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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.

Comparing MDR and MXDR: Key Differences, Suitability, and Trustwave's Solutions As cyber threats grow in frequency and sophistication, organizations are increasingly turning to managed security services to help monitor, detect, and respond to attacks. Two prominent security solutions have emerged to these needs: Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR).

We’re excited to announce that Elastic has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Extended Detection and Response Software 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc, September 2025). We believe the IDC MarketScape’s recognition reflects Elastic’s strength in delivering agentic AI-driven, open, and unified SIEM and XDR at scale. Elastic Security helps organizations detect, investigate, and respond to threats without lock-in or limits.

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.

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.