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Identity: Your Weapon Against AI-Driven Fraud – eBook → TOFU | AI-driven fraud, cost of friction
AI is supercharging fraud with deepfakes, synthetic identities, and automated account takeover attempts that outpace legacy controls. This ebook explains how an identity-first fraud strategy—grounded in behavioral biometrics, liveness detection, and adaptive risk-based authentication—can stop AI-powered attacks while minimizing customer friction a...
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Identity Trends for 2026 and Beyond – eBook → MOFU | IAM Trend
Trust is eroding, and identity has become the foundation of security, experience, and verification. Read Ping Identity and Deloitte’s thoughts on where identity is headed in 2026 and beyond.
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AI Agents Explained to Fraud Leaders – eBook → MOFU | Identity for AI
As AI agents begin initiating transactions, making decisions, and interacting with customers on behalf of humans, traditional fraud models that assume a single human user per interaction start to break down. This ebook demystifies the emerging landscape of AI agents, outlines where they introduce new fraud and abuse patterns, and shows how strong,...
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Closing the Cybersecurity Leadership Gap: How to Move from Security Operations to Strategic Risk Management
Despite record-breaking cybersecurity investments, many organizations still struggle to translate security activity into meaningful risk reduction. This white paper examines the growing gap between operational security capabilities and strategic leadership—and why technology alone isn’t enough.  Key takeaways include: Why increased security...
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From Alert Overload to Autonomous Defense: How AI Agents Are Transforming MDR and the Modern SOC
As cyberattacks grow faster and more sophisticated, security teams face mounting pressure to detect and respond in real time. This white paper explores how Sophos is operationalizing agentic AI within Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to meet that challenge. By deploying autonomous AI agents for triage and investigation, Sophos reduces alert no...
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IAM for MSSPs: Practical insights for CISOs and security teams
As organizations partner with MSSPs for IAM, security leaders must ensure a seamless, secure, and effective deployment.
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IAM for MSSPs in real-world deployments
As organizations spread their assets across cloud, hybrid, and remote environments, the challenge of managing human and machine identities is outgrowing traditional in-house approaches.
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The cyber risk playbook for the AI threat era
AI isn’t a novelty anymore. For most organizations, it’s an integral tool, but organizations are reporting an increase in AI cyber attacks over the past year. Unfortunately, many organizations are unprepared to meet this new era of risks, with many gaps in third-party vendor visibility, a lack of clear governance, and a shortage of personnel with ...
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The Arctic Wolf Essential Guide to the Agentic SOC
Read our vendor-neutral blueprint for designing, building, and operating AI-driven security operations.
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Arctic Wolf 2026 Threat Report
Gain insight from real-world incidents our teams investigated to see how attackers operate and which controls consistently buy defenders time.
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The State of AI and API Security: Navigating the Agentic Era
As autonomous agents become embedded across enterprise systems, APIs have evolved into the control plane of the AI-driven economy.But while innovation accelerates, security is struggling to keep up. In fact, 79% of organizations report increased executive scrutiny on AI security risks, underscoring how quickly AI has moved from a technical concern...
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Legacy SOAR Migration Customer Case Study
Customer Story: Global Insurer Replaced Legacy SOAR with Agentic Automation, Achieving <30-Seconds Incident Response  A global insurance and reinsurance provider managing billions in premiums replaced its legacy SOAR platforms with BlinkOps’ agentic automation. The legacy tools suffered from partial automation, poor integrations, and minimal...
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New 2026 Agentic SecOps Report
AI Automated Triage. The Response Gap Remains.  Your SOC processes more alerts than ever. Detection improved. But are you actually more secure?  The data reveals the challenge. Before AI, SOCs processed 200 alerts daily and made 50 decisions. Now AI handles 2,000 alerts, auto-closes 1,700, and escalates 300 requiring human judgment. You auto...
