Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For those of you who are like me, when I first heard about the new EU AI Act, I had flashbacks to the implementation of the General Data Protection Act (GDPR) back in 2018. There are certainly a lot of similarities with the EU leading the way in consumer protections that will likely lead to more, similar legislation across the globe. I’m also reminded of the iPhone when it was introduced in the consumer market and bled into the workplace (I for one held onto my Blackberry for as long as I could).

KnowBe4 Threat Labs recently examined a sophisticated dual-vector campaign that demonstrates the real-world exploitation chain following credential compromise. This is not a traditional virus attack. Instead of deploying custom viruses, attackers are bypassing security perimeters by weaponizing the necessary IT tools that administrators trust. By stealing a “skeleton key” to the system, they turn legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software into a persistent backdoor.

Over the past two years, we’ve watched a steady wave of acquisitions reshape the privileged access market. For many security leaders, that wave has now hit home. Your PAM vendor has been acquired, absorbed into a larger platform, and suddenly the roadmap you once relied on feels less certain. This moment is easy to dismiss as “business as usual.” It is also one of the rare points where it actually makes sense to step back and reassess your PAM strategy with fresh eyes.

Nobody breaks into AWS by logging in as root and announcing themselves. They start with something small, such as a leaked key. IAM:PassRole is the kind of permission that creates a clean privilege-escalation path if you’re not watching it closely.

Learn how GitGuardian helps boards and CISOs align on cyber risk, operational resilience, and the rising impact of unmanaged workload identities at scale.

When a cyberattack or natural disaster strikes, the challenge isn’t just restoring data quickly — it’s resuming business operations just as fast. That’s where the distinction between disaster recovery (DR) and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) becomes critical for businesses. White paper A practical blueprint for cyber resilience to evolve from prevention to continuity.

The IT industry uses many overlapping terms that are often misunderstood. Cybersecurity, cyber protection, cyber resilience, cyber defense, cyber intelligence, cyber readiness — the list keeps growing, and so does the confusion. When these concepts are sometimes used interchangeably, organizations risk making the wrong decisions about how they protect systems, data and business operations. While these concepts are related, they are not the same.

You’re excited to install the latest update for your favourite app. You hit download, the installation runs smoothly, and everything looks fine until you realise the update wasn’t from the developer at all. It was tampered with. Your system is now quietly leaking data to an attacker.

GARDEN CITY, NY, USA – Opti9 today announced it has been selected as North America’s Managed Service Provider of the Year in the 2025 Wasabi Partner Network Awards. These awards recognize Wasabi partners that are dedicated to providing cutting edge cloud technology services to their end users.