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Pen Tests Fail When You Schedule Them Yearly

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Pen Tests Fail When You Schedule Them Yearly

You re running quarterly pen tests, patching critical CVEs within 30 days, and checking the compliance boxes. Then you discover a vulnerability that s already being exploited in production. The pen te

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Agent Identity Lifecycle Policy Template

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Agent Identity Lifecycle Policy Template

If you re building or deploying AI agents that access production systems, you need an identity governance policy that works at agent speed. Traditional access control policies assume you re managing h

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AI Workloads in Kubernetes: A Security Implementation Playbook

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AI Workloads in Kubernetes: A Security Implementation Playbook

Your Kubernetes cluster is running inference endpoints that make thousands of external API calls per minute. Your AI agents are spinning up containers to execute code they generated. Your security pol

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Pentests Still Live in PDFs? 5 Myths Blocking Real-Time Security

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Pentests Still Live in PDFs? 5 Myths Blocking Real-Time Security

Your pentest vendor sends a 47-page PDF. Your team triages it into Jira tickets. Developers ask clarifying questions via Slack. The vendor responds three days later via email. By the time you verify t

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Five Burp Suite Mistakes That Leave Your Apps Exposed

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Five Burp Suite Mistakes That Leave Your Apps Exposed

Your team adopted Burp Suite six months ago to enhance your web application security testing as part of your SOC 2 Type II preparation. Yet, your scans keep missing SQL injection vulnerabilities that

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CI/CD Pipeline Security Policy Template

Your CI/CD pipeline is the most privileged account in your infrastructure. It deploys to production, accesses secrets, and runs on every commit. Yet, many security policies treat it like any other sys

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MCP Risk Discovery: A 5-Phase Implementation Plan

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MCP Risk Discovery: A 5-Phase Implementation Plan

Your developers are already using AI coding assistants. Some of these assistants connect to external servers through Model Context Protocol (MCP). You likely have no visibility into which servers they

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Should Your Security Framework Treat AI Agents Like Users or Like Code?

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Should Your Security Framework Treat AI Agents Like Users or Like Code?

The CISA guide on agentic AI security highlights a critical debate for security engineers: should autonomous AI systems be treated as privileged users needing identity controls, or as application comp

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Short-Lived Credentials Won't Save You From Your Real Problem

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Short-Lived Credentials Won't Save You From Your Real Problem

The Conventional Wisdom Your security team may believe that short-lived credentials are the ultimate solution to credential sprawl. The logic seems solid: a static API key valid for 90 days creates 7,

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"We just added MCP to our agent—how worried should we be?"

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"We just added MCP to our agent—how worried should we be?"

Context: Questions from teams deploying AI agents Security channels have been inundated with questions after OX Security disclosed vulnerabilities in the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Over 30 remote c

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Developer Security Intelligence Configuration Template

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Developer Security Intelligence Configuration Template

Security teams invest significant time building threat intelligence feeds, vulnerability scanners, and policy engines, only to see developers overlook them due to separate dashboards and context-switc

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AI Code Generators Don't Write Insecure Code (And Other Dangerous Myths)

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AI Code Generators Don't Write Insecure Code (And Other Dangerous Myths)

Your team may have adopted tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude to accelerate development. While management appreciates the increased productivity, and developers enjoy bypassing repetitive tasks, secu

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Should You Rely on Your Scanner to Catch the Next Critical Framework Bug?

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Should You Rely on Your Scanner to Catch the Next Critical Framework Bug?

The Question at Hand React2Shell landed with two CVEs (CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478), both scoring a perfect 10.0 on CVSS. Within days, PortSwigger added detection capabilities into Burp Suite s

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