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Lessons Learned - Critical Lessons for Security Leaders

Ivanti is a leading enterprise software company that offers a powerful, cloud-based IT and security platform. Our solutions are designed to scale with your business, helping IT and Security teams boost operational efficiency, cut costs and stay ahead of security threats. The Ivanti Neurons platform is cloud-native, providing a unified and reusable foundation for consistent visibility, scalability, and secure delivery. Trusted by over 34,000 customers, including 85 of the Fortune 100, Ivanti empowers organizations to tackle challenges with end-to-end solutions.

Securing 80,000 transactions per second at Infobip with HAProxy Enterprise WAF

The average cost of a security breach reached nearly $4.4 million in 2025, according to the publication Cost of Data Breach Report. To proactively address this substantial financial and security risk, Infobip, a global cloud communications platform, used HAProxy Enterprise to implement a security and uptime framework that is both highly modular and highly performant.

Cove Data Protection Feature Focus: Critical Configuration Changes

Cove 26.2 delivers Critical Configuration Changes, the second feature in our Anomaly Detection story. This feature allows users to create event-based alerts for indicators of compromise in their backup policies, such as changed retention schedules, modified backup profiles, or deleted devices. With real-time visibility into these changes, users can take just-in-time action to resolve them before recovery efforts are impacted. In this video, we walk through how to create your first notification and outline the main use cases this feature supports.

12 Best SSL Certificate Monitoring Tools in 2026

An expired or misconfigured SSL/TLS certificate doesn’t fail quietly. Users get blocked by browser warnings, conversions drop, and teams scramble to diagnose whether the problem is expiration, a missing intermediate, an SNI/hostname mismatch, or a CDN edge serving an old chain. That’s why SSL certificate monitoring in 2026 is less about “check the expiry date” and more about continuous validation + fast alerting + enough context to fix the issue quickly.

Trusted Ownership: How Ivanti Application Control scales beyond allowlisting

Application control is one of those security topics where many people carry old assumptions. Traditional allowlisting feels safe but quickly becomes a maintenance burden. Blocklisting feels reactive and incomplete. And while tools like Microsoft AppLocker led many to believe that strict allowlisting is the gold standard, modern attacks have proven otherwise. Attackers increasingly rely on legitimate, signed tools — used in the wrong context — to bypass list-based controls entirely.

Best Website Monitoring Tools for Compliance and Security in 2026

Compliance audits used to be annual fire drills. Teams would scramble for weeks gathering screenshots, pulling logs, and hoping nothing slipped through the cracks. That approach no longer works when regulations like GDPR and HIPAA require continuous documentation and real-time evidence of security controls. Website monitoring tools designed for compliance have evolved to address this reality, automating evidence collection and flagging issues before auditors ever arrive.

Is Terabox Safe in 2026? Security Risks, Data Privacy Concerns, and Safer Cloud Storage Alternatives

Cloud storage platforms have become essential for individuals, startups, and enterprises alike. From backing up photos and documents to sharing large files across teams, services like Terabox promise convenience, massive free storage, and cross-device accessibility. However, in 2026, users are asking a more important question: Is Terabox truly safe?

Card Payments Without Fear: A Deep Dive into Tokenization & PCI Compliance

Buying something online might feel instant, but behind the scenes there's a whole variety of security checks designed to keep your card data invisible. Alexander Rumyantsev, a software engineer with deep experience in financial systems, walks us through how tokenization makes this possible, and why it's reshaping how product teams build payments.

The Hidden Cost of SaaS Sprawl: When Custom Development Makes More Sense

The average enterprise now spends $55.7 million on SaaS annually, an 8% jump from last year alone. Yet here is the uncomfortable truth: a significant chunk of that money is being quietly wasted on tools that overlap, go unused, or simply do not fit the way teams actually work. SaaS sprawl has become one of the most expensive and least visible problems in modern IT. And for a growing number of organizations, the answer is not another subscription. It is custom-built software designed around the way their business actually operates.

Secure access at the speed of incident response

Picture this: it's 2am, your pager goes off, and you're staring at a production database that's on fire. You know exactly what's wrong. You know exactly how to fix it. But you can't touch anything because you're waiting on someone to approve your access request. Meanwhile, your customers are down, your SLAs are bleeding out, and you're refreshing Slack hoping someone in security is awake to click "approve." This is the incident response tax that too many teams pay.

Secure by Design : Defend against AI-driven threats

After several zero-day attacks on leading security vendors that left the industry reeling in 2024 and 2025, Ivanti redoubled our commitment to transparency, product development that prioritizes security and community awareness. The attacks galvanized our Secure by Design framework so that we could accelerate our transformation to kernel-level security — compressing a three-year roadmap into just 18 months.

