Adversary Research

Infrastructure reuse patterns in financially motivated ransomware campaigns — Q1 2026 analysis

Four distinct ransomware operators were observed reusing hosting infrastructure across campaigns targeting manufacturing and logistics firms. The...

2026-04-15 — 12 min read
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Attack Surface

Attack Surface Management Is Not Vulnerability Scanning

Security teams conflate ASM with vulnerability scanning. The distinction matters operationally — they solve different problems, start from...

2026-04-10 — 9 min read
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Attack Surface

The subdomain problem: why 34% of exposed assets in our dataset belong to services organizations no longer use

Analysis of 2,000+ external attack surface scans reveals a consistent pattern — organizations have, on average, 34% more exposed assets than...

2026-04-03 — 8 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Why Threat Intelligence Feeds Alone Won't Protect You

Raw IOC feeds without asset correlation produce alert fatigue, not security. The gap between a feed subscription and operational intelligence is...

2026-03-28 — 10 min read
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Vulnerability Intelligence

CVSS is broken for operational prioritization — here's what we use instead

A base CVSS score of 9.8 tells you a vulnerability is severe in the abstract. It tells you nothing about whether anyone is actively exploiting it,...

2026-03-21 — 10 min read
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Incident Response

The 72-Hour Window — Incident Response Timelines That Actually Work

The first 72 hours of an incident are where containment either happens or doesn't. What effective IR timelines look like when conditions are worst...

2026-03-14 — 11 min read
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Attack Surface

Shadow IT Is Your Biggest Attack Vector (And You Can't Ban It)

Every policy against unauthorized tools gets circumvented. Shadow IT isn't an HR problem — it's a visibility problem. How to manage exposure...

2026-02-27 — 9 min read
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Adversary Research

How We Detected a Supply Chain Compromise Before It Triggered

A technical walk-through of a real supply chain compromise detection. What the indicators looked like, why the pattern was suspicious, and how...

2026-02-06 — 12 min read
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Architecture

Zero Trust Architecture — What It Means Beyond the Marketing

Zero Trust has been colonized by vendor marketing. The underlying model is technically coherent. Here's what the principles actually say and what...

2026-01-16 — 10 min read
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Third-Party Risk

The CISO's Blind Spot: Third-Party Risk in SaaS Integrations

Every SaaS integration is a trust delegation. Most CISOs can name their top 10 vendors. Almost none can account for what those vendors connect to...

2025-12-18 — 9 min read
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Adversary Research

Ransomware Economics — Why Attackers Target Mid-Market Companies

Ransomware groups make targeting decisions based on risk-adjusted return. Mid-market organizations offer a specific risk-to-reward profile that...

2025-11-20 — 10 min read
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Security Strategy

Building a Threat Model That Survives Contact With Reality

Most threat models are made once and never revisited. A model that doesn't track how your environment and adversary landscape change is a...

2025-11-06 — 10 min read
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Vulnerability Intelligence

What 500 Penetration Tests Revealed About Enterprise Security Posture

Aggregate findings across 500 enterprise engagements reveal consistent, exploitable patterns. The same weaknesses appear regardless of industry,...

2025-10-09 — 12 min read
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