Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Konstantin (Kostya) Ostrovsky is the Chief Architect at Torq, where he leverages over 18 years of experience in software engineering and architecture. He specializes in cybersecurity, with a background that began with writing Windows Kernel Drivers. Konstantin is also a frequent speaker at software engineering conferences globally. Phishing attacks have evolved significantly in recent years, rendering traditional, rule-based defenses ineffective against sophisticated threats.

Organizations gather massive volumes of threat feed data—IP addresses, hashes, domains, tactics—but these often remain siloed or poorly correlated, leaving high-value alerts buried in noise. When those raw indicators live in separate systems, you end up chasing every alert, missing the bigger picture of coordinated attacks. Your team feels stuck in reactive mode, firefighting low priority alerts while real attackers move freely.

When most people think about cybersecurity, they picture firewalls, anti-virus software, and complex passwords. But the weakest link isn’t a server or a laptop—it’s a person. Social engineering attacks exploit human behavior rather than technical vulnerabilities, and four techniques dominate the landscape today: phishing, smishing, vishing, and quishing.

Data is moving faster than your controls. In 2024, AI privacy/security incidents jumped 56.4%, and 82% of breaches involve cloud systems; the same lanes your LLMs, agents, and RAG pipelines speed through every day. If you’re shipping GenAI inside a regulated org, you need guardrails that protect PII/PHI and IP without crushing context or tanking accuracy. Use this guide to.

As you can tell I’m on a bit of a “migrate all the things” story arc here of late and today will be the latest installment. In my last post I covered using the VeeaMover capability to move backups between repositories or jobs but that is not an effective data migration mechanism if you’ve used the Capacity Tier “COPY” capability of a Veeam Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR).