The Rise of Managed Risk Operations: How the New Qualys mROC Portal Helps Partners Scale the Risk Operations Center

Key Takeaways The mROC Portal acts as a portfolio-wide command center, giving partners unified visibility into high-risk customer environments, active threats, and critical exposures to drive prioritized, portfolio-wide risk management. Partners can filter risk, drill into any customer, and take...

5 Steps to Turn Compliance Checks into Audit Outcomes

Key Takeaways Audit readiness remains reactive in many organizations, even though security and compliance teams generate continuous findings, evidence, and control data across multiple systems. The real challenge is the gap between compliance activity and audit outcomes, where large volumes of da...

How to Prioritize Vulnerabilities Effectively: A Framework

Attackers don’t care about your massive backlog of "critical" vulnerabilities. They look for the path of least resistance—the one exploitable weakness that gives them a foothold into your network. If your vulnerability management program isn't thinking like an attacker, you're always one step...

What is CTEM? A Modern Approach to Cyber Risk

To effectively defend your organization, you need to think like an attacker. Attackers don’t care about a vulnerability’s CVSS score; they care about whether they can exploit it to reach a valuable target. Traditional security often misses this crucial context, leaving you to guess which of the...

The New Era of Application Security: Reasoning-Based Agents, Runtime Reality, and Risk Intelligence

Key Takeaways AI reasoning systems improve vulnerability detection in source code, but do not address the full spectrum of application security risk. Modern application security must account for APIs, runtime environments, and externally exposed assets beyond the source repository. Continuous...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

SBOM CVE Scanner - Enhanced Edition A comprehensive Python to...

5 Best Kenna Replacement Options to Consider

Attackers don't think in terms of isolated CVE scores. They look for the path of least resistance, chaining together multiple weaknesses across your entire attack surface to reach their goal. This is why the search for a Kenna replacement is so critical. It’s not just about finding a new tool to...

CVE-2026-27154

Discourse contains an XSS flaw in which a user’s full name can be evaluated as raw HTML when display_name_on_posts is true and prioritize_username_in_ux is false. The issue occurs when editing a post by a malicious user, potentially triggering XSS. Affected versions include prior to 2025.12.2, 20...

What is CTEM? A Guide to Proactive Cybersecurity

Most security teams are great at finding problems. The real challenge is figuring out which problems to solve first. When everything is a priority, nothing is. This is a common frustration that leaves teams feeling overworked and unsure if their efforts are making a real difference. A more...

6 Best Exposure Management Cybersecurity Platforms

How do you know if your security controls will actually stop an attack? You can have the best firewalls and endpoint protection on the market, but misconfigurations or undiscovered assets can render them useless. This is the fundamental question that traditional vulnerability management can't...

Rapid7 vs. Hive Pro: A Head-to-Head Comparison

See how Rapid7 and Hive Pro compare in features, setup, pricing, and threat intelligence to help you choose the right threat exposure management platform. Threat intelligence and Business context are the secret sauces that transform vulnerability management from a frantic game of whack-a-mole int...

Rapid7 vs. Hive Pro: A Head-to-Head Comparison

Threat intelligence and Business context are the secret sauces that transform vulnerability management from a frantic game of whack-a-mole into a strategic, focused risk management and security practice. Without it, you’re just staring at a massive list of vulnerabilities with little to no contex...

The End of the Road for Cisco Kenna: Take a Measured Path into Exposure Management

Cisco’s announcement that it will sunset Cisco Vulnerability Management Kenna marks a clear inflection point for many security teams. With end-of-sale and end-of-life timelines now defined, and no replacement offering on the roadmap, Kenna customers face an unavoidable decision window. Beyond the...

CTEM in Practice: Prioritization, Validation, and Outcomes That Matter

Cybersecurity teams increasingly want to move beyond looking at threats and vulnerabilities in isolation. It's not only about what could go wrong vulnerabilities or who might attack threats, but where they intersect in your actual environment to create real, exploitable exposure. Which exposures...

Exposure Assessment Platforms Signal a Shift in Focus

Gartner® doesn’t create new categories lightly. Generally speaking, a new acronym only emerges when the industry's collective "to-do list" has become mathematically impossible to complete. And so it seems that the introduction of the Exposure Assessment Platforms EAP category is a formal admissio...

The Ultimate CISO Dashboard: A Complete Guide

Traditional vulnerability management can feel like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. You patch one critical issue, and three more pop up, leaving your team feeling burnt out and perpetually behind. A modern dashboard changes the game entirely. By integrating real-world threat intelligence, it...

Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 Signal the Maturation of Risk-First Security Models

Key Takeaways Cyber risk management gets operationalized in 2026. Leading organizations move beyond visibility and frameworks to govern risk through prioritization, simulation, and deliberate action. Attack-path modeling matures into execution. Static views give way to dynamic, decision-driving...

Your VMDR Year in Review: Making Security Progress Visible and Actionable

Security Teams Rarely Stop to Reflect When a security program is working well, very little seems to happen. That is by design. There is no alert for the incident that was prevented. No visibility into the attack path that was quietly closed. No recognition for the vulnerability that was fixed...

6 Best Enterprise Security Platforms for 2026

If your security stack feels like a cluttered garage full of single-purpose tools, you’re not alone. You have one tool for endpoints, another for the network, and a few more for the cloud—none of which communicate effectively. This patchwork approach creates dangerous blind spots and buries your...

Firefox Security Vulnerabilities: An Expert Guide

For any vulnerability management team, the daily flood of alerts can be overwhelming. When your scanner flags dozens of new CVEs, it’s easy to see browser-related issues as lower priority. Yet, a critical flaw in a widely used application like Firefox can be the initial foothold an attacker needs...