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10 Hidden Cybersecurity Misconfigurations
In 2025, organizations spent billions on security, deploying EDR/XDR, SASE, firewalls, identity platforms, email security, web security, and more. And yet, breaches persist. The reason often is not a zero-day, an advanced persistent threat, or a cutting-edge exploit. It is far more mundane. Misconfigurations across identity, endpoint, network, and email/web security controls remain among the top root causes of incidents.
Top 3 Federal IT Priorities: A Strategy for Modernization
Federal Sales Director Anish Patel outlines the three anchors of a modern federal IT strategy: digital experiences, AI innovation, and assertive defense. Discover how Cloudflare provides the unique platform needed to accelerate all three priorities simultaneously while protecting critical government networks.
3 Surprising Facts About Cloudflare's Public Sector Impact
Federal Sales Director Anish Patel reveals three things government agencies may not know about Cloudflare, from its role in protecting the entire.gov domain via CISA to its massive scale processing 20% of all web traffic. Learn how Cloudflare delivers commercial-grade innovation to the federal sector without the usual friction or technical barriers.
Optimize Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Controls | Demo Video
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects against phishing, malware, and malicious links across email and collaboration tools. But as environments scale and settings are changed, your Defender security controls can drift away from security baselines and degrade your security posture. Reach continuously analyzes your Defender deployment to find and fix misconfigurations, activate unused capabilities, and stop configuration drift.
Scaling Reach Security the Right Way
New year, new faces, big goals. To close out 2025 and open 2026, we welcomed 43 new team members across engineering, sales, customer success & solutions, marketing, and operations. Reach was founded to close the gap between knowing where you're exposed and actually fixing it. That mission doesn’t scale without the right people. Growth is exciting, but aligned growth—with the right people, at the right time, for the right mission—is what really matters.
SecurityScorecard's Weekly Brief: The CISO Edition with Steve Cobb
This is SecurityScorecard's Weekly Brief: The CISO Edition with SecurityScorecard's CISO Steve Cobb. Is it time to retire the vendor questionnaire and annual assessment routines? Not quite, but following face-to-face customer interactions and many forward-thinking speaking sessions at RSAC 2026, CISO Steve Cobb emphasizes the importance of reducing risk for TPRM programs, which is not achieved by completing a third-party risk assessment checklist alone.
Setting Up Hybrid Cloud Backup: A Complete Guide
Hybrid cloud backup is a data protection strategy that combines both on-premises and cloud-based storage for backup data. This approach stands out from other backup strategies by including a cloud component to enhance redundancy, availability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
File Recovery from VM Backup with NAKIVO
When it comes to recovery from backups, one of the core functionalities needed is recovering a file or files that may have been accidentally or intentionally deleted, corrupted by a system failure, or a possible ransomware infection. When it comes to file recovery, we want to be able to quickly and easily recover from a backup and have the flexibility to choose the restore points we need.
How Armature Systems Uses Tines to Transform Our SOC Into a Faster, Leaner, Low-Friction Machine
Security operations often feel like a paradox: a discipline built on high-speed decision-making wrapped inside layers of noisy, inconsistent data. Every alert has some useful and not so useful noise, but only a few truly matter. Our job is to know the difference. For us, Tines became the medium through which the noise resolved into signal.
Outbound Email Security: Protecting Data and Reputation
Email security often focuses on incoming threats such as phishing, malware, and malicious links, but outbound email security is just as important. According to KnowBe4’s 2025 State of Human Risk Report, nearly half of cybersecurity leaders say misdirected emails sent by employees have caused security incidents. These mistakes typically happen when employees send messages to the wrong recipient, attach the wrong file, or unintentionally share sensitive information.