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AI Is Accelerating Cyber Risk. Policy Determines Whether Organizations Stay in Control.

Anthropic’s Mythos model is putting a spotlight on a reality security teams already know too well: every connected environment contains vulnerabilities. What’s changing is the speed. The latest research from ...

5 Policy Metrics Every CISO Should Be Asking For

| | Insights
Most security teams measure activity. How many firewall changes were processed. How many tickets were closed. How many compliance checks passed. But those are operational statistics, not security outcomes. The ...

Zero Trust Has a Policy Governance Problem: Why Segmentation Fails Without Continuous Policy Control

| | zero trust
Zero Trust has become one of the defining cybersecurity strategies of the modern enterprise for good reason. Organizations have invested heavily in microsegmentation, ZTNA, and cloud-native enforcement controls to reduce ...

Microsegmentation vs Network Segmentation: The Question Every Security Team Eventually Asks

Flat networks are no longer defensible. At some point, every enterprise reaches the same inflection: we need segmentation, but what kind? That question often gets framed as a choice: network ...

How to Trace an Access Path Across Multiple Firewalls

| | Network Security
When a connection fails or succeeds unexpectedly, the first question is simple: Why? But answering that question is not simple in modern environments. A single connection between two systems may ...

How FireMon Evaluates Firewall Changes Before Deployment

| | Change Management
A Step-by-Step Breakdown of Pre-Change Assessment (PCA) Firewall changes are where good intentions turn into outages. A rule gets opened to restore an application. A port is widened to troubleshoot ...

Microsegmentation Is Creating More Policy Than Teams Can Manage. AI Won’t Fix It.

| | microsegmentation
Microsegmentation has become a cornerstone of modern security. It promises granular control, reduced lateral movement, and a practical path to Zero Trust. And as organizations expand across hybrid, cloud, and ...

It Started as an Idea. It Became Something the Industry Needed.

| | Cyber Confessionals
We were recently recognized with a SILVER GLOBEE® AWARD for Cyber Confessionals. It is a meaningful signal, and I am grateful for it. At the same time, the award is ...

How to Validate Microsegmentation Policies Before Enforcement

Microsegmentation is easy to define and hard to implement. On paper, the goal is straightforward: Restrict access to only what is required Eliminate unnecessary lateral movement Enforce least privilege across ...

When AI Becomes the Punchline

An April Fools’ Reflection After RSAC The RSAC Reality Check We just got back from RSAC, and if you spent any time on the floor, one thing was impossible to ...