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Security Boulevard
Humor
Intern Did Exactly What He Was Told And Turned Off The Wrong Server
Servers Hated Mondays Until Techie Quit Quaffing Coffee In Their Company
Operations
How Data Centers Can Tame The AI Energy Beast While Boosting Performance
The Great Cloud Reversal: Why IT Teams Are Moving Back To Dedicated Infrastructure
Uptime Institute: Data Center Industry Faces Management Crisis Amid AI Transformation
Compliance
Why Gartner's Hype Cycle Recognition Signals the End of Legacy Cyber GRC Tools
Don't Panic: A Hitchhiker's Guide To The GRC Technology Galaxy
Fortinet News
Cloudflare News
Okta News
The Labubu Blind Box For Your Enterprise: Unmasking AI Agents Across Industries
Unified Requester Experience: Your One-Stop Shop For Access Requests
Software is essential in everyday products like cars, medical devices, airplanes, and IoT devices. Bugs and security flaws can have serious impacts on safety, the environment, and your reputation. Register
Security Boulevard
API Vulnerability, Unprotected Devices
Beyond the Browser: How Unprotected Devices are Fueling the API Security Crisis...more
Inside Job: Attackers Are Spoofing Emails With M365's Direct Send
Over the past three months, our threat analysts have noticed a significant spike in attackers abusing Microsoft 365's Direct Send feature-a tool intended for devices like printers or scanners to send internal emails without authentication....more
Mapping Mayhem: Security's Blind Spots In Identity Security
For years, primarily driven by regulatory compliance mandates, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, identity and access management has been treated as a regulatory compliance exercise, rather than the security exercise it should be - and simply checking off compliance requirements leaves many organizations with a dangerous and false sense of security. This is the central warning from the State of Attack Path Management report from SpecterOps, released today....more
Humor
Intern Did Exactly What He Was Told And Turned Off The Wrong Server
And was then blamed for not knowing about inaccurate labels...more
Servers Hated Mondays Until Techie Quit Quaffing Coffee In Their Company
Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots...more
Operations
How Data Centers Can Tame The AI Energy Beast While Boosting Performance
As AI drives unprecedented energy demands, smart data centers are using the very technology causing the surge to slash consumption and costs, writes Carsten Baumann....more
The Great Cloud Reversal: Why IT Teams Are Moving Back To Dedicated Infrastructure
IT professionals reveal a growing shift back to dedicated infrastructure as cloud costs spiral and compliance requirements expose shared environment limits....more
Uptime Institute: Data Center Industry Faces Management Crisis Amid AI Transformation
Uptime Institute's 2025 survey reveals an industry grappling with AI demands, rising costs, power constraints, and efficiency plateaus as multiple challenges converge....more
Compliance
Why Gartner's Hype Cycle Recognition Signals the End of Legacy Cyber GRC Tools
The cybersecurity and risk management landscape is evolving at an unprecedented rate. As digital transformation accelerates, regulatory demands multiply, and threats become increasingly sophisticated, organizations can no longer afford to rely on outdated approaches to governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)....more
The rise of Vibe Coding - using AI tools for code generation - has boosted software development by enhancing productivity and accessibility. However, this paradigm shift introduces significant security challenges that cannot be overlooked. Register
How To Integrate AI Into A GRC Strategy
A Fortune 500 financial services firm discovers their AI-enhanced governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform has been quietly sending sensitive control documentation to an external LLM for over six months....more
Don't Panic: A Hitchhiker's Guide To The GRC Technology Galaxy
In the vast and often absurd cosmos of modern business, organizations are rocketing through space with one hand on the controls and the other gripping a towel - buffeted by gravitational pulls of regulation, solar flares of risk events, and occasional wormholes of bad audits. Fortunately, they're not alone....more
Compliance and AIOps: The Role of GRC in IT Operations
Qmulos' Q-Compliance helps withCompl AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) by providing a data-driven, automated, and real-time approach to Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)....more
Fortinet News
In-Depth Analysis Of An Obfuscated Web Shell Script
This analysis is a follow-up to the investigation titled 'Intrusion into Middle East Critical National Infrastructure' (full report here), conducted by the FortiGuard Incident Response Team (FGIR), which investigated a long-term cyber intrusion targeting critical national infrastructure (CNI) in the Middle East....more
Inside The Toolshell Campaign
FortiGuard Labs is currently tracking multiple threat actors targeting on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers. This attack leverages a newly identified exploit chain dubbed "ToolShell."...more
Cloudflare News
Serverless Statusphere: A Walk Through Building Serverless Atproto Applications On Cloudflare's Developer Platform
Social media users are tired of losing their identity and data every time a platform shuts down or pivots. In the ATProto ecosystem - short for Authenticated Transfer Protocol - users own their data and identities....more
Okta News
How Auth0 Mitigates OWASP's Agentic AI Threats
AI-powered agents are changing the way we live, work, and interact with technology. A recent report found that 82% of companies plan to integrate AI agents in 1-3 years, whether it's assisting with customer service, automating processes, or even making decisions on our behalf....more
The Labubu Blind Box For Your Enterprise: Unmasking AI Agents Across Industries
Imagine you're a security or IT leader, and your organization's digital landscape is like a collection of Labubu blind boxes. Each box represents a new AI agent or automated workflow. You know there's a non-human identity (NHI) or machine learning model in there, and it's intended to do something beneficial, like accelerate the US Department of Defense's financial audits or analyze retail customer feedback. But, like with Labubu, its identity and full characteristics aren't immediately apparent until you look within....more
Unified Requester Experience: Your One-Stop Shop For Access Requests
Gaining swift access to critical tools while maintaining least privilege is a cornerstone of Okta Identity Governance. Since our product's inception, we've consistently innovated to help end-users get the access they need faster and to empower admins to create and manage access policies that uphold a strong security posture and eliminate standing privileges. Continuing this commitment, we're thrilled to introduce the Unified Requester Experience....more
It used to be that cloud native was just for the public cloud crowd-a smooth pour straight from the hyperscalers. But times have changed, and now cloud native is everywhere. Whether you're sipping from a public cloud, private cloud, hypervisor, or going full throttle on bare metal, there's no wrong way to enjoy it. Register
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