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Privileged Access Management (PAM) is your organization's security control center for managing and monitoring high-level access to critical systems. Think of it as a sophisticated vault system that safeguards your most powerful administrative credentials while maintaining detailed audit trails of their usage. As we head into 2026, PAM has become crucial. Here's why: Cyberattacks are getting scarier and more complicated.

During a recent investigation into AMOS InfoStealer, Kroll Threat Intelligence Team has discovered a troubling new delivery vector that leverages the growing trust users place in AI tools. In this case, attackers leveraged ChatGPT as the source of guidance, tricking victims into initiating the infection, presenting it as a legitimate solution to a common technical problem. Victims were tricked into believing they were running a harmless command to fix a sound issue on their Mac device.

Defining success looks different for security organizations than it does for product, infrastructure, and other engineering teams. The latter group can often point to tangible outcomes, such as newly shipped features or performance improvements. Security orgs succeed when risks are lowered and the company’s posture improves over time, which are results that aren’t as easy to recognize but still valuable.

We've previously addressed the foundational problems of visibility and automated human risk management. However, the final, most enduring challenge remains: how do you address the human element that lies at the core of human cybersecurity risk? Now more than ever, users are prime targets for attackers, but the traditional playbook offers little more than check-the-box training (which is often easily forgotten).

For decades, cybersecurity has been organized around three dominant pillars: endpoint security, network security, and cloud security. These domains have shaped technology categories, vendor ecosystems, and enterprise budgets. They have matured into multi-billion-dollar markets, each responding to successive waves of digital transformation. However, a tectonic shift is underway.

Incident response (IR) plans are a cornerstone of organisational resilience. Many businesses maintain policies, run tabletop exercises, and document procedures, but high-impact incidents still expose gaps in real-world response. Red team exercises provide a practical, objective-driven way to test incident response readiness.