Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Cisco devices don’t warn you before rebooting with unsaved changes. A missed write memory means the running config is lost—and the device reloads with an outdated startup config. That’s how critical updates disappear, outages happen, and incidents get escalated. Manually checking for this drift across hundreds or thousands of devices is tedious and error-prone.

You face more signals than your SOC can triage and more lateral movement than your legacy rules can see. Signature-only controls miss new techniques, while manual triage slows response. The gap between “alert created” and “incident contained” widens when you can’t separate real risk from noise. Adversaries exploit encrypted channels, low-and-slow exfiltration, and living-off-the-land tools that look like normal activity. Missed weak signals become major incidents.

The APT group known as Librarian Ghouls has managed to infiltrate the networks of technical universities and industrial companies in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan without arousing suspicion. How did the gang get inside? By using legitimate logins and moving laterally through internal networks, relying on legitimate access credentials without generating alerts.

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and Web Application & API Protection (WAAP) platforms are designed to stop attacks before they reach your applications. Yet many organizations fall into a dangerous comfort zone. They deploy a WAF, leave it in monitor mode for months, or configure environments in ways that allow attackers to bypass the WAF entirely and reach origin servers directly.

The cybersecurity perimeter is gone. In its place, a far more resilient framework has emerged: Zero Trust Networking (ZTN). This security model assumes no transaction is automatically permitted. Every connection, request, and data flow must be verified continuously. Learn how Elastic and Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) enable a security posture built on constant verification, rapid response, and adaptive trust.

On September 17, 2025, WatchGuard released fixes for a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CVE-2025-9242) in the iked process of WatchGuard Fireware OS, which powers their Firebox firewall appliances. This flaw allows a remote unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary code and affects both the mobile user VPN with IKEv2 and the branch office VPN with IKEv2 when configured with a dynamic gateway peer.