What Is Hive Pro’s End-to-End CTEM Solution?

The difference between a good security program and a great one often comes down to context. Without it, a list of 10,000 vulnerabilities is just a list. But when you can see that three of those vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by a threat group targeting your industry, your priorities...

Top 10 Threat Actors: Their Tactics & Motivations

The world of cybercrime has its own cast of characters, each with a unique script. Some are patient spies, like state-sponsored groups that move silently within a network for months to gather intelligence. Others are loud and aggressive, like ransomware gangs that operate like ruthless businesses...

What is Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)? A Guide

If you’re on a vulnerability management team, you’re likely drowning in a sea of CVEs. Your scanners produce massive lists of potential weaknesses, but with limited time and resources, which ones do you fix first? A high CVSS score doesn't always translate to real-world risk. You need context to...

How Threat Intelligence Transforms Vulnerability Management

Your security team isn't just fixing technical flaws; they're protecting the business from tangible risks. The problem is, a list of thousands of CVEs doesn't communicate business impact very well. It’s just noise until you can connect a vulnerability to a potential outcome. Threat intelligence...

Build a Proactive Vulnerability Management Program

You wouldn't build a fortress without a blueprint. Yet, many organizations approach cybersecurity by simply buying tools—the digital bricks and mortar—without a clear plan for how they all fit together. This leaves gaps in your defenses that attackers are quick to find. A vulnerability management...

What Is a “Next Generation” Vulnerability Management Solution?

You already know that running vulnerability scans is a fundamental part of cybersecurity. But what happens after the scan is finished? A long list of potential weaknesses without context is more overwhelming than helpful. A modern vulnerability management system goes far beyond simple scanning. I...

The Journey from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management: A Critical and Timely Shift

After spending close to 6 years analyzing the cybersecurity market and authoring multiple Magic Quadrant reports, I've witnessed countless technology and market transitions and evolutions. On-prem deployment to SaaS Anti-virus to Endpoint Protection Platform EPP to EDR to XDR VM to RBVM and many...

What Are Attack Surface Intelligence Exposures?

Do you know every single digital asset your organization owns? For most security leaders, the honest answer is no. Between shadow IT, forgotten development servers, and complex cloud environments, your true attack surface is full of blind spots. These unknown and unmanaged assets are where...

5 Best Threat Exposure Management Tools for 2025

A long list of vulnerabilities without context isn't a security strategy—it's just noise. Legacy vulnerability scanners are great at finding potential flaws, but they often fail to answer the most important question: "What should we fix right now?" This is why Threat Exposure Management TEM...

What Is a Platform for Continuous Exposure Assessment?

You can’t protect what you don’t know you have. In an environment of sprawling cloud instances, remote endpoints, and shadow IT, gaining a complete and accurate picture of your attack surface is a massive challenge. Periodic scans only provide a snapshot in time, missing assets that spin up and...

The Exposure Convergence: Why Identity, Infrastructure, and Intelligence Are Converging

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. The cybersecurity industry is experiencing a fundamental convergence around "exposure management" ...

Threat Exposure as a Narrative: If Attackers Tell a Story, Why Don’t We?

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Security teams are losing the communication battle to cybercriminals who intuitively understand...

The Psychology of Exposure: Why Security Teams Ignore What’s Right in Front of Them

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Your security team sees everything and notices nothing. Drowning in alerts, CVEs, dashboards, risk...

The Exposure Validation Revolution: From Hoping to Knowing

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Click right here to hear it all on the Exposure Validation Revolution! Imagine your security team...

Boolka: From Scripting to Sophisticated Malware Attacks

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BadSpace Backdoor Infiltrates via Fake Browser Updates

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PHP RCE Flaw Opens a Gateway for TellYouThePass Ransomware

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Attacker Employs Multi-Stage Malware Strategy to Target Ukraine

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Deciphering LilacSquid’s Strategies for Long-Term Data Theft

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DJVU Ransomware’s Variant Emerges Disguised as Cracked Software

Summary: A variant of the DJVU ransomware, disguising itself as cracked software, has emerged and is demanding a ransom of $980 for decryption. These incidents involve the infiltration of systems by various commodity loaders and infostealers, with the adversarys primary objectives being data...

Revealing Vulnerabilities’ True Dimensions: Illuminating Your Detection Surface with HivePro Uni5

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Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 3 July to 9 July 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForceLabs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of eight attacks executed, a zero-day vulnerability in the WordPress Plugin, and thre...

RA Group’s Custom Ransomware Hits US & South Korea

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The emergence of the RA ransomware group highlights the utilization of the recently leaked Babuk ransomware source code as they employ it to develop their variant of the malware. To receive real-time...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 27 March to 2 April 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, they identified a total of Nine attacks that were executed...

Empowering CTEM Program with Contextualized Vulnerability Prioritization

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Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 31 October- 06 November 2022

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MedusaLocker Ransomware is back targeting organizations in US

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Since 2019, a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS known as MedusaLocker has been seen to target organizations, mostly in the healthcare sector by exploiting Remote Desktop Protocol RDP vulnerabilities...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 20 June – 26 June 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 413 14 4 121 19 33 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The last week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 413 vulnerabilities out of which ...

API Security Testing and Vulnerability Assessment

APIs now carry more sensitive data than traditional web interfaces. Payment details, health records, authentication tokens, and customer databases all flow through API endpoints that attackers can probe without ever touching a browser. A single misconfigured endpoint can expose millions of record...

What Makes a Vulnerability Management Dashboard Effective?

Let's be direct: a high CVSS score doesn't mean a vulnerability is a top priority for your organization. Attackers don't care about theoretical scores; they care about clear, exploitable pathways to your critical assets. If your vulnerability management dashboard is only showing you generic...