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How to Switch Your MSSP/MDR Provider Without Losing Coverage, Context, or Your Mind
Most security teams don’t switch providers because they want to; they switch because they’ve spent months compensating for missed detections, vague reports, and a SOC that stopped evolving. But the switch itself carries real risk: gaps in coverage during transition, loss of detection logic and tuning history, and the chance you’ll end up in the sa...
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AI SOC Integration Guide: Connect Your SIEM, EDR, and Cloud Without Replacing Existing Systems
Your SOC runs CrowdStrike for endpoints, Splunk or Sentinel for logs, Okta for identity, and at least one cloud console. Each tool generates its own alerts, its own dashboards, and its own investigation workflows. The result: 45+ tools generating noise your team manually stitches together, 45 – 70% of it false positives, while analysts spend 10 – ...
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Cloud security: The AI effect and how to proceed
AI is transforming cloud environments and introducing new risks. This eBook explores AI’s impact on cloud identity, data security, and policy enforcement in hybrid systems.
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Updating cloud governance for AI challenges
AI is transforming cloud environments but also introducing new risks. To secure AI in the cloud, we must strengthen identity management, protect data pipelines, expand governance policies and improve hybrid visibility.
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2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Mapping Threats and Trends Abstract
Cyber activity in 2025 showed a clear shift toward faster, more coordinated attacks driven by identity abuse, supply-chain compromise, SaaS exploitation, and AI-enabled tactics. As attackers increasingly target business-critical platforms and trusted access paths, security teams need a clearer understanding of the threat patterns shaping 2026. ...
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Aligning Security Operations to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
MITRE ATT&CK has become a critical framework for understanding how modern attackers operate. By mapping adversary tactics and techniques across the attack lifecycle, security teams can better align their detection, response, and threat intelligence strategies to real-world threats. However, many organizations still rely on manual processes ...
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The Resilient Enterprise: Using AI to Connect Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Today’s risk landscape has outpaced traditional GRC. When threats evolve daily but oversight stays manual, even the best teams get buried in repetitive work that doesn’t scale. AI changes that. In this report from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, you’ll learn more about an approach to GRC that prioritizes a single platform that connec...
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Cyber defense is a team sport
Cyber defense demands collaboration among governments, the private sector, and operators of critical infrastructure, giving defenders a real-time advantage against threat actors.
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Better threat intelligence between the public and private sectors
To win at cybersecurity, you need a team. Cyber defense is no longer a single-organization responsibility. Threat actors collaborate across borders,industries and criminal ecosystems. They share exploit kits, trade stolen credentials, reuse infrastructure and refine playbooks in near real time. Meanwhile, defenders often operate in silos separa...
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Navigating cybersecurity with an effective SOC
Uncover whether an in-house, hybrid, or outsourced SOC model is best for your business.  Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are essential for detecting and responding to cyber threats, but building the right model isn’t one-size-fits-all. With talent shortages and rising threat complexity, many organizations are rethinking how to scale security...
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The State of Ransomware in Enterprise 2025
1,733 IT and cybersecurity leaders reveal the reality of ransomware for enterprise organizations.   This inaugural report examines the evolving causes and consequences of ransomware attacks on enterprise (1,000+ employee) organizations.  It also sheds light on the operational factors that left enterprise organizations exposed to attacks and ...
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Quantum-resilient convergence: The shared defense of AI, space, and critical infrastructure
In the coming decade, quantum computing will not only break many of the encryption algorithms we use today, but also have a huge impact on our critical-infrastructure, AI, and satellite-ground-support systems. Dr. David Mussington explains what we should expect and how we can plan for it.
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The Total Economic Impact™ of Rocket Secure Host Access
This Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, commissioned by Rocket Software, evaluates the financial and operational benefits of deploying Rocket Secure Host Access. The study highlights how the solution modernizes mainframe and host system access, enabling secure, scalable, and efficient operations without disrupting existing infrastructur...
