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AI Is Changing Cyberattacks on Hotels: Here's How to Stay Protected

Peak season brings challenges to the hospitality industry every year. Thousands of guests, temporary staff, vendors, and business partners interact daily with reservation systems, management platforms, mobile apps, and loyalty programs. That operational complexity makes hotels a particularly attractive target for cybercriminals. Artificial intelligence hasn't created a new problem for hotels, it is simply accelerating an existing one: identity-based attacks.

Cyber Threat Intelligence for the Insurance Sector: A Sector Under Two Kinds of Pressure

The insurance sector faces mounting pressure from both commercial growth and a persistent, evolving cyber threat landscape. This blog examines why insurers remain key targets, where their security gaps lie, and how cyber threat intelligence helps close the gap between ambition and resilience.

CrowdStrike Threat Hunts for Shell Command Obfuscation on VMware ESX

VMware ESX systems are a recurring target in ransomware campaigns. Threat groups including SCATTERED SPIDER, BlackBasta, Royal (aka BlackSuit), Akira, and the ESX-focused ransomware as a service (RaaS) platform shinysp1d3r have demonstrated that once an adversary reaches the hypervisor layer, they can rapidly encrypt virtual machines, disable logging, and cripple an entire data center.

What Is CAC Authentication? A Complete Guide to Common Access Card Authentication

CISA calls phishing-resistant MFA the standard every organization should be working toward. For DoD components, federal agencies, defense contractors, and other organizations operating at NIST's highest authenticator assurance level (AAL3), that guidance narrows to two paths: FIDO2/WebAuthn, or PKI-based smart cards like CAC and PIV.

Your AI deployment might be out of policy

Most AI deployment policies stop at approved chat interfaces. Meanwhile, employees install browser copilots, AI extensions, and third-party plugins that never touch Microsoft's management stack. IT can't configure what it can't see, and Group Policy and Intune only govern Microsoft's world. This post covers what actually happens once AI tools show up outside policy, five things most teams miss, and how PolicyPak enforces controls directly on the apps and browser extensions themselves.

That's a wrap: Mend.io at Black Hat USA 2026

Another Black Hat USA is in the books, and what a week it was. From a main stage keynote at the AI Summit to candid podcast conversations, a video interview with Cyber Defense Magazine, and a booth game that just wouldn’t quit, Mend.io showed up in Las Vegas ready to talk about the question every security leader is wrestling with right now: as AI reshapes both the software we ship and the systems we have to defend, who do we trust to verify that it’s safe?

SOC 2 Type 2 Audit Requirements for Fintech Companies: The Complete Checklist

For fintech companies that move money, store account data, or connect to banking rails, trust must be documented. It cannot just be promised. A SOC 2 Type 2 report is the primary way financial platforms prove their security controls actually work. Demonstrating real fintech security and compliance unlocks enterprise partnerships, closes larger deals, and satisfies vendor security reviews. Banks and payment networks require these reviews before they integrate with you. Free Consultation.