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Beyond Security: How Complexity is Pushing Companies to the Brink

The cybersecurity conversation usually revolves around attacks. We talk about ransomware, phishing, and critical vulnerabilities—but there is a much less visible problem that is limiting many organizations' ability to respond: operational complexity. Today, a single company might rely on dozens of security tools, manage workloads spread across multiple cloud providers, handle hundreds or thousands of digital identities, and support employees connecting from absolutely anywhere.

The 30-Minute Cloud Risk Assessment Every MSP Should Be Offering

Every time a client gets breached through a cloud app, it's the MSP who gets the call. Compromised Microsoft 365 accounts, unauthorized AI tools, and misconfigured sharing settings. Attackers aren't breaking in anymore. They're logging in through gaps that your endpoint, firewall, and MDR tools were never designed to see.

Why Now Is the Time to Replace Your VPN

For years, the VPN has been the default answer to remote access. It solved a problem organizations faced when employees primarily worked from offices and only occasionally connected from home. That world no longer exists. Today, employees work from everywhere. Applications run across SaaS platforms, public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments. Security teams are expected to provide seamless access while protecting against increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Could your own AI agents run a ransomware attack?

Ransomware is evolving well beyond locking systems, and agentic AI is introducing a category of security risk most organizations are not yet equipped to handle. On The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, Behnaz Karimi, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at Accenture and independent ransomware researcher, walks through what that shift actually looks like. The full conversation includes.

AI Chat: Grok CLI data exfiltration, AI vs. patching, distillation wars & shadow AI [339]

AI Chat with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard and Chris Luft. A new segment on the podcast: AI news in cybersecurity that is less than 24 hours old, discussed while it is still hot. Joining Chris for these conversations is LimaCharlie founder and CEO Maxime Lamothe-Brassard. In this episode: Stories covered: Chapters: The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast — a podcast about cybersecurity and the people that keep the internet safe. New episodes drop weekly.

Cut Through the Noise: Learn How to Spot the Threats That Matter

Security teams today face an overwhelming volume of alerts, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish genuine threats from everyday noise. As attackers become more adept at blending into legitimate activity, organizations need smarter ways to prioritize, investigate, and respond.

Lessons from a CISA Security Incident - The 443 Podcast - Episode 378

This week on the podcast, we review an after action report from CISA on a security incident they responded to back in May. After that, we cover a vulnerability in Amazon's Q Extension for VSCode before covering a research post from Microsoft on Giga Wiper.

Why Human Behavior Has Become Cybersecurity's Fastest-Changing Attack Surface

For years, cybersecurity has largely focused on strengthening technology. Organizations invested in better endpoint protection, stronger identity controls, advanced threat detection, and AI-powered security operations. Those investments remain essential, but they're no longer enough. The next major cybersecurity challenge isn't simply keeping pace with attackers. It's keeping pace with how people work.

Intel Chat: Dialogflow Rogue Agent, ghost phishing, CISA KEV deadline & HalluSquatting [338]

Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. Matt and Chris break down four stories from the week in threat intel: Stories covered: Chapters: The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast — a podcast about cybersecurity and the people that keep the internet safe. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen.