Understanding Cybersecurity Risk: Assessment and Management Explained

Understanding Cybersecurity Risk: Assessment and Management Explained

Key Takeaways Introduction In the digital age, cybersecurity is crucial. Organizations and businesses face a staggering number of potential threats, including hackers, malware, data breaches, and more. Organizations must understand their cyber ...
What is a Cyber Risk Appetite — and Why CISOs Must Define It

What is a Cyber Risk Appetite — and Why CISOs Must Define It

For years, security teams have operated in a fog: chasing vulnerabilities, patching urgently, and justifying spend through fear-based narratives. But that’s changing. Mature organizations are asking a sharper question: “What level of ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 03/14/25

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 03/14/25

Insight No. 1 — We are frogs, falling asleep in security-debt stew Companies are drowning in high-risk software security debt, with critical vulnerabilities festering for an average of 252 days before they’re ...
How the EU Product Liability Directive (EU PLD) is Changing Software Security | Contrast Security

How the EU Product Liability Directive (EU PLD) is Changing Software Security | Contrast Security

Companies that sell software that can be used or downloaded by anyone in the European Union are facing a major new liability. Late last year, the European Commission finalized fundamental changes to ...

The Path to Clarity and Control with A Cyber Risk Assessment

The attack surface is constantly shifting—new assets, cloud services & workloads, APIs, and microservices emerge almost daily while legacy systems are retired and, hopefully, taken offline. This relentless pace creates a complex ...

Four New Balbix Capabilities You’ll Love!

Organizations today face a surge of vulnerabilities and exposures. With data on assets and exposures scattered across platforms, complexity hinders timely action. Security teams are left to manually sift through fragmented data ...

Seeing the Unseen: How Generative AI Elevates Situational Awareness in Cybersecurity

Situational awareness in cybersecurity is hard! And poor situational awareness can be disastrous in cybersecurity. For a CISO, it could mean missing acting on a critical gap in the security program, leading ...
A Cybersecurity AI Assistant: The Pricey Addition You Don’t Need—Or Do You?

A Cybersecurity AI Assistant: The Pricey Addition You Don’t Need—Or Do You?

You’ve probably seen all the buzz lately—announcements about cybersecurity AI assistants promising to revolutionize the way companies defend against threats. With so much noise in the industry, it’s tough to know whether ...
9 Powerful Ways AI Can Enhance Cyber Risk Management Today

9 Powerful Ways AI Can Enhance Cyber Risk Management Today

TL;DR: The recent Ponemon report, sponsored by Balbix, shows that organizations recognize that Artificial intelligence (AI) offers significant potential to address the cybersecurity skills gap through the automation of operational tasks, enabling ...
Ponemon Report: The Top Three AI Cyber Risks Revealed

Ponemon Report: The Top Three AI Cyber Risks Revealed

The 2024 State of Enterprise Cyber Risk in the Age of AI report, independently conducted by Ponemon Institute and analyzed and published by Balbix, is fueled by over 20,000 answers from hundreds ...