Connor O’Lairy helps cybersecurity professionals understand the importance of establishing and maintaining secure configuration baselines. His content looks at how configuration security can complement patching efforts, reduce the attack surface, and mitigate the risk of exploitation. Connor focuses on creating content that is easy to understand, while still being rich in information and practical to implement.
What matters more to breach outcomes now: the AI a company buys—or the people who guide, govern, and question it when every minute counts and the wrong judgment can turn an incident into a crisis.
Feature ArticleWhen the office lights dim and calendars show a long weekend, intrusions don’t slow down—they sharpen, and that timing is no accident according to security leaders, incident responders, and identity architects who converged on one clear point: attack...
Roundup Article Read MoreSecurity leaders entered 2026 facing sprawling attack surfaces that changed by the hour, and the cost of guessing wrong ballooned as misconfigurations, identity drift, and vendor exposures converged into single points of failure that legacy scanners...
Read MoreOrganizations that rely on centralized identity services faced a stark reality check as a critical pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in Oracle Identity Manager became a high-priority emergency after reports confirmed active exploitation a...
Read MoreImagine a widely used, free tool on millions of devices suddenly becoming a gateway for cybercriminals to infiltrate systems with just a single click, a scenario that has now become a harsh reality for users of 7-Zip, a popular file compression softw...
Read MoreIn an era where cyber threats evolve at a relentless pace, the recent enhancement to Rapid7’s Metasploit Framework has sent ripples through the cybersecurity community by addressing critical flaws in Fortinet’s FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)...
Read MoreImagine walking into your office kitchen for that first cup of coffee.
Read MoreIn a world increasingly reliant on electricity, what happens when the power grid—the backbone of modern life—becomes a prime target for cyberattacks and physical sabotage, leaving hospitals in darkness, businesses at a standstill, and entire communit...
Feature Article Read MoreThe rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has created a profound dilemma for the cybersecurity industry, as the same large language models capable of writing secure code can also be used to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities at an unp...
Read MoreThe era of treating cybersecurity incident response plans as static, shelf-worn documents has definitively ended, replaced by a new reality where rapid, precise, and transparent action is not just best practice but a legal mandate.
Read MoreThe nation's top cyber official has delivered a clear and urgent message to the private sector, asserting that the government's ability to defend against digital threats is fundamentally dependent on direct and sustained collaboration with industry l...
Industry Report Read MoreThe digital shadows of global diplomacy have grown longer and more menacing, with a single cyber espionage operation successfully breaching critical infrastructure in nearly one-fifth of the world's nations.
Trend Analysis Read MoreThe digital landscape of cybersecurity has been fundamentally altered by a recent breakthrough, demonstrating that advanced artificial intelligence can now proactively hunt for and identify critical software vulnerabilities on a scale previously thou...
Read MoreThe very tools designed to grant unparalleled insight into an organization's data can inadvertently become the gateways for its most significant security breaches.
Technology Review Read MoreThe seemingly insignificant act of choosing a simple, guessable password for a server can inadvertently hand over the keys to an entire digital infrastructure, transforming a trusted asset into a clandestine operative working for a sophisticated cybe...
Feature Article Read MoreThe digital trust users place in their favorite online platforms often extends invisibly to a network of external partners, and a vulnerability in any one of these links can unravel the security of the entire chain.
How-To Guide Read MoreA highly sophisticated cyber-espionage operation has rapidly weaponized a significant vulnerability in the popular WinRAR file compression utility, launching targeted attacks against government entities just days after the flaw was publicly disclosed...
Read MoreThe digital threat landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, with a new phishing attack now being launched every 19 seconds, a frequency that has more than doubled since 2024.
Read MoreA seemingly innocent email from a trusted friend or colleague appears in an inbox, complete with an invitation or a link to an interesting document, prompting an immediate click without a second thought.
Read MoreThe streamlined convenience of modern cloud development environments may be masking a critical security flaw that allows a project’s own configuration files to execute malicious code automatically upon startup.
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