Why Serverless Risk Demands Identity-Aware Security at Cloud Scale

Key Takeaways Serverless shifts security risk from infrastructure to identity, permissions, and configuration, where small design choices can have an outsized impact. Short-lived cloud credentials reduce persistence but remain powerful; when exposed, they enable authenticated access, escalation,...

A Survey of Agentic AI and Cybersecurity: Challenges, Opportunities and Use-Case Prototypes

Agentic AI marks an important transition from single-step generative models to systems capable of reasoning, planning, acting, and adapting over long-lasting tasks. By integrating memory, tool use, and iterative decision cycles, these systems enable continuous, autonomous workflows in real-world...

How BAS Helps Threat Exposure Management: A Complete Guide

Your vulnerability scanner just produced a report with hundreds of "critical" CVEs. Now what? For most security teams, this is where the guessing game begins. You know you can't fix everything at once, so you're forced to make tough calls based on CVSS scores and gut feelings, all while hoping yo...

What is Patch Management Automation and Why It Matters

Executive Summary Environments rarely stay as orderly as they begin. New workloads, faster releases, and growing attack surfaces stretch manual patching beyond its limits. The real risk emerges in the widening gap between spotting a vulnerability and fixing it. Automated patch management closes...

9 Key Areas to Monitor for Potential Security Threats

The old "castle-and-moat" approach to security is a thing of the past. Your organization's perimeter is no longer a single, defensible line; it's a distributed and porous collection of remote employees, cloud services, and third-party vendors. Every connection is a potential entry point, and your...

What Is Attack Surface Mapping And Why It’s Critical To your Security Program

You might think an attack surface mapper is just another name for a vulnerability scanner, but they serve two very different purposes. A scanner tests the assets you already know about for specific weaknesses. An attack surface mapper answers a more fundamental question: What assets do I even hav...

Is Your Google Workspace as Secure as You Think it is?

The New Reality for Lean Security Teams If you're the first security or IT hire at a fast-growing startup, you've likely inherited a mandate that's both simple and maddeningly complex: secure the business without slowing it down. Most organizations using Google Workspace start with an environment...

Quantum-Resistant Networks Using Post-Quantum Cryptography

Quantum networks rely on both quantum and classical channels for coordinated operation. Current architectures employ entanglement distribution and key exchange over quantum channels but often assume that classical communication is sufficiently secure. In practice, classical channels protected by...

Cloud Attack Surface Management Mapping 101

Before an attacker launches an assault, they do their homework. Their first step is to meticulously map your digital footprint, searching for the path of least resistance—an exposed database, an unpatched server, or a forgotten subdomain. The reality is that your attack surface is already being...

Beyond CVSS: Critical CVE Vulnerabilities Analysis

Attackers don't care about your CVSS scores. They care about finding a path into your network. That path might not be a single, glaring "critical" vulnerability. Often, it’s a chain of lower-severity weaknesses on overlooked assets that, when combined, give them the keys to the kingdom. This is w...

The Difference Between Vulnerability and Exposure Management Explained

To build a truly effective defense, you have to learn to see your organization through an attacker's eyes. Attackers don't care about your internal vulnerability scan reports or how many patches you applied last week. They look for one thing: an open door. They search for an accessible pathway th...

What CISA’s BOD 25-01 Means for API Security and How Wallarm Can Help

The US government has taken another significant step towards strengthening cloud security with the release of CISA’s Binding Operational Directive BOD 25-01. Aimed at improving the security posture of federal cloud environments, BOD 25-01 mandates robust configuration, visibility, and control...

Securing CI/CD workflows with Wazuh

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment CI/CD refers to practices that automate how code is developed and released to different environments. CI/CD pipelines are fundamental in modern software development, ensuring code is consistently tested, built, and deployed quickly and...

Engineering Risk-Aware, Security-By-Design Frameworks for Assurance of Large-Scale Autonomous AI Models

As AI models scale to billions of parameters and operate with increasing autonomy, ensuring their safe, reliable operation demands engineering-grade security and assurance frameworks. This paper presents an enterprise-level, risk-aware, security-by-design approach for large-scale autonomous AI...

Federal Data, Meet your New Bodyguard: DSPM joins Wiz for Government

Wiz is excited to bring Data Security Posture Management DSPM into our FedRAMP authorized offering. DSPM enables organizations requiring FedRAMP to automate classification, policy enforcement, and continuous monitoring for their sensitive cloud data...

Introducing Rapid7’s Exposure Assessment Platform Buyer’s Guide

Cybersecurity threats are evolving at an unprecedented pace, making it imperative for organizations to stay ahead of attackers with proactive security measures. To help organizations navigate this rapidly changing threat landscape, we are excited to introduce the Exposure Assessment Platform EAP...

Don't Overlook These 6 Critical Okta Security Configurations

Given Okta's role as a critical part of identity infrastructure, strengthening Okta security is essential. This article covers six key Okta security settings that provide a strong starting point, along with recommendations for implementing continuous monitoring of your Okta security posture. With...

Navigating the Future: Key IT Vulnerability Management Trends 

As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, proactive vulnerability management has become a critical priority for managed service providers MSPs and IT teams. Recent trends indicate that organizations increasingly prioritize more frequent IT security vulnerability assessments to identify...

How AI Is Transforming IAM and Identity Security

In recent years, artificial intelligence AI has begun revolutionizing Identity Access Management IAM, reshaping how cybersecurity is approached in this crucial field. Leveraging AI in IAM is about tapping into its analytical capabilities to monitor access patterns and identify anomalies that coul...

Leveraging Wazuh for Zero Trust security

Zero Trust security changes how organizations handle security by doing away with implicit trust while continuously analyzing and validating access requests. Contrary to perimeter-based security, users within an environment are not automatically trusted upon gaining access. Zero Trust security...