The Grafana Cloud identity blueprint: balancing security and scale

If you've ever rolled out Grafana Cloud to a growing engineering organization, this pattern may sound familiar: Everything feels simple at first. You invite a few teammates, give them access, and dashboards start appearing. Then the team grows. Then the number of stacks grows. Over time, a model that once felt fast and empowering starts to feel risky, difficult to understand, and even harder to undo. This post is about avoiding that moment.

How likely is a man-in-the-middle attack?

Security vendors love the man-in-the-middle attack. It’s the boogeyman of every TLS marketing page. Some shadowy figure intercepting your traffic, reading your secrets, stealing your data. A man-in-the-middle attack is when an attacker positions themselves between two parties on a network to intercept the traffic flowing between them. In the context of TLS, that means an attacker who can present a valid certificate can read everything in plaintext and proxy it on to the real server.

How IP Geolocation Data Can Improve Website Security and Fraud Detection

Every request that hits your server carries a tiny breadcrumb of the real world - the visitor's IP address. Unpacked properly, that single string tells you far more than "who" knocked on the door; it hints at where they are, whether they took a suspicious detour, and why their story may not add up.

Mapping Privileged Access Management (PAM) Tools To Real-World Use Cases in 2026

Not every privileged access management (PAM) tool solves every problem. The PAM market has fragmented into distinct categories, each designed for different operational realities. Choosing the wrong category wastes budget and leaves gaps. Choosing the right one simplifies security and compliance simultaneously. The challenge for security teams in 2026 is that traditional PAM categories - vault-based, agent-based, cloud-native - no longer map cleanly to how organizations actually use privileged accounts.

White-Label Loyalty Platform Features Checklist

White-label loyalty platforms sound great on paper. You launch your own branded rewards program without building everything from scratch. No heavy dev work is required. Just plug it in and go. In reality, though, choosing the wrong platform can lock you into limited features, poor customization, and endless workarounds. If you are evaluating vendors right now, this checklist will help you focus on what actually matters. So, what features should a solid white label loyalty platform have?

Expert Insight: Why Local Internet Traffic Matters More Than You Think

Imagine sending a letter to your neighbour across the street, only for it to be routed through London or even Amsterdam before landing in their letterbox. This is effectively what happens to much of Scotland's internet traffic. Despite physical proximity between users, businesses and services, digital data is frequently sent on needlessly long journeys, often leaving the country before reaching its destination. This approach is inefficient, costly and poses questions about privacy, resilience and digital sovereignty.

Software Audit as a Risk Management Tool: What Teams Often Miss

Modern software systems rarely collapse because of one dramatic mistake. More often, problems build up quietly: undocumented logic, outdated libraries, brittle integrations, or security assumptions that stopped being true years ago. None of these issues look urgent on their own. Together, they create fragility. That's where a software audit becomes useful - not as a bureaucratic exercise, but as a practical way to see what's really going on inside a codebase.

SSL/TLS Certificate Lifetimes to Reduce to 47 Days

Last year it was widely reported that the CA/Browser Forum had voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47 days starting in 2029. The first reduction will come into action in a few weeks, on March 15th 2026, accelerating the need for organizations to automate their monitoring and renewal processes around certificate expiry.

A Business Guide To Detecting and Responding to Threats Where They Start

Thanks to the internet, businesses face threats that are more sophisticated, targeted, and relentless than ever before. Cyberattacks can originate from multiple points, such as ransomware, phishing campaigns, insider threats, or vulnerabilities in cloud applications. The key to mitigating these risks lies in detecting and responding to threats at their point of origin before they spread and cause significant damage.

Buyback Sites: Where to Store Data Before Selling an iPhone

iPhones are one of the top-selling smartphones in Canada. They are in demand in both new and used phone stores. An old device can be sold at many places, but buyback platforms are more convenient. Their streamlined buying process encourages sellers to resell their old devices hassle-free. Hence, if you have an old iPhone, you shouldn't wait any longer. You can receive a fair value for your phone based on its condition, including age, physical appearance, model, and more. The promise of instant cash adds to the appeal. You upload your iPhone details, the platform verifies everything, and then offers a quote.

Database Security Failures Don't Start in Security Teams

When a database security incident happens, everyone turns to the security team. We look for a simple root cause analysis, and then we add a control, tighten a policy, and maybe even buy a silver bullet tool. We feel progress! But the incident didn’t start there. It started years earlier, when the organization made a series of perfectly reasonable decisions that quietly expanded the surface area and weakened the consistency of control.

