Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial services, from fraud detection to personalized banking assistants. But with innovation comes risk. AI agents—particularly those powered by large language models (LLMs)—are increasingly being embedded into financial workflows. While they promise efficiency, they also introduce a new layer of data compliance challenges.

Credential replay remains one of the most efficient ways attackers turn stolen usernames, passwords, or tokens into real account access. Verizon’s 2024 DBIR shows that over 40% of breaches involve stolen credentials, underscoring the durability of this tactic. Even strong authentication is not immune. Techniques like pass-the-cookie and adversary-in-the-middle phishing allow attackers to replay tokens and sidestep MFA.

Organizations across the globe are witnessing an unprecedented pace of transformation. In the ever-evolving landscape of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC), staying ahead of change is more critical than ever. Successful companies are embracing dynamic change management policies to integrate GRC seamlessly into their strategic operations. The landscape of GRC is evolving.

A comprehensive analysis of the breach that exposed 570GB of consulting data and put 800 organizations at risk.

This is a fascinating moment. Whether you think Generative AI is over-hyped or not, our technology landscape has been shocked by capabilities we couldn’t imagine a few years ago. And I do mean shocked. What’s underway is too rapid and uncanny to describe in terms of evolution. We are living through something different.

Here on the Ignyte blog, we talk a lot about the most important cybersecurity frameworks for the federal government, including FedRAMP and CMMC. There’s a lot that goes into these frameworks, with contributors all across the information security world, but one of the more important agencies is DISA. The United States Defense Information Systems Agency, formerly known as the Defense Communications Agency, is the DoD sub-agency responsible for IT services and security for the Department of Defense.

On October 2, 2025, Oracle announced that some Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) customers had received extortion emails. Oracle’s investigation revealed the potential use of vulnerabilities previously addressed in the July 2025 Critical Patch Update. The following nine vulnerabilities in EBS products were addressed in the July update. These vulnerabilities range from medium to high severity, with three potentially exploitable by remote, unauthenticated threat actors.

A survey by Gartner found that 62% of organizations have been hit by a deepfake attack in the past twelve months, Infosecurity Magazine reports. Akif Khan, senior director at Gartner Research, told Infosecurity Magazine that deepfakes are currently being used in social engineering attacks to impersonate executives and trick employees into transferring money. “That’s trickier because social engineering is a perpetually reliable thing for attackers to use,” Khan said.

Running a penetration test is only half the battle. The real challenge is translating complex technical findings into insights that leadership can act on. The right metrics do not just highlight vulnerabilities; they tell a story about risk, resilience, and readiness. In this guide, we explore the penetration testing metrics that truly matter and how to present them in a way that resonates with decision-makers.