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Mainframe Security: What Financial Services CIOs Need to Know About Intensifying Regulations
This document explores the growing regulatory pressures on financial services organizations, particularly with the introduction of frameworks like DORA, PCI DSS 4.0, and NYDFS 23 NYCRR Part 500. It highlights the unique challenges of securing mainframe environments, which are often overlooked in compliance strategies. The paper provides actionable...
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AI & API Security For Dummies
AI & API Security For Dummies, Salt Security Special Edition, walks you through the evolution of application architecture, why APIs are now essential, and how the rapid rise of AI is transforming both their value and their risk profile. As organizations adopt AI models and agentic workflows, APIs have become the connective tissue powering t...
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The Resilience Risk Briefing: 2026 Future Outlook
A monthly risk-first cyber intelligence series for CISOs Your 2026 budget is approved. But are you defending against last year’s threats? Most security strategies rely on static threat reports and not actual loss data. This briefing delivers intelligence from real-world cyber insurance claims. Hosted by Judson “Jud” Dressler, Director of the...
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The Next Evolution of Application Security: AI-Accelerated DevSecOps
Technology revolutions happen quickly and often before their security implications are fully understood. DevOps transformed software development but required a new security paradigm, DevSecOps, to keep pace with the velocity of code production. Most organizations have now achieved a mature DevSecOps practice, but technology never stands still. The...
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Modernizing Core Infrastructure for AI-Ready SaaS Apps: Security at the Core
The modern SaaS landscape is fraught with challenges: evolving cyber threats, edge vulnerabilities, and the demand for scalable, AI-ready platforms. For SecOps professionals, Security Architects, and CISOs, success lies in making security fundamental—woven into every layer of infrastructure from application delivery to governance. Today’s enterpri...
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Modernizing Core Infrastructure for AI-Ready SaaS Applications: A Security-First Approach
For SecOps professionals, Security Architects, and CISOs, defending modern SaaS platforms requires proactive, security-first strategies. Today’s SaaS environments face constant threats at the edge, growing customer expectations, and the challenges of AI-driven scalability. Security can no longer be an afterthought—it must be fundamental. This O...
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WAAP Buying Guide: Security as a Digital Differentiator
Delivering secure digital experiences to customers while preserving business agility can be a challenge. But businesses that get it right can reduce risk and complexity to gain competitive advantage in the AI era.  F5 Distributed Cloud Web App and API Protection (WAAP) helps you manage threats and simplify operations—without slowing down your b...
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Redefining Resilience: Unified Security Across IT–OT
File-borne threats move from IT into OT via portable media, transient devices, and cross-domain file exchanges. These pathways can evade perimeter and segmentation controls, jeopardizing operational continuity. This session showcases a field-tested, unified defense: validate transient media at ingress, enforce one-way transfer between zones, and g...
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Protecting application user data for better privacy, governance, and compliance
Application user data has become the new trust boundary for modern enterprises. While organizations have invested heavily in network, endpoint, and identity security, sensitive user data now primarily lives and moves inside applications, processed by APIs, microservices, third parties, and increasingly, AI-driven services. As a result, breaches...
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Infographic: Protecting application user data
Application-level data protection is the foundation of digital trust in a world of expanding privacy mandates, cloud adoption, and complex application ecosystems. Sensitive user data is now primarily created, processed, and stored within applications, making applications the most critical control point for privacy, governance, and compliance. T...
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The State of File Security
This independent report by the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by OPSWAT, reveals that organizations face serious gaps in file security, with 61% reporting file-related security incidents over the past two years at an average cost of $2.7 million per organization. Insider threats, lack of visibility into file access, and vulnerability during uploads ...
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The Responsible AI Imperative: Securing the Agentic Shift from Chatbots to Autonomous Systems
Go beyond the era of the chatbot. Discover how to bridge the critical readiness gap as AI transitions into autonomous systems that don’t just answer questions, but execute plans and interact with your digital environment independently.Download the white paper to learn: The impact of the Agentic Shift and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) on you...
