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Defending the Indefensible: The Power Grid's Security Paradox

Electricity supports nearly every function of modern life: hospitals, water systems, transportation, communications, emergency services, financial systems, manufacturing, national defense, and, most importantly, streaming services. Kidding, but our most critical systems run on electricity, and that makes us vulnerable to attacks.

TITAN AI Demo Series: Get Real-Time Visibility Into Your Vendor Ecosystem with TITAN Watch

Real-time visibility into your vendor ecosystem changes everything about how you manage third-party risk. In this latest edition of SecurityScorecard's Demo Tuesdays, get an introduction to TITAN Watch — and see how security teams are moving from stale, periodic reviews to continuous, always-on intelligence across their entire vendor ecosystem. Watch the demo below.

Top 10 Application Security Risks (2026 Edition)

You already know the threats are getting worse. What’s harder to articulate — especially to leadership — is exactly how they’re getting worse, and what’s slipping through the cracks in your current program. The application security risks your teams face in 2026 are not just more numerous than they were five years ago; they’re structurally different.

Shadow AI Explained: What It Is, Where It Hides, and What It Costs

Shadow AI is the term for AI tools, models, and capabilities that operate within an organization without formal approval, oversight, or governance. It is the enterprise AI equivalent of shadow IT, which is the unauthorized software and cloud services that proliferated as employees found faster ways to get work done than waiting for IT procurement cycles. The difference is that the consequences of unmanaged AI are considerably more significant than those of unmanaged software.

Top 25 Cyberattacks in Sports: Does Defense Win Championships?

First made famous by Bear Bryant in the 1970s, “defense wins championships” has since become a popular sports adage that’s at times overused. But when it comes to the sprawling attack surface of modern athletic events, like the tri-hosted 2026 World Cup or the Super Bowl, that cliché applies just as much to cybersecurity as it does to the playing field. Modern sports franchises are no longer just athletic clubs.

How Top-Earning Construction Firms Improve Risk And Insurance Readiness

Construction projects carry financial exposure that most business owners outside the industry underestimate. A single uninsured incident on a large commercial job site can wipe out months of profit, stall project timelines, and permanently damage relationships with general contractors or project owners. Top-earning construction firms understand this reality and treat risk and insurance readiness as a strategic business function, not an administrative afterthought. The firms pulling in the highest revenues don't just buy more insurance; they build systems that identify, score, and manage exposures before a claim ever materializes.

Persona's Sentinel helps you assess risk at every moment

You've built rigorous identity verification flows. You're running liveness detection, document checks, and behavioral analysis. And when users make it through, you rightfully clear them as trusted. But when users aren’t in a verification flow, you lose insight into the device, network, and behavioral signals that could flag a major risk. Sentinel extends passive signal collection to any moment in the user's life cycle.

AI Risk Management as a Function of AI Governance: A Holistic Approach

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, but it also introduces new risks that organizations must manage. Effective AI risk management is a critical function within AI governance. This article explains how AI risk management fits into the broader governance framework, why it matters, and how organizations can adopt a connected, data-driven approach to reduce AI-related risks continuously.

The CISO's Challenge: Mapping Vulnerabilities to Business Risk

At the executive level, vulnerability management stops being a technical exercise and becomes a question of risk ownership, operational tradeoffs, and organizational accountability. When a vulnerability leads to a breach, it has a personal effect on security leaders along with its broader organizational impact. According to Proofpoint’s Voice of the CISO Report, a majority of CISOs claim they are personally blamed ‘always or often’ when a breach occurs, even when defenses were in place.

Amadey and StealC: Malware-as-a-Service Unavailable

On June 24, 2026, demonstrating the power of public-private collaboration, Europol and the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, alongside our team and other global partners, executed a coordinated disruption as part of Operation Endgame, impacting two of the most prolific commodity malware families on Windows: the Amadey loader/botnet and the StealC information stealer.

What Is Sales Enablement? A Guide for Security and Compliance Teams

Sales enablement is the process of equipping sales teams with the content, tools, training, and information they need to engage buyers effectively and close deals. Most organizations scope it to pitch decks, competitive battlecards, CRM workflows, and onboarding programs — and in doing so, they overlook a component that quietly costs them deals: the security review.

