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Why Performance-Based Questions Are the Real Security+ Challenge (and How to Beat Them)

If you've passed a multiple-choice certification exam before, you might assume the CompTIA Security+ will be more of the same. You read the question, eliminate two obviously wrong answers, pick the best remaining option, and move on. Then you hit your first performance-based question. Suddenly you're staring at a simulated firewall interface, asked to configure ACL rules for a production web server. There's no A, B, C, or D. Just a blinking cursor and a timer counting down. This is where most Security+ candidates panic, and it's exactly why PBQs exist.
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AI for Security Infrastructure: Rebalancing Cybersecurity for the Decade Ahead

For more than a decade, cybersecurity has been shaped by a single doctrine: assume breach. Facing high-volume, relentless, and diverse attacks, the security industry has been forced into a reactive stance, playing a constant game of whack-a-mole in a nonstop damage-limitation exercise. This has driven major investment in detection, response, and recovery, and created a world in which organizations are better at reacting to incidents than at preventing them in the first place.

How to Secure Sensitive Data in Jira & Confluence with DLP (Data loss prevention)

In almost every major enterprise, Jira and Confluence are the default operating systems for innovation. They hold your organization's most vital intelligence, from product roadmaps to financial planning. Yet, while companies invest billions in fortress-like perimeter security, firewalls and VPNs, to keep external attackers out, they often ignore the fragility of their internal collaboration environments.

Talos intent-based detection: Stopping the scrapers that legacy tools can't see

Cybersecurity tools and procedures were designed to provide full defence against predictable threats that followed patterns that would raise alarms. Familiar CAPTCHAs, IP blocks, browser checks, browser fingerprinting, and login restrictions would provide a protective layer for businesses to ensure only genuine users were using their website, or app, or API responsibly. This layer of cybersecurity used to distinguish human from bot.

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery: What You Need to Know

Today’s IT leaders face a non-stop escalation of stealthy cyberattacks designed to hold organizations hostage. The dialogue has shifted from if you will be compromised to when. The financial stakes are incredibly high. According to a 2024 study by Splunk and Oxford Economics, “outages cost businesses over $400 billion in revenue each year.” For many Technology decision-makers, the instinct is to rely on traditional disaster recovery plans.

Why API Security Is No Longer an AppSec Problem - And What Security Leaders Must Do Instead

APIs are one of the most important technologies in digital business ecosystems. And yet, the responsibility for their security often falls to AppSec teams – and that’s a problem. This organizational mismatch creates systemic risk: business teams assume APIs are “secured,” while attackers exploit logic flaws, authorization gaps, and automated attacks in production. As Tim Erlin noted recently, “These are not exploits of a specific vulnerability, but abuse of an API.”

Future of MFA: Trends That Will Win in 2026

2026 is here, and cybersecurity is defined by a critical paradox: despite widespread MFA adoption, credential-based breaches continue to surge. Traditional multi-factor authentication, static, friction-heavy, and often disconnected, no longer stands up to sophisticated threats, such as AI-powered phishing, MFA fatigue attacks, and prompt bombing campaigns, which exploit user behavior rather than technical vulnerabilities.

INETCO team shares fraud predictions for 2026

From real-time payment (RTP) scams to account takeovers to card testing, Visa reports that 98% of merchants experienced one or more types of fraud in 2025. No wonder it has gone down in history as the year these crimes exploded in scope. So what does 2026 have in store? According to the INETCO Team, the coming months will see payment fraud evolve like never before — into something more autonomous and far harder for banks and payment processors to detect using traditional approaches.

Compliance Readiness with Audit Logging

Whether pulling items together for a holiday dinner or prepping weekly meals, you need to have all the ingredients necessary to cook the meals you want to eat. Often, this means making a grocery list, checking off items as you take them from the shelves, and, possibly, grumbling when one of the items isn’t available. In the IT and business worlds, audit logging is the shopping list that helps organizations with compliance readiness.