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Discover Elastic’s impact on the threat landscape in the 2025 Elastic Global Threat Report
Elastic Security Labs analyzes hundreds of millions of telemetry events, exposing adversary trends and defender insights. With an emphasis on transforming data into action, this report reveals the power of unified and open protections, with deeper dives on: Adversary preferences for open source and off-the-shelf tools Intelligence profiles ...
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See the NDR landscape
Gartner® named Corelight as a Leader among NDR vendors globally in their 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR)—a recognition which we believe demonstrates the differentiated results Corelight delivers for its customers. Read the report to learn: A uniform set of evaluation criteria you can use to easily compare NDR v...
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How to hunt threats like elite defenders with Open NDR + MITRE ATT&CK®
This comprehensive field manual shows you why threat hunting matters and how network data is key to finding dozens of adversary tactics and techniques such as: Spearphishing attacks Automated exfiltration Lateral movement Plus, get more than twenty additional adversary tactics and techniques. Download guide now
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Securing the fastest-growing identity surface: The rise of non-human identities and AI agents
This CISO Stories eBook explores one of the most urgent shifts in modern cybersecurity: the rise of non-human identities and AI agents as the dominant identity population inside today’s enterprises. For years, identity security programs were designed around people — employees, contractors, and partners. That model no longer reflects reality. Se...
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Infographic: The non-human identity challenge
This infographic breaks down one of the fastest-growing — and least understood — sources of cyber risk in modern enterprises: machine identities. As organizations accelerate cloud adoption, automation, DevOps, and AI-driven workflows, non-human identities such as service accounts, APIs, bots, containers, and workloads now outnumber human users ...
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Next-Gen Data Security Posture Management: Built for the AI-Driven Data World
The traditional data perimeter has collapsed and sensitive data now moves across SaaS, cloud, endpoints, and AI systems faster than security teams can track. Our latest whitepaper breaks down why first-gen DSPM falls short and how next-gen DSPM delivers continuous, contextual, real-time protection.
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A Security Leader’s Guide to the Future of Passwords
For today’s security leaders, balancing strong protection with user experience is no longer optional—it’s a strategic imperative. Yet, passwords continue to be a top cause of breaches and friction. This white paper offers a pragmatic, leadership-focused roadmap to reduce credential risk and drive business-aligned transformation toward passwordless...
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Why Workforce Password Management Is Non-Negotiable
Credentials are still the most targeted gateway for attackers—and most employees make it far too easy for them. From password reuse to unmanaged tools, your workforce is leaving cracks in your defenses. With over 2.8 billion credentials stolen in 2024 alone, consumer-grade password managers, browser storage and weak policies simply aren’t cutting ...
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Why Passwordless Adoption Stalls: Strategies to Overcome Roadblocks
Take an in-depth look into the journey toward a passwordless future, examining both its benefits and the challenges organizations face during the transition. We’ll outline the necessary steps and the critical milestones, to ensure progress and results. Through customer stories and practical examples, dive into the most common roadblocks and eff...
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6 MSSP Capabilities That Matter Most for Securing Enterprise AI: A Guide for Security Leaders Aligning MSSP Strategy with AI Risk
As AI adoption accelerates, most security teams are left playing catch-up. Traditional tools, and even trusted MSSPs, often lack the capabilities to secure model endpoints, inference APIs, and AI-driven applications. According to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, 97% of AI-related breaches involved insufficient access controls, and 64% o...
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SAP Case Study
Learn how SAP transformed their approach to Endpoint Management with Tanium. After acquiring three cloud-based software companies, SAP faced a major security challenge: managing thousands of new endpoints across siloed business units. To address its growing security challenges, SAP needed a single, unified platform that could provide real-time vis...
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Ultimate Guide to Endpoint Management
The Ultimate Guide to Endpoint Management is an A-to-Z guide providing a foundational overview for IT and cybersecurity professionals of all skill levels. Explore chapters packed with research and guidance, usable strategies and advice from industry experts. Plus, dive deeper into topics that matter most such as endpoint policies, the key componen...
