Why Secure Data Movement Is the Zero Trust Bottleneck Nobody Talks About

Every security program is betting on the same assumption: once a system is connected, the problem is solved. Open a ticket, stand up a gateway, push the data through. Done. That assumption is wrong. It is also a major reason Zero Trust programs stall. New research my team just published puts...

Why Third-Party Risk Is the Biggest Gap in Your Clients' Security Posture

The next major breach hitting your clients probably won't come from inside their walls. It'll come through a vendor they trust, a SaaS tool their finance team signed up for, or a subcontractor nobody in IT knows about. That's the new attack surface, and most organizations are underprepared for it...

The Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR): Six Trends You Can’t Ignore

Executive Summary The 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report reveals critical trends that security teams and leaders must address to protect their organizations against evolving cyber threats. Once again, Qualys contributed to this report to help unpack critical patterns and equip organizations...

Top 5 Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Predictions for 2020

We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this post. Compliance fatigue will spread among security professionals Being a source of ongoing controversy and debate, the...

Five Weakest Links in Cybersecurity That Target the Supply Chain

Matan Or-El, co-founder and CEO at Panorays Third-party breaches have become an epidemic as cybercriminals target the weakest link. Organizations such as BestBuy, Sears, Delta and even NYU Medical Center are just a few that have felt the impact of cyberattacks through third-party vendors. The...

Google's Data on Login Thefts

This is interesting research and data: With Google accounts as a case-study, we teamed up with the University of California, Berkeley to better understand how hijackers attempt to take over accounts in the wild. From March 2016 to March 2017, we analyzed several black markets to see how hijackers...

Ted Julian on Data Breach Response and Incident Analysis

Dennis Fisher talks with Ted Julian of CO3 about why even the more enlightened organizations still find themselves unprepared when hit with a data breach, the need for more public data to help analyze the nature and effects of breaches and how third-party breaches affect organizations. Podcast...