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John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations. Prior to Virgin Atlantic, he built and transformed security functions for global organizations, including ASOS, Liberty Global, AEG Europe, and KPMG.

Active Directory defenses must combine identity fundamentals, telemetry, and rapid response as attackers reach the environment’s first breach attempt within a median of 11 hours.

Attackers don't read your repository; they hit your URL, and chain together whatever they find. In an era where offensive AI runs against live applications at machine speed, your security tooling needs to go beyond finding vulnerabilities to prove exploitability, including whether they can be combined into a breach.

Last week, Snyk CTO Manoj Nair sat down with Alon Krifcher, Head of Applied AI from Anthropic, for a live discussion on the coming wave of autonomous attacks. Manoj kept landing on one thing: the AI Hurricane has already arrived, and what's left is deciding whether your defense runs at the same speed as the threat.

Most security teams aren't short of data. The harder problem is turning that data into intelligence they can act on. This guide sets out the seven criteria that separate an effective threat intelligence tool from another unused dashboard: dark web coverage, relevance, human analysis, speed, multi-audience outputs, integration and provider trust. It also covers the red flags to watch for during procurement and gives ten questions to ask every vendor.

Cybersecurity programs have become increasingly specialized and become a rather expansive enterprise responsibility. Protecting a modern organization can involve identity, endpoints, networks, applications and APIs, cloud infrastructure, data, threat intelligence, detection and response, governance, risk and compliance (GRC), incident response, and cyber resilience. Each discipline brings specialized technologies, processes, and expertise to the security program.

The ASOS cyber attack reported on 6 October 2026, has raised fresh questions about third-party access, SaaS security and how modern organisations manage an increasingly connected attack surface. The incident became public in an unusual way: customers received an unauthorised mobile push notification through the ASOS app claiming the retailer had been compromised. ASOS later confirmed that basic personal information, including names and contact details, may have been accessed.

Data replication is primarily used when service and data availability requirements are high. There are two types of replication – real-time replication or continuous replication and traditional replication, also called periodical or snapshot replication. Real-time replication has more advantages than traditional replication but consumes more resources. For this reason, it is better to follow data replication best practices to implement real-time VM replication for disaster recovery.

Microsoft Active Directory is widely used for authentication, and many software solutions can integrate with it to rely on a single authentication system. VMware vSphere components, including vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, also support Active Directory integration, which simplifies account and access management. However, this convenience introduces specific security risks that administrators need to understand and mitigate.

Your last firewall audit came back clean. Every rule documented, every exception justified, every box checked, exactly what PCI DSS and your other compliance frameworks and attestations require. None of that tells you whether a compromised laptop in marketing can actually reach your payment systems right now. The audit verifies your firewall policy. It was never built to verify your network.