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The latest MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations are out, featuring scenarios that emulate sophisticated actors like Scattered Spider and Mustang Panda. While every release of the findings is a significant event for the security community, this year’s evaluation highlights both new and recurring concerns for security professionals.

Jesse Emerson, Chief Product Officer at LevelBlue, the world’s largest pure-play Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), recently sat down to answer a few questions about what makes an MSSP a valuable client resource and how he sees the MSSP’s role changing in the coming year.

If you operate pharmaceutical websites, portals, adherence tools, or patient support platforms, client-side execution is part of your compliance surface. Analytics, pixels, chat interfaces, and third-party libraries stop being neutral once they run alongside condition-specific content, authenticated access, or patient-initiated actions. At that point, they participate in disclosure. OCR’s clarification on tracking technologies did not create new obligations.

Content Security Policy looks like it was designed for PCI Requirement 6.4.3. You define which domains can load scripts on your payment page, the browser enforces it, and unauthorized code gets blocked. For teams drowning in third-party JavaScript, CSP feels like the obvious answer. Then you get to your audit, and the QSA starts asking questions CSP can’t answer.

WIRED reports that deepfake attacks are impersonating pastors and other religious figures in order to scam congregations. Father Mike Schmitz, a priest who hosts a podcast with over a million followers, warned his listeners in November that AI-generated deepfakes were using his likeness to fraudulently solicit donations. WIRED found that several of these fake accounts are still active on TikTok, and they appear when a TikTok user searches for Father Schmitz.

A Hardware Security Module (HSM) is a tamper-proof device that has been built to generate, hold, and securely use cryptographic keys. With regard to Code Signing, an HSM guarantees that your private key (s) will remain inside a secure environment, without the ability for anyone else to take or abuse them in any manner. By doing this, the likelihood of your key being stolen, duplicated, or otherwise compromised is significantly reduced.

Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for enterprise IT leaders to find themselves in a situation that seems like a catch-22. On one hand, they’re expected to make data-driven decisions that improve productivity and profitability in a business. On the other, they’re preoccupied with their core responsibilities such as protecting critical systems, maintaining network security, and accelerating investigations when a security event occurs. Traditional tooling won’t keep up with modern systems.