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.
Deploying a fleet of Windows devices with consistent settings presents a formidable challenge for IT administrators, often involving repetitive manual configurations that are both time-consuming and prone to human error.
Read MoreCountless organizations are caught in a frustrating cycle, investing millions in sophisticated cybersecurity tools only to fail routine compliance audits because of something as elementary as a password.
Read MoreThe foundational assumption that organizations have time to react between a vulnerability's disclosure and its exploitation is now obsolete, forcing a complete re-evaluation of defensive strategies across every industry.
Read MoreA fundamental transformation is reshaping the aviation industry’s technological core as the long-standing paradigm of hardware-centric flight decks gives way to a dynamic, software-defined avionics (SDA) architecture.
Read MoreIn the hyper-digitized landscape of modern security, the most profound lessons about protecting critical data come not from the latest malware strain but from the dusty case files of Cold War-era traitors.
Feature Article Read MoreThe silent hum of a nation's power grid has become the new frontline in digital warfare, where the algorithms designed to optimize energy flow are now the very vulnerabilities targeted by sophisticated state-sponsored adversaries.
Industry Report Read MoreThe foundational promise of virtualization technology has always been secure, isolated environments, where virtual machines operate in sandboxes, neatly separated from each other and the underlying hardware.
Read MoreIn the intricate and often clandestine world of cyber warfare, a new kind of adversary has emerged, one that not only infiltrates networks to steal secrets for itself but also expertly builds and rents out the digital keys to the kingdom for other ma...
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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