The 9 Essential NOC Metrics to Master for Operational Excellence

In today's fastpaced IT landscape, modern Network Operations Centers (NOCs) are the backbone of reliable infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. For MSPs, leveraging managed NOC services can dramatically improve uptime, security, and overall client satisfaction. The global NOC as a Service market is projected to grow from about $3.7 billion in 2025 to over $9 billion by 2034, underscoring rising demand for expert, alwayson network oversight.

How CEOs Want CISOs to Communicate Cybersecurity Risk Management Strategy

Most CEOs can recite their quarterly benchmarks and revenue down to the decimal point, but ask them about their organization's cyber risk exposure, and the answers become more vague. It's not that today’s CEOs don’t care about security — cybersecurity ranks among the top concerns for boards and executive teams. The problem runs deeper: a fundamental breakdown in how security risks are explained to business leaders that overlooks the impacts on their business outcomes.

The Best Cybersecurity Agencies in 2026: Honest Review

Finding a cybersecurity agency that you can trust for your business is essential in today's environment. Companies that fall behind on this can often find themselves the victim of serious breaches that undermine their business models. But who should you choose? That's what we look at in this review. Here is our rundown including why we've chosen every option.

What Are ISP Proxies and How Do They Actually Work

When I first heard the term ISP proxies, it sounded confusing. It felt technical and a little intimidating. I assumed it was something only developers or big companies used. Over time, I realized it is not that complicated. At its core, it is just about how your internet identity looks to the outside world. Once that clicked, everything else started to make sense.

Microsoft Entra ID secrets and certificates: One of the most preventable causes of enterprise application failures

All it takes to make critical applications to fail, customer portals to crash, and render internal systems inaccessible is just one expired client secret. Not a sophisticated cyberattack. Not a worldwide cloud service outage. Just a single credential that quietly expired while everyone focused on "more important" things. Is secret expiry that big of a concern? Chances are great that enterprise-scale organizations have at least one expired credential in production right now.

BygoneSSL happened to us

A few months ago I wrote about BygoneSSL and the 1.5 million domains with valid certificates owned by someone else. Domains change hands but certificates don’t know. The old owner keeps their private key, and the certificate keeps working. It’s an industry problem, but it turns out it’s our problem too. We purchased certkit.dev for internal development and demos.

A Technical Guide to Controls Engineering

The modern world runs on mission-critical software. It moves our money, drives our cars, diagnoses our illnesses, and fundamentally improves our lives. But, organizations building this critical software face a paradox: they need to move fast to stay competitive, but they also need rigorous governance to manage risk. This has created a lot of tension in regulated industries.

How Organisations Save Time and Cost With Automated Media Redaction Software

If your organisation handles body-worn video, CCTV, interview recordings, customer calls, or even screen captures, you already know redaction isn't just a "privacy step." It's a production pipeline-often slow, repetitive, and surprisingly expensive.

Boosting IT Productivity with AI-Driven Spreadsheet Automation

Modern IT teams operate under constant pressure. They are expected to deliver faster, reduce errors, maintain uptime, and extract meaningful insights from ever-growing volumes of operational data. Spreadsheets remain one of the most widely used tools in IT operations, even in organizations that rely heavily on cloud platforms, monitoring systems, and DevOps pipelines. However, manual spreadsheet work often becomes a productivity bottleneck.

How to Spot When It's Time to Call in a Bug Sweep Expert

Most people picture "bugs" as something out of a spy film: smoky boardrooms, trench coats, and impossible gadgets. In reality, covert listening and tracking have become unglamorous, affordable, and-crucially-easy to hide in plain sight. A modern "bug" might be a microphone the size of a coin, a repurposed phone left in a drawer, or a tracker slipped into a car's trim. And the victims aren't only celebrities or CEOs. Disputes over money, custody, intellectual property, or workplace conflict are far more common drivers than Hollywood-style intrigue.

5 Ways to Defend Yourself Against Allegations of Data Misuse or Cybercrime

You may have the impression that cybercrime charges only target shadowy and sketchy personalities on the net. Yet you can face serious allegations or charges over a simple login, a shared drive, or a file you thought you could use. However, when data misuse claims surface, your reaction and next steps can determine your tomorrow. Adopting a calm and more informed strategy can help protect your record, reputation, and future.

