Negotiating with the Board: Translating Active Risk into Financial Exposure

Security leaders rarely struggle to produce data. The challenge is turning that data into something the board can use to make decisions. Walk into a board meeting with a slide showing 1,200 critical vulnerabilities and 44 internet-facing assets, and you will likely see polite acknowledgment rathe...

6 Best Continuous Threat Monitoring Platforms Reviewed

Security teams are drowning in data but starving for insight. You have logs, network traffic, and endpoint activity pouring in from all directions, but more data doesn't automatically equal better security. Without context, it’s just noise that leads to alert fatigue and missed threats. An...

Fix SOC Blind Spots: See Threats to Your Industry & Country in Real Time

Modern security teams often feel like they're driving through fog with failing headlights. Threats accelerate, alerts multiply, and SOCs struggle to understand which dangers matter right now for their business. Breaking out of reactive defense is no longer optional. It's the difference between...

Defend Smarter, Not Harder: The Power of Curated Vulnerability Intelligence

Let’s be honest, we as an industry spend far too long responding to issues that simply don’t matter. Chasing down false positives, reviewing threat intelligence reports that bear no relation to our sector, and more recently reviewing vulnerability advisories of systems not deployed within the...

Coverage Plus Context Equals Intelligent Exposure Management

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs is the standardized directory of publicly known software flaws that attackers can exploit to carry out cyber attacks. Vulnerability management solutions scan for CVEs to give you a list of all the gaps in your attack surface, but the volume of new...

Microsoft shifts to a new threat actor naming taxonomy

April 19, 2023 update – We have published a JSON file mapping old threat actor names with their new names in the updated taxonomy, summarized here: https://aka.ms/threatactors. We also added hunting queries that Microsoft customers can use while transitioning to the new taxonomy. See the Resource...

Risk Score 101: What to look for in a Risk Score

Editors Note: Monica White, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is the Director of Product Marketing at Kenna Security When we at Kenna Security originally looked at adding a risk score to enumerate vulnerability risk in VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload, we knew that Common Vulnerability...

Dive Deep into VMDR

Qualys devoted the second day of the QSC USA 2020 virtual conference entirely to vulnerability management, detection and response VMDR, a critical area for the security and compliance of hybrid cloud IT environments. Mehul Revankar, VP of Product Management and Engineering for VMDR at Qualys, set...