Scale CMMC services without delivery chaos using ComplianceAide and Acronis integration

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.

Introducing AI-powered Contextual Project Classification: From severity scores to business risk

Today, Mend.io is launching Contextual Project Classification, an AI-native feature that automatically analyzes your codebase to identify which applications handle sensitive data like payments, healthcare records, and PII, enabling true risk-based security prioritization.

FERPA Compliance in Higher Education: Controlling Access to Student Data

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) has governed how universities handle student records since 1974. Fundamentally, FERPA is a federal privacy law that grants students the ability to exert some meaningful authority over their academic information. At the same time, it also assigns responsibility for the maintenance and safeguarding of student education records to the universities that maintain them.

What is Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) and Why do you Need It?

Integrated cloud email security (ICES) is a term coined by industry analyst, Gartner, in their 2021 Market Guide for Email Security. The guide was reissued in 2023 and stated that ‘by 2025, 20% of anti-phishing solutions will be delivered via API integration with the email platform, up from less than 5%” at the time of publication’.

The Six Key Benefits and Core Capabilities of Endpoint Security

Endpoint security encompasses the processes and technologies used to protect end-user devices—including laptops, servers, mobile devices, IoT systems, and any connected asset with access to corporate resources. As organizations become more distributed and adversaries become more sophisticated, the endpoint has evolved into both a preferred target for threat actors and a pivotal control point within a modern security architecture.

Most Active Threat Actors by Industry: Who Is Targeting Your Sector Right Now?

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.

Cato AI Security: Is Your Security Stack Built for How AI Works?

AI adoption is accelerating across enterprises — often faster than security teams can respond. Employees are using AI tools and copilots across SaaS apps and workflows, creating new exposure around sensitive data, shadow AI, and attack surfaces that traditional tools weren't built to see. This video breaks down the four AI security challenges every enterprise is facing, where existing controls fall short, and how Cato AI Security gives you visibility, guardrails, and enforcement across the AI your employees use, the applications you build, and the agents acting on your behalf.

Securing Homegrown Agents in Runtime: The Value of Zenity + Microsoft Foundry

How the integration works: Zenity integrates with the Foundry control plane to inspect agent behavior and enforce security policies inline at runtime. Over the past year, Microsoft Foundry has emerged as a cornerstone for enterprises building and deploying homegrown agents at scale. Organizations across industries are using Foundry to move beyond experimentation and into production, creating AI agents that can reason, invoke tools, access enterprise data, and automate complex workflows.

From Phishing to AI Agents: Can We Design for Digital Mindfulness?

Anyone who knows me knows I’m passionate about mindfulness. Because I genuinely believe it makes us better humans. But also, because I have one of those brains that desperately needs it. I’m easily distracted and I start new ideas before finishing old ones. My attention can scatter in a hundred directions. I wrote before how I clicked on a phishing test because I was multitasking and running on autopilot. And that moment really changed the direction of my career and my research.