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ESG The Growing Role of AI
Organizations continue to face increasing complexity in endpoint management and security that is driven by the rapid expansion of remote work, rising device and OS sprawl, vulnerability management and incident response challenges, and continuing threats like ransomware. At the same time, the growing influence of AI and automation is reshaping both...
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The Interconnection between People, Process, and Technology
People, Process and Technology are the cornerstones of all technological advancement within any organization. With the dawn of automation and AI upon us, how are industry leaders navigating the growing complexity, security threats and ‘the need’ for automation? This new research, in partnership with Chief Disruptor, acts as an IT pulse check – pro...
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The Human Cost of Vigilance: Addressing Cybersecurity Burnout in 2025
Addressing Cybersecurity Burnout in 2025 The rise of sophisticated cyber threats like ransomware is intensifying pressure on IT and cybersecurity teams, fueling cybersecurity fatigue and burnout. This report reveals the prevalence, drivers, and consequences of burnout and shows how strategic solutions, including MDR services, can ease the pr...
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11 security controls to reduce cyber risk
Essential cybersecurity controls that help organizations reduce risk, strengthen defenses, and improve operational resilience. The threat landscape continues to evolve — and so should your security controls. From identity to email to network traffic, this resource outlines 11 key areas where you can reduce risk and limit the impact of cyberatta...
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The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2025
332 IT and cybersecurity leaders reveal the ransomware realities facing manufacturing and production organizations today. This year’s report explores how ransomware attacks in the sector have changed—both in their causes and consequences. It also reveals new insights into the organizational weaknesses that left firms vulnerable, and highlights ...
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The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2025
292 IT and cybersecurity leaders reveal the ransomware realities for healthcare providers today. The report examines how the causes and consequences of ransomware attacks on healthcare providers have evolved over time. This year’s edition also sheds light on previously unexplored areas, including the organizational factors that left establis...
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IDC Perspective Confidence Scores: Transparency, Intelligence, and Business Resilience at Scale
In today’s hyper-connected and complex enterprise environments, the role of endpoint management and data-driven decision-making is more critical than ever. IT leaders should: Understand the strategic role of confidence scores in decision-making Learn the key features and functionality when evaluating vendors Discover how confidence sc...
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Ultimate Guide to Autonomous Endpoint Management
This primer on autonomous endpoint management and modern automation explores what AEM entails, how it helps security and IT teams, and how to choose the right automation tool.
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Infographic: Optimizing identity security and zero trust
This infographic examines how identity security and zero trust work together to build a stronger, more resilient identity fabric capable of defending against modern, AI-driven threats. It begins by underscoring that identity has become today’s true security perimeter. Traditional controls often fail against sophisticated, identity-based attacks—ma...
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AI-Driven identity security: Strengthening the fabric of zero trust
As identity threats evolve and AI becomes both a weapon and a defense tool, security leaders are rethinking how Identity security and zero trust intersect. The modern enterprise identity fabric must now account for not only human users but also a growing class of AI agents and non-human identities that act autonomously within business ecosystems. ...
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Maximize your investment: Streamline cloud detection and response with Elastic Security
Cloud adoption is accelerating, and with it comes the increased complexity of securing multi-cloud environments. Security teams face challenges such as tool fragmentation, lack of unified context, and rising cloud-based threats, which hinder their ability to effectively respond to incidents. Join our experts as they explore how Elastic’s cloud ...
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High-volume data sources for AI-driven security analytics
High-volume data sources are critical for providing key context into threats that may otherwise be overlooked — it’s time to recognize the value that data can bring. Thanks to new advancements in security AI tools, security teams can enjoy streamlined data import and alert summarization capabilities, allowing them to analyze and act upon their hig...
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Unifying security operations with Elastic: From data ingestion to threat response
Discover how Elastic Security brings together the full spectrum of security operations — from ingesting large volumes of diverse data to responding to threats in real time — all within a single, scalable platform. This session will showcase Elastic Security’s AI-powered workflows, including automated data ingestion, intelligent alert triaging, and...
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The Future of Cybersecurity is Passwordless and Keyless
Passwords and SSH keys are outdated, expensive, and behind the majority of breaches. This white paper shows how passwordless, keyless access replaces them with secure, temporary credentials that disappear after use—improving user experience, reducing operational strain, and delivering a faster path to Zero Trust. What you’ll learn:• Why permane...
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Identity Governance Made Simple – Webinar
Discover how to simplify identity governance and administration (IGA) with our on-demand webinar, ‘Modern IGA Made Simple.’ Learn how automation, AI, and seamless integration can help you overcome manual processes, reduce risk, and achieve faster time to value. Watch now and take the first step toward smarter identity security. Struggling with ...
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The Essential Guide To User Access Reviews
User Access Reviews (UARs) are critical for maintaining compliance and protecting sensitive data—but they don’t have to be a burden. The Essential Guide to User Access Reviews offers a practical roadmap for executing effective and efficient UARs in modern enterprise environments. Drawing on real-world insights from IT and governance teams, this...
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Why Legacy IGA Fails in the Modern Cloud Era
Traditional Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools were built for an era of on-premises systems, minimal application sprawl, and slower provisioning cycles. But in today’s fast-paced, cloud-first world, these outdated solutions can’t keep up. In this whitepaper, you’ll discover: Why legacy IGA tools fail in modern IT environment...
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The essential SOAR buyer’s guide
Navigate the SOAR landscape and choose the right platform This guide is designed to help security leaders and practitioners navigate the SOAR landscape and choose the right platform, whether adopting SOAR for the first time or upgrading to an enterprise-grade, next-gen solution. Download the essential SOAR buyer’s guide for: Key consider...
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Secure the Future: A Framework for Resilient AI Adoption at Scale
Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly pivoted from a novelty to a strategic imperative in most organizations. The pressure to unlock AI’s potential is second only to the mounting sophistication of security threats that both use and target AI systems. With every opportunity, new risks emerge. How does your organization plan to harness this groun...
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Elastic named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025
Elastic has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025. Elastic Security enables teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at cloud scale, powered by the speed and flexibility of Elasticsearch — and grounded in a commitment to openness, innovation, and customer control. In its evaluation, Forr...
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2025 State of Detection Engineering at Elastic
Open security is the foundation of what we do here at Elastic Security Labs, and there’s no better way to demonstrate that than by sharing information that other companies may consider proprietary information. Detection capabilities make organizations stronger and more robust — and the threat landscape has deemed behavioral threat detections a ...
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Security trends for 2025: Predicting threat evolution and defending by design
Rapidly developing cybersecurity events are driving security operation centers and technology vendors alike to redefine their strategies in order to adapt to the dynamic landscape. These advancements are shaking up security teams’ traditional workflows and establishing an evolved methodology for tackling a new era of advanced threats. Jake King...
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SIEM Buyer’s Guide for the Modern SOC
Security teams need a SIEM that’s ready for the AI era. Our 2025 SIEM buyer’s guide explores the role SIEM plays in today’s modern SOC. The guide highlights key feature differences and flags important questions to ask vendors — helping you arrive at a solution that will empower your security program for years to come. There are several key c...
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Holiday mode on: Building cyber team resilience through the winter
As cybersecurity teams head into the year’s most demanding months, the pressures of reduced staffing, nonstop alerts, and global volatility create a perfect storm of fatigue and risk. Holiday Mode On, a new eBook from CyberRisk Collaborative, SC Media, and CISO Stories, explores how leaders can turn that pressure into a catalyst for resilience. ...
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Infographic: Winter-proofing your cyber team resilience
The holiday season brings a perfect storm for cybersecurity teams — reduced staffing, nonstop alerts, and an “always-on” culture that makes it difficult to rest. According to industry data, 68% of security professionals say they can’t fully disconnect during the holidays, and one in three report performance dips from lack of rest in Q4. The result...
