, they also come with significant challenges, especially regarding security, governance, and risk management.

How the 4 Elements of Fraud Power Modern Scams

Many of today’s most damaging scams are built on repeatable, well-understood patterns. The legal world defines four core elements of fraud with direct applicability to today’s phishing, impersonation, and account takeover (ATO) threats: By understanding this structure, security leaders and fraud teams can spot threats earlier and counter them more effectively.

HIPAA Compliance, Fines, and Requirements Explained

HIPAA compliance is an essential legal act that came into effect to prevent healthcare data breaches and protect patient information. Throughout this article, we will give a comprehensive overview of HIPAA compliance, who it applies to, and how secure services like Internxt cloud storage can help the medical industry protect sensitive information with its secure product suite.

Health-ISAC 2025 Report: Ransomware Still Reigns as #1 Threat to Healthcare

Health-ISAC recently released their 2025 Health Sector Cyber Threat Landscape Report, a comprehensive outline of the malicious activity aimed at healthcare in the previous year. Not surprisingly, ransomware was cited by security professionals in the industry as the number one threat of 2024 and the top area of concern coming into 2025 (followed by third-party breaches, supply chain attacks, and zero-day exploits). Some things never change. However, when it comes to ransomware, they do evolve.

Three SOC Threats Solved in Minutes with Torq Hyperautomation

Your SOC exists for one core reason: to rapidly reduce the mean time to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. The more efficiently your team operates, the faster you reduce essential KPIs like MTTR, MTTD, MTTI, and what we call ‘MTTx’ (mean time to anything). Ask our Field CISO, Patrick Orzechowski (PO), and he’ll tell you straight: If your SOC isn’t relentlessly focused on reducing risk through speed, you’re falling behind. Talking about efficiency is easy.

Network Security vs. Endpoint Security: Key Differences and Best Practices

When it comes to cybersecurity, there are many different systems to consider. But before focusing on any one of them, it’s important to start with a basic premise: when building a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, implement multiple layers of security. This is known as a defense-in-depth strategy. A clear example is: network security vs. endpoint security. Endpoint protection secures individual devices, while network security safeguards the entire network.

Deep Dive: A DFIR Case Study in Hospitality

As part of the 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Hospitality Sector, Trustwave SpiderLabs' Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) team provided an in-depth analysis of how phishing-based cybersecurity threat actors prey on organizations in the hospitality sector. Drawing on real-world incidents derived from Trustwave SpiderLabs everyday work, the report consolidates data from multiple investigations into a single case study under the pseudonym "Five Star Hotels".

Consolidating Security Visibility: Gaining Unified Control with VRM, Now Enhanced with Wiz

Security teams are drowning in data. From static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) to cloud security posture management (CSPM) and third-party findings, the sheer volume and variety of vulnerability data can overwhelm even the most sophisticated organizations. The problem isn’t just collecting this data—it’s making sense of it. Most solutions fail to unify these disparate data sources into a single, actionable view, leaving teams grappling with.