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Cybersecurity Consulting and Ransomware Updates, May

Each month brings new evidence that cybersecurity is not just about reacting to incidents but anticipating them. The May 2025 threat landscape highlights the growing need for strategic vigilance, actionable intelligence, and timely intervention. With seventy-seven new vulnerabilities, five active exploits, and an uptick in ransomware activity, the month reinforces one clear message: the risk is real, and the window to act is now.

Vendor Security Review: Key Components And Implementation

Your vendors are essential partners, but they could also be your organization's biggest hidden security risk. A robust vendor review process is the key to ensuring onboarded vendors align with your cybersecurity standards and don't increase your likelihood of suffering a data breach. This guide outlines everything you need to know to build a structured, repeatable, and scalable vendor security review process.

Third Party Security: Building Your Vendor Risk Program in 2025

Are you confident your vendors can withstand a cyber attack? If not, you should continuously evaluate your third-party security, especially if you’re sharing sensitive customer data across your vendor ecosystem. In this post, we break down the concepts of third-party security and provide an actionable roadmap for effectively strengthening this essential branch of cybersecurity across your organization.

How To Securely Share Passwords With Team Members

Sharing passwords insecurely can put your business at serious risk of account compromises and data breaches. After watching this short video, you’ll learn the dangers of unsafe password-sharing methods and how a business password manager like Keeper can help secure shared credentials among your team.

Secure and Scalable Kubernetes for Multi-Cluster Management

This story is becoming more and more common in the Kubernetes world. What starts as a manageable cluster or two can quickly balloon into a sprawling, multi-cluster architecture spanning public clouds, private data centers, or a bit of both. And with that growth comes a whole new set of headaches. How do you keep tabs on compliance across wildly different configurations? When a service goes down across multiple clusters, how do you pinpoint the cause amidst the chaos?

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Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.