How Leading Organizations Are Turning EDR Into Operational Resilience

Most organizations now recognize that endpoint protection alone is no longer sufficient. That's why adoption of endpoint detection and response EDR has accelerated rapidly in recent years. Organizations understand that modern attacks move faster, evade traditional prevention controls, and require...

DORA Compliance Cybersecurity Guide for Finance

DORA Compliance Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide for Financial Services Teams DORA compliance cybersecurity is now a board-level priority for banks, insurers, investment firms, payment providers, and the ICT providers that support them. The Digital Operational Resilience Act shifts the conversati...

Architectural Implications of the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

The UK Cyber Security and Resilience CS&R Bill represents the most significant reform of UK cyber legislation since the Network and Information Systems NIS Regulations 2018. While existing analysis has addressed the Bill's regulatory requirements, there is a critical gap in guidance on the...

Top 10 Cloud Compliance Tools for Enterprise Security and Audit Readiness in 2026

Key Takeaways Cloud compliance has shifted from periodic audits to a continuous operating requirement as hybrid and multi-cloud environments change faster than traditional controls can keep pace. Modern cloud compliance solutions provide continuous, automated compliance monitoring across AWS,...

From Tabletop to Turnkey: Building Cyber Resilience in Financial Services

Introduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice to an operational necessity to a prescriptive regulatory requirement. Crisis management or Tabletop exercises, for a long time relatively rare in the context of cybersecurity, have...

DORA Compliance in the Cloud Era: Insights from Deloitte and Wiz

How to address DORA compliance challenges with Wiz and Deloitte...

Fire Ant Exploits VMware Flaws to Compromise ESXi Hosts and vCenter Environments

Virtualization and networking infrastructure have been targeted by a threat actor codenamed Fire Ant as part of a prolonged cyber espionage campaign. The activity, observed this year, is primarily designed Now to infiltrate organizations' VMware ESXi and vCenter environments as well as network...

Aurora: Are Android Malware Classifiers Reliable under Distribution Shift?

The performance figures of modern drift-adaptive malware classifiers appear promising, but does this translate to genuine operational reliability? The standard evaluation paradigm primarily focuses on baseline performance metrics, neglecting confidence-error alignment and operational stability...

Simplifying DORA Compliance with the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform

Strengthening Resilience for the Financial Sector The Digital Operational Resilience Act DORA is a landmark EU regulation that establishes a unified framework for managing technology risk in the financial sector. It’s designed to ensure that banks, insurers, investment firms, and other financial...

From Good to Great: Mastering Day-2 Network Security Policy

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DORA: Strengthening Digital Resilience Through API Security

The Digital Operational Resilience Act DORA is one of the most significant cybersecurity regulations for financial institutions in the European Union EU. Failure to comply can have massive consequences, including financial penalties and forced operational downtime, meaning achieving DORA complian...

How Red Teaming Helps Meet DORA Requirements

The Digital Operational Resilience Act DORA sets strict EU rules for financial institutions and IT providers, emphasizing strong…...

Ongoing Cyber Threats to U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems Sector Facilities

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA, and the National Security Agency NSA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA that details ongoing cyber threats to U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems WWS Sector. This activity—which includes cyber...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Microsoft’s cybersecurity response to COVID-19

On February 25, 2020, Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer CISO Bret Arsenault was attending the RSA Conference in San Francisco when the city declared a state of emergency because of COVID-19. Shortly after flying back to Seattle, Bret learned of the first death from the coronavirus in...

Why operational resilience will be key in 2021, and how this impacts cybersecurity

The lessons we have learned during the past 12 months have demonstrated that the ability to respond to and bounce back from adversity in general, can impact the short-and long-term success of any organization. It can even dictate the leaders and laggards in any industry. When we take into...

Why operational resilience will be key in 2021, and how this impacts cybersecurity

The lessons we have learned during the past 12 months have demonstrated that the ability to respond to and bounce back from adversity in general, can impact the short-and long-term success of any organization. It can even dictate the leaders and laggards in any industry. When we take into...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Building operational resilience in a digital world

Operational resiliency is a topic of rising importance in the security community. Unplanned events, much like the one we are facing today, are reminders of how organizations can be prepared to respond to a cyberattack. Ian Coldwater and I explored a variety of options in my episode of Afternoon...

Operational resilience begins with your commitment to and investment in cyber resilience

Operational resilience cannot be achieved without a true commitment to and investment in cyber resilience. Global organizations need to reach the state where their core operations and services won’t be disrupted by geopolitical or socioeconomic events, natural disasters, and cyber events if they...