You’re only as secure as your last evaluation
The updated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) represents a critical evolution in the Department of War (DoW) st...
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Cybersecurity needs a new operating model
For decades, cybersecurity has been built around one assumption: defenders had enough time to: Discover vulnerabilities....
The exploit window is shrinking. Most security workflows are not
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and attacker weaponization faster than most organizations can...
CTEM isn’t failing. It’s not being operationalized
Cybersecurity is full of frameworks, regulations, and directives that tell organizations what they should do. Zero Trust, NIST,...
Autonomy is earned, not claimed
After more than 300,000 production penetration tests (pentests), our company has learned something that may surprise people wat...
Attackers hid malware inside Oracle Database after SQL injection breach
Huntress has documented a case where the Oracle database itself became the malware host. The security firm disclosed a campa...
Verification closes the loop
Most organizations assume remediation reduces risk. It’s a reasonable assumption. A vulnerability is identified, a patch is...
Why the ‘rogue AI’ problem will lead to an era of headaches for security practitioners
Shortly after OpenAI publicly acknowledged the Hugging Face breach on July 21, Reuters journalist Raphael Satter called me for...
Practical lessons from deploying AI securely at scale
When I first started working on enterprise AI security initiatives, I expected the biggest challenges to be technical. I assume...
Evidence points to cybercriminals stepping up their AI game
More evidence is emerging about how AI is becoming part of the day-to-day workflow for cybercriminals, from building and refining...
Report: Passkey security issues could allow account takeover
Given the widespread enterprise adoption of passkeys to replace passwords, a Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 report disclosing ways...
Enterprise passkey security under threat from malware
Given the widespread enterprise adoption of passkeys to replace passwords, a Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 report disclosing ways...
Security validation should begin where attackers begin
Modern attacks increasingly begin with the web application. Customer portals, partner platforms, APIs, external business app...
Why security validation must follow the attack path
For years organizations have strengthened their security posture by investing in specialized tools for applications, identities...
Critical Paperclip bugs expose AI agent trust failures
Security researchers are warning against trust assumptions in AI security with newly detailed flaws affecting the open-source A...
OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents resorted to deception in new cybersecurity incidents
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos 5 have been implicated in another series of AI security incidents after the models...
One C2 kit. 30 customers. 2 governments
I was mapping the command-and-control infrastructure behind a state-linked intrusion set when the query came back and effective...
Your orchestration framework choice is a security decision, not just an engineering one
Comparisons of LangChain, CrewAI and AutoGen are easy to find — dozens of guides this year cover the same ground: developer exp...
Why you need a reliable AI agent kill switch
Recent high-profile rogue agent incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic underscore the fact that organizations can’t put blind t...
AI threat report: Rogue agents, workflow attacks
Malicious AI use and threats to AI systems are requiring cyber teams to double down on security fundamentals and rethink the fu...