What Is AI Asset Discovery (And Why It Matters for AI Governance)

Enterprise artificial intelligence adoption is scaling at a pace that manual inventory methods simply cannot match. This rapid proliferation has created a severe visibility chasm for security and risk teams: it is fundamentally impossible to govern, secure, or quantify what you do not know exists. ‍ To bridge this gap, organizations are shifting away from point-in-time compliance audits and adopting continuous discovery.

4 risk treatment strategies that separate proactive businesses from reactive ones

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

The Underground Shift: Why Declining Breach Numbers Don't Tell the Whole Story

In Bitsight’s annual State of the Underground report we discuss cyber threat trends, key players, attack vectors, and why it all matters. The key theme from the 2026 State of the Underground is that cyber risk is changing as we know it. We are starting to see threat actors pivot alongside the changing threat landscape. We also explored how the threat landscape is reacting to the ever-growing changes brought on by AI.

Best Vulnerability Management Tools and Software in 2026

Every security team runs vulnerability scans. It’s the follow-up questions that cause headaches: Which of these 12,000 findings matter, who owns the fix, and how do we prove it held? Staring at a massive spreadsheet of identical "Critical" alerts while chasing down overstretched infrastructure teams isn't only tedious, it's a guaranteed path to burnout. That exhausting gap between finding flaws and getting them fixed is exactly where most security programs stall.

Best Data Breach and Data Leak Detection Tools in 2026

In 2023, a single-file-transfer vulnerability enabled attackers to access hundreds of organizations simultaneously. Not only did they steal data, they immediately posted it to dark web extortion sites before most victims even knew they'd been hit. It was the MOVEit Transfer breach, and it exposed a gap that most corporate security stacks still haven't closed: the difference between stopping an attacker inside your network and finding your data after it's already left your network.

TITAN AI Demo Series: How AI Agents Automate KEV Remediation

Most security teams find out about a critical vulnerability after it's been added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. By then, the clock is already running. In Episode 3 of SecurityScorecard's Demo Tuesday series, see how TITAN AI Agents automate KEV remediation workflows — so your team spends less time triaging and more time closing exposures. Watch to learn how to: Instantly identify which vendors in your ecosystem are exposed to KEV-listed vulnerabilities.

Threat Intelligence for prioritization

More data does not always mean better decisions. For TPRM teams, the value comes from actionable, correlated intelligence that helps identify which risks need attention first. In this clip from Three Hard Truths About TPRM, Julie Gaiaschi of TPRA and Vanessa Jankowski of Bitsight discuss how threat context can help organizations prioritize third-party risk, strengthen supply chain resilience, and support business continuity under pressure.

Real Time Risk Needs Real Time Visibility

Third-party risk doesn’t wait for annual reviews. Vendor ecosystems change constantly, and risk teams need visibility that keeps pace. In this clip from Three Hard Truths About TPRM, Julie Gaiaschi, CEO and Co-Founder of TPRA, and Vanessa Jankowski, SVP and GM of Bitsight’s TPRM solution, explore why continuous monitoring and real-time visibility are critical for stronger accountability, faster response, and better resilience across the vendor ecosystem.

Business Context Is the New Risk Filter

Not every vendor risk deserves the same level of attention. The real challenge is knowing which risks matter most to the business. In this clip from Three Hard Truths About TPRM, Julie Gaiaschi of TPRA and Vanessa Jankowski of Bitsight discuss why business context is becoming the new filter for prioritizing third-party risk — helping teams focus on continuity, revenue protection, and the vendors that truly impact operations.

Stop managing vendor lists Start mapping dependencies. #cybersecurity #mythos

Third-party risk management can’t stop at static vendor lists. In today’s interconnected business environment, organizations need to understand the dependencies behind their vendors — including subcontractors, fourth parties, and concentration risks that can affect operational resilience. In this clip from Three Hard Truths About TPRM, Julie Gaiaschi, CEO and Co-Founder of TPRA, and Vanessa Jankowski, SVP and GM of Bitsight’s TPRM solution, discuss why stronger Nth-party visibility is essential for modern third-party risk programs.

