Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Blame for all flaws belongs to the flawed human author. Historically, the bottleneck for finding security bugs in software was human bandwidth. As pointed out in this great post by Tom Ptacek, it appears that large language models are exceptionally good at finding them with simple prompting. This adds substantial bandwidth to the effort of finding bugs.

In RBAC (Role-based Access Control), a role is a defined object with explicit permissions attached to it. Because roles are designed to be fixed, changing what a particular role can do (for example, in a one-off situation where other permissions are needed for the role) requires editing the role itself. However, repeatedly editing roles makes them less flexible and re-usable, and ultimately complicates access strategies as organizations scale.

The Middle East, especially the UAE and Saudi Arabia, has become a priority market for cloud service providers (CSPs) as governments accelerate digital transformation across public and private sectors. The opportunity is real, but so is the complexity. In our work with clients and regulators, Coalfire has seen that market entry often hinges less on commercial certifications and more on meeting strict data sovereignty and cybersecurity requirements.

Last summer we found a critical vulnerability in Teleport, our first in a decade. It was assigned CVE-2025-49825. This vulnerability allowed Teleport SSH certificates, issued to users of a cluster, to sign other SSH certificates which would then be incorrectly accepted by Teleport as valid. Once you can sign your own certificates, you can escalate privileges and bypass authentication controls. This is why we classified it as a critical vulnerability.

Payment and banking infrastructure continues to grow. Bare-metal servers and mainframes now sit alongside Kubernetes clusters, microservice architectures, and CI/CD pipelines running across multiple clouds and on-prem data centers. Every new environment adds its own accounts, tokens, and access paths to manage. But because this infrastructure powers live transactions, there is no room for downtime or disruptions.

Most organizations start with a VPN when they need to give employees access to internal web applications. The VPN places the user on the internal network, and from there, they can reach the app. This approach works when the user base is small and the number of internal apps is limited. But as teams grow, compliance requirements increase, and the mix of technical and non-technical users increases, a VPN’s network-level connectivity introduces new operational and security challenges.