New Report Explains Why CASB Solutions Fail to Address Shadow SaaS and How to Fix It

Whether it's CRMs, project management tools, payment processors, or lead management tools - your workforce is using SaaS applications by the pound. Organizations often rely on traditional CASB solutions for protecting against malicious access and data exfiltration, but these fall short for...

‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge

Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships...

Why The Modern Google Workspace Needs Unified Security

The Need For Unified Security Google Workspace is where teams collaborate, share ideas, and get work done. But while it makes work easier, it also creates new security challenges. Cybercriminals are constantly evolving, finding ways to exploit misconfigurations, steal sensitive data, and hijack...

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...

AI and Security - A New Puzzle to Figure Out

AI is everywhere now, transforming how businesses operate and how users engage with apps, devices, and services. A lot of applications now have some Artificial Intelligence inside, whether supporting a chat interface, intelligently analyzing data or matching user preferences. No question AI...

AI Security is API Security: What CISOs and CIOs Need to Know

Just when CIOs and CISOs thought they were getting a grip on API security, AI came along and shook things up. In the past few years, a huge number of organizations have adopted AI, realizing innumerable productivity, operational, and efficiency benefits. However, they’re also having to deal with...

On Generative AI Security

Microsoft's AI Red Team just published "Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products." Their blog post lists "three takeaways," but the eight lessons in the report itself are more useful: 1. Understand what the system can do and where it is applied. 2. You don't have to compute gradients t...

Cybersecurity 2025: Qualys’ Predictions for Navigating the Evolving Threat Landscape

Cybersecurity in 2024 was a year of contrasts—marked by rising threats and groundbreaking innovations. The surge in ransomware attacks and exploitation of vulnerabilities exposed weaknesses in core systems and software, while the rapid adoption of AI tools brought both risks and opportunities to...

Do we still have to keep doing it like this?

Welcome to the first edition of the Threat Source newsletter for 2025. Upon returning to work this week from my Lindt chocolate reindeer coma, my first task was to write this newsletter. As I stared at a blank template hoping for inspiration to suddenly strike, I did what any security professiona...

DigiEver Fix That IoT Thing!

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Unlocking Google Workspace Security: Are You Doing Enough to Protect Your Data?

Google Workspace has quickly become the productivity backbone for businesses worldwide, offering an all-in-one suite with email, cloud storage and collaboration tools. This single-platform approach makes it easy for teams to connect and work efficiently, no matter where they are, enabling seamles...

Enhancing Cloud-Native Security: Qualys Introduces Scanning for Container-Optimized OS in Google Kubernetes Engine

As organizations move from traditional workloads to containerized environments, they encounter new security challenges. Containers bring added complexity that traditional security tools often struggle to manage, largely because of their transient nature and the shared responsibility between the...

API Attack Surface: How to secure it and why it matters

Managing an organization’s attack surface is a complex problem involving asset discovery, vulnerability analysis, and continuous monitoring. There are multiple well-defined solutions to secure the attack surface, such as extended detection and response EDR or XDR, security information & event...

5 Key Insights from the Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

As the cloud landscape continues to evolve, organizations face the growing challenge of securing their cloud-native applications. We feel the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms CNAPP provides invaluable insights into the latest trends and technologies that...

Practical Guidance For Securing Your Software Supply Chain

The heightened regulatory and legal pressure on software-producing organizations to secure their supply chains and ensure the integrity of their software should come as no surprise. In the last several years, the software supply chain has become an increasingly attractive target for attackers who...

CISA Releases Guidance on Single Sign-On (SSO) Adoption for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: (SMBs)

Today, CISA released Barriers to Single Sign-On SSO Adoption for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities, a detailed report exploring challenges to SSO adoption by small and medium-sized businesses SMBs. The report also identifies potential ways to overcome the...

Securing AI Development in the Cloud: Navigating the Risks and Opportunities

AI-TRiSM - Trust, Risk and Security Management in the Age of AI Co-authored by Lara Sunday and Pojan Shahrivar As artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML technologies continue to advance and proliferate, organizations across industries are investing heavily in these transformative...

6 insights from Microsoft’s 2024 state of multicloud risk report to evolve your security strategy

Multicloud computing has become the foundation for digital businesses, with 86% of organizations having already adopted a multicloud approach.1 However, for all its benefits around increased agility, flexibility, and choice, we also see unique challenges with multicloud—including the need to mana...

Elevating Security: Qualys Unveils First Solution for Scanning AWS Bottlerocket in Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS

With this new offering, Qualys establishes itself as the first and only vendor solution with the unique ability to scan AWS Bottlerocket instances directly using the Qualys Cloud Agent and TotalCloud Agent-less Snapshot-Based Scan. This innovative capability empowers organizations to...

NIST Warns of Security and Privacy Risks from Rapid AI System Deployment

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is calling attention to the privacy and security challenges that arise as a result of increased deployment of artificial intelligence AI systems in recent years. "These security and privacy challenges include the potential for adversari...