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sophos

Understanding Asymmetric Routing Risks in Modern Firewall Deployments

Oct 6, 2026 By Joe DeGon In Sophos
In modern network environments, maintaining both operational efficiency and strong security controls requires careful design and planning. One of the more common challenges Sophos Professional Services encounters, especially during firewall upgrades or redesigns, is asymmetric routing.
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bitsight

The Attribution Trap: What Happens When Threat Actors Manipulate the Story of an Attack?

Oct 6, 2026 By Emma Stevens In BitSight
Imagine waking up Monday morning to discover you’ve been breached. The attacker has stolen sensitive financial data, set up persistent access, and then greets you with a lovely ransom note at 8:00 a.m. demanding money in exchange for the encryption key. Immediately, you reach out to your security operations team, and they quickly begin assessing the damage and reviewing the breadcrumbs left behind.
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safeaeon

What Is Cyber Insurance? Why Is It Important?

Oct 6, 2026 By SafeAeon Inc. In SafeAeon
Cyberattacks can disrupt business operations to the extent that it may take days or even weeks for businesses to restore their operations. Attackers can expose sensitive data, selling it on the dark web or using it to extort ransom payments from organizations. While there are cybersecurity measures that organizations can take, those measures only prevent and respond to these incidents rather than stopping them entirely. This is where cybersecurity insurance becomes important.
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seal security

Lost in Translation: A Native Heap Overflow in Unmaintained Jansi (CVE-2026-8484)

Oct 6, 2026 By Lev Pachmanov In Seal Security
Jansi is the small Java package that makes colored console output work everywhere, including the Windows terminals that never understood ANSI escape codes. You may not have heard of it, but if you build Java, you almost certainly have it on disk: the Apache Maven 3.9.16 distribution puts jansi-2.4.3.jar in its lib/ directory, and Maven's pom.xml declares it as a dependency.
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Build the Self-Driving SOC with Tanium Security Operations

Oct 6, 2026 By Tanium In Tanium
Attackers don't wait for humans, and neither should your SOC. Tanium Security Operations brings detection, investigation, hunting, and response together on one platform that moves at machine speed. See how Tanium Atlas works as an extension of your team: pulling live telemetry, historical activity, and the full process tree the moment a threat surfaces, hunting a hypothesis across every endpoint in your fleet, and containing threats from one endpoint to hundreds of thousands. When the hunt needs to go deeper, HuntIQ's hands-on experts take it from there, inside your environment.
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Frontier AI Impact Series, Part 1: Why Attackers Stopped Waiting for Zero-Days | Bitsight

Oct 6, 2026 By Bitsight In BitSight
Frontier AI can shrink weeks of vulnerability research into exploitation in hours. What does that mean for the flaws your team deprioritized years ago? Bitsight’s Emma Stevens, Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor, breaks it down in the first video of our new series.
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netwrix

Govern the AI agent as the identity it is

Oct 6, 2026 By Dirk Schrader In Netwrix
AI agents are non-human identities. They hold credentials, carry permissions, and act on systems around the clock, usually with standing access nobody reviews. The Salesloft Drift breach reached more than 700 organizations through exactly that kind of over-scoped, non-expiring token, with no prompt injection involved. The controls already exist: inventory every agent, scope it to least privilege, expire its access, review it on a schedule, and detect when it's abused.
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mend

NIST SSDF: 4 core practices for secure software development

Oct 6, 2026 By Stephanie Broyles In Mend
The NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) is a set of fundamental, outcome-based practices that integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Documented in NIST SP 800-218, it helps organizations reduce vulnerabilities, prevent recurrences, and establish a common language for secure development. The SSDF outlines dozens of tasks grouped into four high-level categories.
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astra

A Quiet Shift In Security Every Healthcare Compliance Team Should Read

Oct 6, 2026 By Niharika Mahesh In Astra
Change Healthcare took down a third of US claims processing. Ascension spent weeks on the papers. OCR settlements keep citing “risk analysis failure,” and HITRUST r2 assessors are asking harder questions about what actually got tested versus what got scanned. The math on pentesting shifted in the middle of all that. In 2024, 1 in 40 findings was Critical. In 2025, it’s 1 in 10.
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