How Modern POS Platforms Help Retailers Reduce Operational Risk

Ask a store owner to name their biggest operational risk, and you'll usually hear about the dramatic stuff. A break-in. A card-skimming scam. The walk-in cooler that quits at 2 a.m. on a holiday weekend. Those things happen, and they hurt. But they're rarely what bleeds a retail business dry.

Decoding the Copilot Ecosystem

Microsoft’s approach of generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally redefined corporate productivity. The "Copilot" brand has become synonymous with workplace efficiency, promising to accelerate everything from writing software to summarizing executive board meetings. For a security analyst, however, this widespread integration introduces significant challenges to the attack surface they manage.

Governing Excessive Agency in the Anthropic Ecosystem

As a security analyst, your intake queue has likely been overtaken by requests to approve Claude. While that used to be a straightforward decision, Anthropic’s rapid deployment of agentic utilities, such as Claude Co-Work and Claude Code, has created a dangerous blind spot for SecOps, as these tools expand far beyond engineering. The core crisis lies with non-developers.

The 2026 Enterprise AI Security Index

The writing is on the wall: artificial intelligence has moved past the experimental phase and has cemented its place as a core component of the modern enterprise stack. For CISOs, the playbook of flat firewall blocking is ineffective—bans don’t halt adoption, they simply drive usage underground into unmanaged shadow streams. To protect corporate assets without stalling business velocity, security leaders are seeing the need to shift from blind obstruction to active, structured guidance.

The Architecture of an AI-Powered Breach: The Shadow Supply Chain

CISOs and security analysts understand that the narrative surrounding artificial intelligence risk has changed. The old assumption that AI risk begins and ends with an employee copying and pasting a sensitive paragraph into a public ChatGPT prompt has dissipated, and we now see that AI has rapidly transitioned from an occasional consumer novelty into a deeply embedded, departmental infrastructure.

Implementing AI Governance to Identify and Mitigate Critical AI Risks

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming businesses worldwide, offering powerful tools to automate, analyze, and innovate. Yet, with this power comes significant risk. Organizations must implement AI governance frameworks that map, measure, and manage AI risks continuously. ‍ This article explains how effective AI governance helps prioritize risks aligned with business goals, enabling companies to mitigate threats before they escalate.

What Is an RFP Response? A Guide for Security and GRC Teams

A request for proposal (RFP) response is a vendor's formal reply to a procurement document where a prospective buyer outlines all the information they need to make a final purchasing decision. It acts as a detailed pitch, typically covering pricing, solution architecture, references, and implementation timelines. For security and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams, the section that consistently creates the most friction is the security and compliance questionnaire embedded inside an RFP.

Understanding and Navigating the Requirements of CISA BOD 26-04

CISA Binding Operational Directive 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to prioritize security updates based on operational risk, not just severity. It builds on earlier Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) directives by combining exposure, exploitation, impact, and prioritization logic into a more actionable remediation model.

Weekly Brief: Driftnet Edition | Why SOC and TPRM Teams Need the Same Intelligence

In this week's Weekly Brief: The Driftnet Edition, Brandon Torio explores why the most mature security organizations are breaking down the walls between Security Operations Center (SOC) and Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) teams. Historically, these teams have approached risk from different angles. TPRM teams focus on vendor oversight, compliance, and risk workflows. SOC teams focus on attack surfaces, vulnerabilities, threat activity, and internet-facing exposures.

Major Security Event: Fortinet VPN Credentials and Configuration Data Exposed for 73,000 Devices

A large-scale credential compromise campaign known as FortiBleed has exposed verified administrator credentials for more than 73,000 internet-facing Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. As of mid-June 2026, the dataset is reportedly circulating within criminal underground communities. Researchers estimate that approximately 50% of all internet-reachable FortiGate devices may be affected across 194 countries, making this one of the most significant Fortinet security incidents to date.

Global Third-Party Cyber Risk Regulatory Trends to Know: US and Europe

The landscape of third-party cyber risk is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by an escalating threat environment, an expanding attack surface, AI, and a tidal wave of new global regulations. As organizations grapple with complex digital supply chains, regulators across the US and EMEA are stepping up oversight, making 2026 a pivotal year for compliance and risk management. This analysis explores the essential threat intelligence and regulatory shifts that demand immediate attention.

