The thrill of a merger or acquisition (M&A) is often found in the synergy of the deal: new markets, new technologies, and new talent. But in 2026, the greatest risk to a successful exit isn’t in the financial ledger; it is in the code repositories, the employee habits, and the silent, unpatched vulnerabilities you inherit […]
M&A Due Diligence: Buying a Company Means Buying Their Bugs Read More »
For the last decade, the metric for success in many security teams was simple: “Patch everything, everywhere, all at once.” The goal was a clean scan report, a sea of green checkmarks indicating that every server, laptop, and cloud instance was updated to the latest version. In 2026, this goal is not just unrealistic; it
Stop Patching Everything: The Case for “Continuous Threat Exposure Management” (CTEM) Read More »
For the past twenty years, the organizational chart of a typical enterprise security team has looked roughly the same. At the top sits the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), presiding over a centralized fortress of analysts, engineers, and architects. This “Central Command” model was designed for an era when technology was procured, deployed, and managed
The Rise of the BISO: Embedding Security into Business Units Read More »
For decades, the cybersecurity industry has been predicting the “death of the password.” In 2026, we are finally watching the funeral procession. Driven by the FIDO Alliance and the ubiquity of biometric sensors on consumer devices, “Passkeys” have rapidly moved from a niche standard to the default authentication method for millions of users. The promise
Beyond the Password: Managing Identity in a “Passkey-First” World Read More »
For nearly two decades, the cybersecurity industry has chased a specific utopian vision: the “Single Pane of Glass.” The promise was seductive in its simplicity. Vendors assured Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) that if they just bought enough modules from a single platform, every alert, log, and vulnerability would appear on one pristine dashboard. The
The “Single Pane of Glass” Myth: Why Collaboration is Better than Consolidation Read More »
It is a scenario that plays out in corporate headquarters every Friday afternoon. An employee resigns, or perhaps they are let go. The HR team processes the paperwork, conducts an exit interview, and notifies IT. At 5:00 PM sharp, the IT administrator clicks a button in Active Directory or Okta, disabling the user’s primary account.
Offboarding is the New Perimeter: The Insider Risk of Ex-Employees Read More »
There is a quiet crisis occurring in the heart of the modern Security Operations Center (SOC). It is not a crisis of technology, nor is it a crisis of funding. It is a crisis of human capital. For years, the industry response to the evolving threat landscape has been additive. We have added more sensors,
Operationalizing Trust: Fixing the Broken Feedback Loop in Modern SOCs Read More »
In the early days of cybersecurity, the prevailing wisdom was simple: build a wall high enough to keep the bad actors out. The strategy was binary; secure or insecure, safe or breached. But as we move deeper into the latter half of the decade, that binary worldview has collapsed. The perimeter has not just dissolved;
The Resilient by Design Enterprise: Unifying Strategy, Speed, and Security Read More »
For the better part of the last decade, the mantra of the digital age was simple: “Data is the new oil.” Companies hoarded every byte they could capture, customer clickstreams, decade-old transaction logs, and redundant backups of backups, convinced that one day, this data would yield profitable insights. Storage was cheap, the cloud was infinite,
The “Toxic Asset” in Your Cloud: Why Data Minimization is Your Best Security Strategy Read More »
In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise cybersecurity, attention is frequently monopolized by the “front door” mechanisms. Security teams and business leaders naturally focus their resources on the shiny new web application, the latest mobile app release, or the newly architected cloud environment. The prevailing assumption suggests that attackers will invariably target these most visible
API Asset Governance: Identifying and Decommissioning Obsolete Endpoints Read More »