The Shadow AI Disconnect CISOs Need to Know

Our new State of Shadow AI Report has just uncovered a critical disconnect that all security leaders need to be aware of. We all know shadow AI is exploding, and that blocking is the most logical response. How else are you going to regain control? But our data shows this is backfiring: This is where blocking can get dangerous. It doesn't stop AI; it just limits your visibility. Download the full (ungated) shadow AI report to see all the data.

How Outpost24 delivers operational resilience for DORA

The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has just turned a year old. This regulation represented a fundamental shift in how the financial sector manages ICT risk, moving beyond traditional compliance to demand continuous, demonstrable digital operational resilience. A year on, the focus has changed. Organizations can no longer just avoid cyber incidents. They need to prove they can withstand, respond to, and recover from disruptions quickly and effectively.

Hybrid Workforce Security and Dark Web Monitoring

Remember the early days of remote work? We traded our cubicles for kitchen tables and suddenly, our homes became our headquarters. This shift to the Hybrid Workforce has been incredible for flexibility, but let’s be honest: it tossed the old corporate security playbook out the window. The old way was easy: a big firewall at the office door, and you were safe. Now, that “door” is every employee’s home router, every personal laptop, and every late-night click when fatigue sets in.

Crowdsourced Penetration Testing: Understanding the Risks for Better Decision-Making

Crowdsourced penetration testing promises broad coverage, flexible resourcing, and cost efficiency by tapping into a distributed pool of security testers. Trustwave, A LevelBlue Company, realizes that not every organization has the financial resources to partner with a security firm with dedicated penetration testing capabilities. At the same time, we want to make organizations aware of the many pitfalls in the crowdsourced pen-testing market and offer a few pointers on choosing the right vendors.

Agentic AI and Identity Sprawl: The Convergence Redefining Cyber Risk

Welcome to Data Security Decoded. In this episode, Caleb Tolin welcomes back Joe Hladik, Head of Rubrik Zero Labs, for a focused look at how identity-driven threats are redefining modern security. Drawing insights from Rubrik Zero Labs’ latest report, Identity Crisis: Understanding and Building Resilience Against Identity-Driven Threats, Joe explains why identity has become the new perimeter in an era where hybrid and multi-cloud environments dominate.

Trust at enterprise scale: Introducing Vanta's Agentic Trust Platform

Building trust is critical for today’s most ambitious businesses. Why? Because companies viewed as trustworthy grow up to four times faster. Yet earning and proving trust remains harder than ever. ‍ As organizations scale, their attack surfaces grow—and so do their tech stacks. Every new tool meant to increase security often fragments it, leaving teams buried in overhead and blind spots.

Comparing NER Models for PII Identification

Identifying and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) is a critical need for enterprises handling sensitive data. Over 1000 NLP models and tools claim to solve this problem, but an infinite number of options opens a paradox of choice. We compiled this comprehensive comparison that examines ten notable PII detection solutions – their features, use cases, pros/cons, and reported success rates.

CVSS Is a Little Bit of Risk: Rethinking CVSS in Vulnerability Prioritization

The best part about my job is that I sometimes get to make some controversial statements. Well, as controversial as things can be in a niche area of cybersecurity like “what is a reasonable measure of vulnerability risk?” Along with my colleague Sander Vinberg we got to explore this question earlier this year at the second Annual VulnCon conference in Raleigh. Even though it’s only been held twice, it is quickly becoming one of my favorite conferences.

Acronis SIEM Connector 2.0: Seamless Security Integration for MSPs

MSPs often rely on managed detection and response (MDR) integrations, which provides enterprise-grade security capabilities without the need for in-house analysts or complex infrastructure. As MSPs grow into medium-sized businesses, they typically expand into extended detection and response (XDR) integrations, giving greater visibility across multiple security layers (endpoints, networks and cloud) and more control over how they manage and respond to threats.