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Hack to School: Top 10 Cyber Threats Facing the Education Sector in 2025

Sep 11, 2025 By Emma Stevens In BitSight
As students return to classrooms, a different kind of "back-to-school" activity is ramping up: Hack-to-School. Cybercriminals and nation-state actors are intensifying their focus on educational institutions. According to Bitsight Threat Intelligence, the education sector is now the third-most targeted industry by cyber threat actors, facing a wide range of persistent and emerging risks.
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Report: Shadow AI Poses an Increasing Risk to Organizations

Sep 10, 2025 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
The use of “shadow AI” is an increasing security risk within organizations, according to a new report from Netskope. Shadow AI is a newer variant of shadow IT, in which employees use unauthorized technology without the knowledge of the IT department. This is generally driven by a desire for increased productivity rather than malicious motives, but employees are often unaware of the risks introduced by unauthorized tools.
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Introducing proactive, AI-powered risk management that breaks the cycle of reactive risk

Sep 10, 2025 By Vanta In Vanta
Risk doesn’t live in just one place—it comes from vendors, suppliers, partners, and from inside your business through processes, people, and systems. ‍ Managing that risk is often fragmented, too. Vendor reviews live in one system, internal issues in another, and leadership reports take hours to compile. And every new vendor, tool, or requirement contributes to another layer of risk.
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Bitsight GIA Update: How Gen-AI and LLMs Get You Faster (and Better) Entity Mapping

Sep 10, 2025 By Francisco Ferreira In BitSight
Bitsight’s mission to keep evolving the capability of our data engine through AI enhancements hit a new milestone today. The latest addition is a new entity mapping capability added to Bitsight AI and the data engine, which uses GenAI agents to create more complete and consistent sets of identifiers for organizations scanned and added to Bitsight’s entity inventory.
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What is an Enterprise Risk Retainer?

Sep 10, 2025 By Kroll In Kroll
Organizations today are under pressure to effectively respond to acute risk events that can threaten financial stability, regulatory compliance, executive safety and stakeholder trust. Hear from Managing Director Nickolas Savage on the importance of getting the right support quickly, while maintaining cost efficiency and operational resilience.
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Why Growing Tech Startups Keep Running Into Unexpected Expenses

Why Growing Tech Startups Keep Running Into Unexpected Expenses

Sep 10, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
You're probably across your burn rate, runway, and core operational costs. You've got projections, maybe even a part-time CFO. But if you're in the middle of growing a tech startup, there's a good chance you'll still run into expenses that weren't on your radar. It's not that you missed something obvious. It's just that building and scaling a tech business creates financial friction in places you don't expect until you're right in the middle of it.
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Vanta Delivers: New AI-powered Capabilities to Help Security Teams Move Beyond Reactive Risk

Vanta Delivers: New AI-powered Capabilities to Help Security Teams Move Beyond Reactive Risk

Sep 9, 2025 By Vanta In Vanta
AI-powered workflows and Vanta AI Agent extend to policy management, enterprise risk oversight, vendor monitoring, and Slack collaboration. Product announcements and demos debut at Vanta Delivers: AI-Powered Risk Management virtual event September 10.
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Machines, the Silent Threat Lurking Inside the Enterprise

Machines, the Silent Threat Lurking Inside the Enterprise

Sep 9, 2025 By Brian Ramsey, VP Americas - Sales In Xalient
The digital enterprise is no longer primarily made up of individuals' identities. According to Gartner, over 60% of all identities in a typical organization are non-human. These Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are digital identities assigned to software, services, applications, containers, or devices that require access to systems and data. Unlike human identities, NHIs operate autonomously, at scale, and often with high privilege. This makes them essential for modern automation and uniquely vulnerable to misuse.
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Patch vs. Workaround: How CVEs Actually Get Fixed

Sep 9, 2025 By Diogo Ferreira In BitSight
In order to collect various security-related metrics, Bitsight scans the entire internet, collecting a unique set of data that enables us to carry out a variety of studies that would be extremely difficult for any other company to conduct. One of the metrics that we collect is related to the presence of certain vulnerabilities. For this, we need to take into consideration all possible mitigation strategies that are available and that allow us to reduce the risk.
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upguard

Introducing UpGuard's Unified CRPM Platform

Sep 9, 2025 By Revashni Moodley In UpGuard
Cybersecurity isn’t a one-off battle. It’s a daily war fought on multiple fronts. Despite this, many security teams have been defending their organizations without cohesive visibility. Isolated security tools present a disjointed defense, one that is still fighting yesterday’s battles, but not today’s cyber threats.
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