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A CISO’s playbook to communicating cyber risk effectively – templates included
Cybersecurity has become a boardroom issue. Regulators demand accountability, investors expect defensibility, and boards want clear answers on how security ties to business outcomes. The challenge? Many security leaders struggle to translate technical risk into boardroom language. That’s why Pentera created The GOAT Guide: Reporting to the B...
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From Breached to Bound: A CISO’s Guide to Identity Defense in a Credential-Driven Threat World
With over 80% of security incidents tied to identity compromise, CISOs must shift from patching weaknesses to eliminating them. This playbook outlines a defend-by-design strategy that binds credentials to hardware, continuously validates access, and closes off attack vectors such as stolen tokens, MFA fatigue, and session replay. You’ll find actio...
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Eliminating Identity-Based Attacks: A Device-Bound Approach to Making Account Takeovers Impossible
Identity remains the top threat vector. Attackers exploit shared credentials, weak device posture, and conduct session hijacking, phishing, and MFA fatigue to gain unauthorized access. This whitepaper introduces a defense architecture that removes these weak links by design. It explains how public-private key pairs stored on hardware, continuous r...
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Securing Unmanaged Devices: Extending Visibility, Trust, & Control Beyond Corporate Perimeters
Unmanaged devices — including personal phones, contractor laptops, and home computers — are one of today’s most significant blind spots in enterprise security. Conventional tools such as MDM, EDR, and VPNs protect managed assets, but they offer limited visibility and enforcement when it comes to devices outside organizational control. This whitepa...
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8 Security Capabilities Your MFT Must Have
As cyberthreats intensify, compliance demands evolve and data volumes grow, the need for a secure file transfer solution has become more critical than ever.   Traditional file transfer methods often fall short in addressing these modern challenges, leaving sensitive data exposed and operations at risk.Join OPSWAT Experts for an exclusive Webina...
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State of API Security Report
AI adoption has made APIs the new control plane for agents, LLMs, and autonomous systems, yet most organizations still secure them with legacy methods. The result: blind spots, stalled releases, and rising AI-driven risk. The H2 2025 State of API Security Report reveals how API risk is impacting enterprise AI initiatives and what leading organi...
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Cyber threat intelligence unpacked: Turning data into actionable defense
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is no longer just a tool for security analysts — it’s a foundational capability for every organization looking to stay ahead of adversaries. At its core, CTI is about collecting and analyzing data to understand threats and risks, but its real power lies in translating that data into actionable insights. This info...
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How to build a security-aware culture with proactive cyber threat intelligence
Traditional awareness training has long struggled to prepare employees for real-world cyberattacks. While most staff can recite the basics of phishing or password hygiene, that knowledge often fails to translate into decisive action when live threats emerge. This “awareness gap” leaves organizations vulnerable, with attackers exploiting human ...
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How CISOs should approach their identity security programs: a first principles guide
Identity security has become more complex than ever, with every new acronym promising to solve the latest gap — yet most organizations remain burdened with standing access, excessive entitlements and audit findings. This paper shows how CISOs can take a step back and return to first principles. Instead of adding more tools, leaders can rational...
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A CISO’s field guide to unified cloud access
Built by practitioners, this guide helps CISOs and their teams assess where they are on the cloud identity maturity path. No fluff, no pitches—just a clear framework to navigate today’s fragmented production access landscape.
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The path to Least Privilege – a deployment guide
If you’re struggling with the tradeoff between strong security and developer agility, this is a practical guide to implementing Just-in-Time (JIT) access.
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The evolution of Privileged Access Management
This paper traces the journey of Privileged Access Management through three distinct eras—vault-led, bastion-led, and API-led—highlighting why legacy tools are breaking down and what modern environments really demand.
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From alerts to answers: transforming incident response with forensic clarity
The alert flood isn’t slowing down. Detection tools are everywhere, but knowing something happened is only the starting point. The real challenge? Investigating fast, proving impact, and closing cases with confidence. This ebook shows why forensic-level visibility is essential to shift from guesswork to evidence—and why most investigation effor...