Vulnerability Assessment vs Penetration Testing: What Security Leaders Need to Know

Your organization runs quarterly vulnerability scans. You get a report with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of findings. Your team patches what they can and moves on. Six months later, you bring in a penetration testing firm, and they walk right through your defenses using a chain of...

Cybersecurity Metrics Every CISO Should Report to the Board

Cybersecurity Metrics Every CISO Should Report to the Board After twenty years of leading security teams and presenting to boards at companies like Tripwire and RiskIQ, I can tell you this: the metrics that matter to your SOC team are not the metrics that matter in the boardroom. Boards do not wa...

Qualys vs Hive Pro: How They Compare on Key Features

Finding vulnerabilities is only half the battle. How do you know which ones pose a real, immediate threat to your organization? A high CVSS score doesn't always translate to high risk in your specific environment. This is where Breach and Attack Simulation BAS comes in, actively testing your...

How to Prioritize Vulnerabilities Effectively: A Framework

Attackers don’t care about your massive backlog of "critical" vulnerabilities. They look for the path of least resistance—the one exploitable weakness that gives them a foothold into your network. If your vulnerability management program isn't thinking like an attacker, you're always one step...

AI Is Not Your Security Stack

There's a debate I keep hearing in security circles: now that large language models like Claude are so capable, do we still need dedicated cybersecurity tools? I understand the appeal of the question. AI can summarize threat reports, help write detection logic, interpret vulnerability advisories,...

Attackers Don’t Need Signatures. Neither Should Your Defense.

How signatureless detection closes the most dangerous gap in enterprise vulnerability management — and why CISOs are rethinking their approach to exposure. Continuous Threat Exposure Management The Hidden Limitation Costing You Sleep Every CISO faces the same unanswered question after a board...

What Is Hive Pro’s End-to-End CTEM Solution?

The difference between a good security program and a great one often comes down to context. Without it, a list of 10,000 vulnerabilities is just a list. But when you can see that three of those vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by a threat group targeting your industry, your priorities...

The Ultimate CISO Dashboard: A Complete Guide

Traditional vulnerability management can feel like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. You patch one critical issue, and three more pop up, leaving your team feeling burnt out and perpetually behind. A modern dashboard changes the game entirely. By integrating real-world threat intelligence, it...

Proactive Malware Threat Management: A How-To Guide

Trying to defend against every potential malware attack is like trying to boil the ocean. You can’t be everywhere at once, and treating every vulnerability as a top priority is a surefire way to burn out your team. The old way of reacting to every alert simply doesn't scale. A modern defense...

The 5 Stages of Cyber Threat Exposure Management

Think of your security posture like a fortress. Traditional vulnerability management gives you a long list of every potential weakness—a loose stone here, a weak gate there. A cyber threat exposure management CTEM program acts as your chief strategist, analyzing intelligence to show you exactly...

What Is Security Controls Validation? An Essential Guide

You wouldn’t wait for a real fire to find out if your smoke detectors work or if your team knows the evacuation route. You run fire drills. So why would you wait for a real cyberattack to test your security defenses? This is the simple, powerful idea behind security controls validation. It’s the...

Cyber Risk Prioritization: A Practical Guide

For years, security teams have relied on static scores like CVSS to guide their patching efforts. While helpful, these scores only tell part of the story. They show a vulnerability's potential severity but lack the real-world context of what attackers are actually doing right now. A theoretical...

How BAS Improves Vulnerability Management (And Why)

A vulnerability without context is just a data point. A medium-severity flaw might seem like a low priority, but what if you knew it was being actively used in a new ransomware campaign targeting your industry? This is why threat intelligence is so crucial. The answer to how does BAS improve...

What is Continuous Threat Exposure Management? A Guide For CISOs and Vulnerability Teams

Traditional vulnerability management has taught us to look for weaknesses inside our own walls. But what if we flipped the script and started looking at our defenses from the outside in, just like an attacker does? Attackers don't care about CVSS scores; they care about pathways. They look for th...

How to Modernize Your Vulnerability Management Program A Helpful Resource Guide For CISOS and Vuln teams

Running a vulnerability scan can feel like opening Pandora's box. You’re suddenly faced with a report listing thousands of potential weaknesses, and the pressure to "fix everything" is immense. But this approach is a recipe for burnout, leaving your team chasing low-impact issues while a real...

What is EPSS? How to Correctly Correctly Prioritize Vulnerabilities

Let's cut right to it. Your vulnerability management team has a list of vulnerabilities longer than your arm, and every single one seems to be a top priority. But you don't have the time or resources to fix everything at once. You need a way to focus on what truly matters right now. This is the...

The 5 Stages of Continuous Threat Exposure Management

Attackers don’t care about your compliance reports or the sheer number of vulnerabilities you have. They look for a single, exploitable path to your most valuable assets. To defend effectively, you need to see your organization through their eyes. This is the core principle behind continuous thre...

Rating The Best Vulnerability Management Tools for Security Pros

A home security system doesn't just tell you that a window is unlocked; it tells you which window, whether someone is actively trying to open it, and in which room your most valuable possessions are stored. It gives you the context to act decisively. Similarly, a modern vulnerability management...

What Is Exposure Management? A Proactive Guide

Attackers don’t see your organization as a list of CVEs. They see a web of interconnected systems, looking for the path of least resistance to their target. They find one small weakness, then another, and chain them together to create a breach. So why would we defend our networks any differently?...

A Guide to Exposure Management Cybersecurity Best Practices

Attackers don't think in terms of CVE scores. They look for the path of least resistance, whether it's a forgotten server, a misconfigured cloud bucket, or an exposed API. While your team is busy prioritizing a long list of software flaws, a real threat could be exploiting a simple oversight that...