Why Security and Stability Matter in Infrastructure Management

In the high-stakes world of modern infrastructure management, "move fast but break things" is not a viable strategy. As organizations scale their digital footprints, the competing demands of velocity and vulnerability have created a new operational reality. Today, the integrity of your infrastructure is synonymous with the integrity of your business. For system administrators and DevOps engineers, the landscape has shifted. It is not enough to simply provision servers and deploy applications.

NIS2 and CER Serve a Broader Purpose Than Cybersecurity - The 5 Biggest Risks You Need to Address Now

The European directives NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive 2) and Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive have rapidly sharpened the conversation around digital resilience. While many organizations initially viewed these directives as an extension of their cybersecurity obligations, it is becoming increasingly clear that much more is at stake. These directives require a strategic transformation in how organizations manage risks, processes, and responsibilities.

Environment support in Terraform Provider for Kosli - v0.2.0

We’re excited to announce support of physical environments in the Terraform Provider for Kosli! What’s Included Environment Management: Full lifecycle support for creating, updating, and managing physical environments types: K8S, ECS, S3, docker, server, and lambda. Manage legacy environments as IaC: Import your existing physical environments to have Terraform manage them.

8 Steps Companies Can Take To Strengthen Business Premises Security

Improving the safety of your business premises is a continuous process. New threats appear every year, and physical vulnerabilities can put your team and your assets at risk. Taking a proactive approach helps you stay ahead of potential intruders.

Cybersecurity Planning for Small Business Operations

Building a solid defense for your company is about more than just installing a single software program. In the current year, digital threats have become a professionalized industry where attackers use advanced tools to target smaller organizations. A recent report noted that 95% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by simple human error. This means that your planning must focus on both technical tools and the people using them daily. By taking a proactive approach, you can protect your assets and maintain the trust of your clients.

Safe Vendor Demos - How to Share Video Samples Without Disclosing Personal Data

Evaluating a video-focused software vendor often requires sending "real" footage excerpts. This is also the moment when it's easy to overshare data - samples may include bystanders' faces, employees, minors, license plates, and contextual details that enable identification. The most practical way to reduce risk is to anonymize visual data before sending it outside the organization - usually by blurring faces and masking license plates.

From Cyberattacks to Data Leaks: Rethinking Digital Risk Protection

Digital threats change faster than many teams can keep up with today. Staying safe requires more than just a strong password or a basic firewall. Modern risks come from many angles, like phishing and simple human error. Taking a new look at protection helps keep your data where it belongs.

Kubernetes Network Observability: Comparing Calico, Cilium, Retina, and Netobserv

Calico, Cilium, Retina, and Netobserv: Which Observability Tool is Right for Your Kubernetes Cluster? Network observability is a tale as old as the OSI model itself and anyone who has managed a network or even a Kubernetes cluster knows the feeling: a service suddenly can’t reach its dependency, a pod is mysteriously offline, and the Slack alerts start rolling in. Investigating network connectivity issues in these complex, distributed environments can be incredibly time consuming.

AI Medical Scribe in Action: How AI-Powered Medical Scribes Are Transforming Clinical Documentation

In an era where healthcare systems are stretched thin and clinicians are inundated with administrative work, technological innovation has become essential-not optional. Among the most impactful advances is the emergence of the ai medical scribe, a tool that is not just streamlining clinical documentation but is fundamentally reshaping how patient care is delivered and recorded. This editorial dives deep into the transformative power of AI-powered medical scribes, offers real-world examples, and provides expert-level analysis of why this technology is pivotal for modern medicine.

Key Features of Effective Continuing Education Software

More information was the way to improve yourself, and it wasn't difficult to see that your undergraduate degree was only the beginning of your journey into the workforce. Software to continuously learn has become very important as technology grows. Choosing the correct alternative can have a profound impact and significantly enhance a lifelong learning experience. But what should you look for in such a platform?

Cortex and Semgrep partner to strengthen application security and drive continuous improvement

At Cortex, our mission is to help engineering organizations deliver reliable, secure, efficient software, faster. With Cortex, teams can standardize against best practices and create a culture of continuous improvement to achieve this. Today, we’re excited to announce a formalized partnership with Semgrep, a leader in modern static analysis and code security.

The Operational Mechanics and Security of Online Legal Calculators

The digitization of the legal sector has shifted complex administrative burdens from expensive firms to automated, user-driven algorithms. For operationally-minded individuals and consumers, the ability to assess the safety and efficiency of these technologies is paramount. As legal processes move from physical offices to digital interfaces, understanding the backend mechanics of these tools is essential for evaluating accuracy and ensuring data privacy.