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Navigate the Future of API Security | Get the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for API Security & Management
In today’s digital landscape, APIs are the backbone of your business, powering everything from mobile apps to the generative AI services that drive innovation. But this reliance creates a massive and often unprotected attack surface. The 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for API Security and Management is your essential guide to understandi...
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The Global Cyber Skills Benchmark 2025
Where 795+ cyber teams were tested—and what their performance revealed Cybersecurity teams around the world are getting better. But not fast enough—and in some industries, not where it matters most. This year’s Global Cyber Skills Benchmark reveals a growing divide between elite performers and the average team. Foundational domains like Secure ...
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How to build a high-performance cyber workforce
Hundreds of security leaders fight a common, yet brutal, uphill battle: Translating security budgets into a high-performance security function. Despite the increasing investment in technology, we still see a 600% increase in cybercrime year-over- year. Why? Most orgs solve people’s problems (and security performance problems) the wrong way. They f...
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Developing the modern SOC analyst: A report on 360° upskilling
The rampant talent and skills shortage in cybersecurity is arguably most notable in SOC teams. Demand for security analysts alone is expected to be 150% higher than the average growth projected for all occupations, and it’s easy to see why: Migration to cloud technology and adoption of remote work continues to rapidly widen the scope and responsib...
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Third-Party Risk Management: Overcoming Security Program Challenges Guide
Developing the strategies and capabilities to address CVE’s is an important step toward better defending your organization from data breaches. This guide goes through the volume of CVEs, importance of timely response toward remediation, and how to prioritize them by importance.
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Resilient Foundations: Securing America’s Critical Infrastructure in a New Era
America’s power grids, transportation systems, water utilities, and communications networks form the backbone of national security and prosperity. Yet these lifeline systems are facing an unprecedented convergence of threats. Foreign adversaries are actively probing operational technology environments, quantum computing is advancing toward bre...
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A Day in the Life of a Risk Operations Center (ROC) Analyst eBook
BlueVoyant Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) establishes a comprehensive defense for your extended attack surface by leveraging its world-class Risk Operations Center (ROC). The ROC, modeled after traditional security operations centers, quickly responds to and directs remediation across your extended ecosystem, providing expert-driven interactio...
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Securing AI in the Enterprise
A step-by-step guide for IT and security leaders Securing AI in the enterprise is designed to guide readers through key strategies and tactics for the safe and successful adoption of AI within their organizations. Whether you’re facing a lack of AI governance, struggling to define priorities, or navigating a sea of hyperbolic vendor claims, thi...
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Automating GRC: A practical guide for security teams
46% of security leaders say spiraling regulatory complexity keeps them up at night. GRC today is more complex and more critical to get right, yet harder than ever to manage. Regulatory demands continue to rise, and teams continue to be stretched thin. But, when done right, GRC is more than a checkbox – it’s a strategic advantage. What’s i...
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The mobile threat no one’s watching: What your apps are exposing
Think your mobile apps are safe? Think again. From everyday misconfigurations to hidden AI and third-party SDK risk, mobile apps are fast becoming a blind spot in enterprise security. This infographic breaks down real-world breach examples and critical actions every security team must take to regain visibility and control. Whether it’s a cus...
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Your customers are mobile first – is your security?
Mobile applications have become the frontline of modern business—driving customer engagement, employee productivity, and revenue at scale. Yet too many organizations still treat mobile app security as an afterthought. This eBook unpacks the real-world risks posed by mobile misconfigurations, insecure APIs, and hidden third-party code buried dee...
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AI-Powered Security Management for the Hyperconnected World – Protect Complex Environments with Operational Simplicity
As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid environments spanning on-premises, cloud, and endpoint systems, traditional siloed security approaches fail to provide effective protection or operational efficiency. This solutions brief introduces Check Point’s AI-driven security management platform, designed to radically simplify and strengthen cyber d...
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