Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Every MSP has heard the question in some form: how do you know this actually works? For most security products, the honest answer is a mix of vendor documentation, analyst reports, and your own experience. All useful, but none of it is a verdict from someone with no stake in the result. Spain’s public sector works differently. When government agencies there buy security products, they look to CPSTIC, a catalog run by Spain’s National Cryptologic Centre (CCN).

Some cyber incidents leave no margin for error, whether that's an attack that interrupts energy, water, or financial services, or a breach that triggers reporting obligations in several jurisdictions within hours. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) created the Enhanced Level of its Cyber Incident Response (CIR) scheme for incidents like these. It recognizes providers that meet rigorous standards for high-quality incident response, at the highest level of risk.

Chris Kissel, Vice President of IDC Security & Trust, just drew a line in the sand for the AI SOC category with one simple sentence: “Vendors that can show their agents reason transparently, act within defined guardrails, and improve with each investigation will define this category. The rest will be measured against them.” We couldn’t agree more.

The quick answer: A disaster recovery (DR) plan is only a hypothesis until it’s tested under real conditions. Regular, scoped DR and cyber recovery testing, covering people, dependencies, data, and systems, exposes the gaps that a written plan can’t reveal. 11:11 Systems helps IT and business continuity leaders validate recovery readiness before a real incident forces the issue. Think of a DR plan like a fire escape map taped to the back of a hotel room door.

Shopify phishing has evolved from the laughable “Dear Shopify Merchant” email into one of the most reliable account-takeover vectors in ecommerce. On the same pattern, Shopify shops have recently been hit with a checkout hijack campaign running through HulkApps, Swym, and Selleasy extensions, where shoppers on legitimate stores were redirected to a fake payment page on biliingtop that captured their card details before forwarding them to the real Shopify checkout.

Federal agencies are facing a critical reckoning with cybersecurity. In the past year alone, high-profile breaches have exposed millions of Americans’ personal data, compromised sensitive intelligence networks and revealed significant gaps in access control practices across some of the government’s most trusted institutions.

Co-founder and CCO Most code scanners stop at a merged pull request. LimaCharlie Code Security keeps going until the fix is running. Code Security is now generally available in the LimaCharlie Cloud Security extension. It scans GitHub, GitLab.com, and Bitbucket Cloud repositories, ranks code findings next to your cloud risk, and checks every fix against what your workloads actually run. Most code security tools declare victory at merge.

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, make one commitment: rehearse the decisions your business cannot afford to improvise.