Secure OAuth is easy to demo and hard to operate at scale

Most teams think about OAuth the same way they think about logging. It is necessary, familiar, and supposedly solved. Then it hits production. Suddenly, it is not just one authentication flow. It is a complex web of two or more applications, multiple environments, cookies, redirects, secrets, and route boundaries. The uncomfortable truth is that OAuth security is not just an implementation detail. It is an operational system, and that system is only as strong as the platform it runs on.

10 Tips to Prevent Eavesdropping Attacks in Your Organization

Businesses today leverage technology in almost all aspects of their operations because it enhances efficiency. However, this reliance on digital tools exposes them to cyber threats like eavesdropping. Research says more than 37% of smartphones worldwide have become eavesdropping targets. That's a lot of mobile devices belonging to employees of many companies.

Track cyber security with Reports in Digital Risk Analyzer

Discover how Site24x7’s Digital Risk Analyzer Reports help you instantly uncover vulnerabilities and assess multi-domain risks. In this quick walkthrough, learn how to view domain health, generate detailed or consolidated reports, schedule automated delivery, and share PDF insights with your team. Perfect for IT admins, DevOps, MSPs, and business leaders who want fast, actionable visibility into their cybersecurity posture.

The Role of Static Residential Connections in Today's Web

Geographic restrictions and IP blocking affect roughly 73% of businesses attempting large-scale data collection. That's a staggering number when you consider how much modern commerce depends on accessing region-specific information. The solution isn't complicated, but it requires understanding how internet infrastructure actually works. Static residential connections have become the preferred method for maintaining consistent online identities while accessing geographically distributed content.

Chrysalis Backdoor: What You Need to Know - and How Progress Flowmon Threat Briefing Helps You Stay Ahead

A newly analyzed threat, Chrysalis, is a sophisticated backdoor attributed to the Chinese APT group Lotus Blossom. The malware employs advanced evasion techniques including heavy obfuscation, API hashing, dynamic DNS resolution, custom encryption and stealthy C2 communication disguised as legitimate traffic.

What is Cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity refers to the processes and technology used to protect information technology networks, data, people, servers, endpoint devices and other IT-related systems from cyberattacks. The need for this protection has never been greater. All organizations (in both private and public sectors) now exist in a threat landscape that allows attacks against their IT infrastructure.

Migrating from Ingress NGINX to Calico Ingress Gateway: A Step-by-Step Guide

In our previous post, we addressed the most common questions platform teams are asking as they prepare for the retirement of the NGINX Ingress Controller. With the March 2026 deadline fast approaching, this guide provides a hands-on, step-by-step walkthrough for migrating to the Kubernetes Gateway API using Calico Ingress Gateway. You will learn how to translate NGINX annotations into HTTPRoute rules, run both models side by side, and safely cut over live traffic.

Qwiet AI Is Now Harness SAST and SCA | Harness Blog

Modern application security is struggling to keep up with AI-driven development and cloud-native scale, especially when security feels bolted onto CI/CD instead of built in. Harness SAST and SCA bring AI-powered application security testing natively into the Harness platform, reducing noise and alert fatigue. By identifying only vulnerabilities that are actually reachable in production code, teams get findings they can trust and act on faster.

Kosli and Team Topologies - A Strategic Partnership for SDLC Governance

We’re delighted to announce a strategic partnership between Kosli and TeamTopologies - a collaboration that brings together SDLC Governance automation with the world’s leading framework for organizing business and technology for fast flow of value.

Calico Ingress Gateway: Key FAQs Before Migrating from NGINX Ingress Controller

We recently sat down with representatives from 42 companies to discuss a pivotal moment in Kubernetes networking: the NGINX Ingress retirement. With the March 2026 retirement of the NGINX Ingress Controller fast approaching, platform teams are now facing a hard deadline to modernize their ingress strategy.

Your servers shouldn't need to know ACME

CertBot assumes every server that needs a certificate should also know how to request one, validate domain ownership, handle renewals, and manage failures. This makes sense with a handful of servers. One server, one cert, done. But infrastructures grow. Now you’ve got web farms sharing wildcards, load balancers, mail servers, VPN appliances. The “every server for itself” model doesn’t scale and isn’t sustainable. Even the Let’s Encrypt community knows it.

Top 10 SSL Monitoring Tools.

SSL failures don’t usually break a site all at once. A certificate expires, a chain changes, or a browser update tightens rules, and users start seeing warnings before teams notice. By the time alerts fire, trust has already taken a hit. This post reviews SSL monitoring tools from an operational standpoint. How they detect upcoming expirations, validate certificate chains, and surface issues across environments and domains.