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Continuous integration and delivery pipelines have become privileged control planes. They hold cloud credentials, deploy keys, and the ability to ship code to production. As teams grow from a handful of repositories to dozens of services,…
Why password MFA is no longer enough for privileged paths Phishing kits, adversary-in-the-middle proxies, and helpdesk social engineering routinely defeat one-time passcodes and push approvals. Phishing-resistant authentication—passkeys and other WebAuthn/FIDO2 authenticators—binds the login to the real…
In early December 2025, Phoenix Education Partners—the parent of the University of Phoenix—disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). The company’s Form 8-K described unauthorized access detected on November 21, 2025, with data copied…
Year-end is when calendars thin, change freezes loom, and security debt becomes visible—if you look. A practical security debt review is not a full audit theater. It is a focused inventory of assets, identities, certificates, remote…
A web application firewall sits in the path of HTTP traffic and tries to stop common attacks before they reach application code. That simple description hides a placement decision that shapes both security outcomes and operational…
In early October 2025, Oracle published an emergency security alert for CVE-2025-61882, a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite. Public reporting through October tied the flaw to data-theft and extortion activity associated with the…
On October 15, 2025, F5 disclosed a nation-state intrusion into portions of its internal systems and filed a related Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The same day, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…
Zero Trust Network Access is often sold as a product category, but for small operations teams it is better treated as a sequence of practical controls: stop putting trust in network location, verify identity and device…
Third-party access is your access. Vendors who connect through virtual private networks, shared administrator accounts, browser-based support tools, or continuous-integration integrations inherit a slice of your trust boundary. Questionnaires capture a moment in time. Continuous control…
Additional operational guidance Sustainable security operations depend on cadence, ownership, and verification. Add calendar reminders for access reviews, patch windows, and detection tuning. Keep exception lists short and dated. When staffing is thin, protect the highest-signal…