Building a risk taxonomy: A guide to classifying risks

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

Turning Asset Visibility Into Risk Reduction

Most vulnerability programs rely on scanning known assets and ranking findings based on static severity scores. That model breaks down quickly in modern environments. Asset lists are constantly changing, devices move between networks, workloads shift into cloud platforms, and unmanaged systems appear outside traditional inventory controls. When asset visibility is incomplete, vulnerability data is incomplete as well. The result is predictable. Prioritization becomes inconsistent.

Best GRC Healthcare Compliance Software for Hospitals and Clinics

Most healthcare compliance teams aren't failing because they lack effort. They're failing because they're managing HIPAA, HITECH, and CMS obligations across spreadsheets, shared drives, and siloed departments that don't communicate. The best GRC healthcare compliance software solves that problem entirely. After reviewing platforms for feature depth, audit-readiness support, vendor risk tracking, and real-world reviews, the options in this guide represent what actually holds up under the pressure of a real compliance program. Here's what to expect.

The Importance of Structured Client Planning for Long-Term Business Growth

Every successful business understands that growth is not simply about attracting new customers. While customer acquisition often receives significant attention, long-term success is frequently determined by how effectively organizations manage and develop relationships with existing clients. Businesses that consistently grow year after year rarely rely on luck. Instead, they invest time in understanding customer needs, aligning objectives, identifying opportunities, and building strong partnerships that create lasting value.

Understanding inherent risk vs residual risk-and why the gap matters

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

SecurityScorecard Weekly Brief: The Driftnet Edition on the Health of the Internet - Brandon Torio

In this week's Weekly Brief: The Driftnet Edition, Brandon Torio explains why internet scanning is a lot like modern healthcare. Just as blood tests help doctors identify hidden health risks before they become serious problems, internet scanning helps organizations uncover unseen cyber risks across their attack surface and third-party ecosystem. "The internet has evolved past any one person's understanding.".

How Bitsight Supports Hong Kong's Critical Infrastructure Ordinance Cap. 653 in the Post-Mythos Era

Hong Kong’s Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Ordinance (Cap. 653) represents a major shift in cybersecurity regulation. The law moves beyond traditional compliance exercises and places a much stronger emphasis on continuous operational resilience. For designated Critical Infrastructure (CI) operators, the challenge is no longer simply deploying security controls.

The New Reality of Managing Risk in a Digital World

The digital world has transformed how people communicate, work, shop, and manage information. Businesses of every size now rely on digital platforms to serve customers, store data, and operate efficiently. While these advancements bring many benefits, they also introduce new forms of risk. Cybercriminals, data breaches, online fraud, identity theft, and reputation attacks have become common challenges in today's connected environment.

Why Visual Branding Combats Brand Impersonation Risks

Corporate identity theft happens fast online. A random criminal can copy a logo, launch a fake website, and trick regular customers within minutes. Many business owners forget that public visual design provides the first line of defense against online fraudsters. Brand protection blends security awareness with strict visual consistency.

How the Wrong Framing Creates New Risk

The other day, someone said, “AI security is fundamentally data security”. And this got me thinking. Is it? Can AI security simply be solved with a typical data security strategy? It’s one of those statements that sounds correct when you first hear it, and it gets a few nods in the room, but then it quietly does a lot of damage to how people think about the problem. So, let’s dive into it, because the statement is really quite misleading.

Defining a risk management policy: A beginner's guide

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

Claude Fable 5 and the New Reality of AI-Enabled Third-Party Risk

Anthropic recently announced the release of Claude Fable 5, a public version of its more powerful Mythos AI model. Technology that was previously only accessible to a select few organizations is now available to businesses at an enterprise level. AI vendors are building the guardrails while threat actors are studying their attack vectors. Essentially, we are giving the keys to the AI world to businesses and hoping the guardrails hold steady. Security teams need to prepare even faster now.

Beyond Prevention: Frontier AI and the Shift to Cyber Resilience

Frontier AI is compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, making reactive security strategies harder to sustain. In this webinar, Roland Cloutier (Former CISO of of ByteDance & TikTok, ADP, and EMC) and Gabi Reish discuss how security leaders can move beyond patching everything to prioritize real risk, measure cyber readiness, and communicate security posture to the board.

What Integrated Lab Management Teaches Us About Systematic Risk Reduction

Risk in laboratory environments doesn't usually announce itself. It accumulates in the gaps - between process steps, between systems that don't communicate, between the way a procedure is documented and the way it's actually being performed on a busy Tuesday afternoon. Individual failures are often small enough to be invisible until they combine with other small failures to produce an outcome that prompts a formal investigation.

Before You Rethink Everything for Frontier AI, Measure What's Already Working

The recent wave of announcements surrounding Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing has certainly filled our feeds. While these developments are technically interesting, the real story for me lately has been what they reveal about where the cybersecurity market is heading and how quickly that evolution is reshaping the risk conversation.

Automating Vulnerability Triage to Overcome the Human Decision Capacity Limit

Most vulnerability management programs don’t struggle because they lack visibility. They struggle because they generate more security decisions than humans can realistically process at scale. Modern security teams already have most of the tools they need to find and assess vulnerabilities. Their real operational challenge is determining which vulnerabilities matter, which teams own them, which findings deserve escalation, and which can safely wait.

How to write a risk appetite statement in 5 steps

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

What Is 'Business Identity Theft'? Corporate Security and Vendor Risk Management

Business identity theft occurs when criminals hijack a company's commercial credentials-such as its tax ID or registration details-to open fraudulent lines of credit, intercept vendor payments, or execute supply chain attacks. You do not just lose money. You lose your operational integrity.

Risk appetite and risk tolerance: What's the difference?

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

Engineering a Gold-Standard Cyber Risk Blueprint

The Onboarding Blueprint: Engineering a Gold-Standard Process Learn how to leverage the Vendor Onboarding Portal to stop chasing shadow IT and mitigate risk before exposure. Our Customer Education team will provide a tactical framework to automate vendor tiering and transform manual bottlenecks into a self-executing intake engine. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?

Fireside with George Wiemer: Driving Ecosystem Maturity

The Supply Chain Uplift: Driving Ecosystem Maturity Stop acting as an auditor and start acting as a partner. Learn how Combe Inc. uses real-time telemetry to identify vendor risks before they are reported, creating a positive feedback loop that hardens the entire supply chain. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?

Why Your Security Investment Isn't Reducing Risk (+What Actually Does)

Security budgets have never been higher. The average enterprise now runs 50 security tools, and most teams added more last year than the year before. And yet, alert fatigue is at the breaking point. Coverage gaps in mobile and API environments continue to widen. The exploitability problem at the center of most AppSec programs remains unsolved. Breaches keep happening. Risk scores don't move.

Crowdsourced Chaos: The Evolution of NoName057(16) and Why DDoS Resilience Matters

According to Bitsight Threat Intelligence, NoName057(16) remains one of the most visible pro-Russian hacktivist groups conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against countries and organizations perceived as supporting Ukraine. This matters because the risk can extend beyond direct business ties to Ukraine, and the group may also target organizations that do business with vendors, suppliers, partners, or service providers perceived as supporting Ukraine.
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AI in the UK: Driving Innovation Without Expanding Cyber Risk

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future ambition for UK organisations. It is already shaping how decisions are made, how services are delivered, and how quickly businesses can respond to change. From automation and analytics to customer engagement and operational optimisation, AI is becoming an integral part of the modern enterprise.

The Verizon 2026 DBIR Confirms the Shift from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management

Every year, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) gives the security industry a chance to step back from the noise and look at what happened. Not what vendors predicted. Not what attackers threatened. Not what defenders feared. What happened. This year’s report makes one point hard to ignore: vulnerability exploitation became attackers’ initial leading access vector.

How Weak AI Governance Increases Organizational Exposure to Risks

‍ Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming businesses rapidly, but weak AI governance creates significant risks. Without proper oversight, organizations face costly data breaches, operational failures, and damage to their reputation. This article explains why strong AI governance is essential to managing these risks.