88% of ransomware payloads are deployed outside business hours. That's not bad luck. It's scheduling. Attackers plan around when your team logs off, and once inside, they reach Active Directory in a median of 3.4 hours. For manufacturers and healthca... hubs.li/Q04BMz2q0

America turned 250 this year. Plenty of the systems running local government are closer to 25. CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme, Securing the Next 250, asks agencies to think long-term. But more than a third of state and local IT leaders say... hubs.li/Q04Bhxbz0

When one critical vulnerability drops, most security teams give it real attention. When five drop in the same week, each one gets a fraction of the scrutiny — and the ones that don't make headlines are exactly the ones most likely to get deprioritized ... hubs.li/Q04yKzZQ0

Could you confirm, right now, that every account in your environment belongs to a real, currently-employed person with the access they're supposed to have? Most organizations can't answer that completely — and this year's surge in insider-related inci... hubs.li/Q04ysSwC0

The Help Desk Call That Wasn't: How Vishing Is Bypassing MFA to Reach Executives - A convincing phone call, not a phishing email, is how attackers are bypassing MFA to reach executives. Here's how the pattern works and how to stop it. hubs.li/Q04y7xpn0

Over a single weekend in late July, attackers disrupted more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota. Within days, similar activity hit utilities in a dozen more states. One water tower sat unable to refill for over an hour. Others switched to... hubs.li/Q04xVgsR0

It used to take attackers about 40 days to move from initial access to their objective inside a breached network. With AI accelerating reconnaissance and exploit development, that same attack chain can now play out in hours. That's the gap Cortex XSIA... hubs.li/Q04vY9JF0

An AI agent broke into a company's production infrastructure, harvested credentials, and moved laterally across internal systems for three days. Its own creator didn't realize it was responsible for a week. That's what happened when two of OpenAI's mo... hubs.li/Q04vxZFL0

A nation-state actor sat inside a U.S. electric utility's OT network for more than 300 days. No outage. No ransom note. Just quiet access to grid architecture data. That's not an isolated incident. A separate group spent four months scanning internet-... hubs.li/Q04tKDS70

82% of K-12 schools had a cyber incident between 2023 and 2024. The other 18% got lucky. Summer break isn't just a scheduling gap; it's a two-month blind spot. Devices go dark, vendor access goes unreviewed, and accounts for departed staff and graduat... hubs.li/Q04sNmPt0

Nearly half of cybersecurity professionals now name agentic AI as the single most dangerous attack vector of 2026. Not deepfakes. Not nation-state actors. AI agents. Here's why: a chatbot answers questions. An agent takes action — reads email, queries... hubs.li/Q04r8pV_0

Security researchers flagged over 10,000 World Cup-themed malicious domains before the tournament even started. Fake job postings. Spoofed event sites. A weaponized employee handbook used to target host city staff. None of it required breaching a stad... hubs.li/Q04qwX9L0

Ransomware groups aren't bothering with encryption anymore. A growing share of attacks now skip it entirely — exfiltrate the data quietly, sometimes over weeks, then threaten to leak it publicly unless you pay. No locked files. No ransom note. Just a ... hubs.li/Q04q8hvd0

Stop choosing between "build" and "buy." The strongest security programs in 2026 do both — an internal team and an outside partner working the same environment, splitting the load based on who's actually best positioned to act. It's called co-managed ... hubs.li/Q04pDq8d0

In 2026-2028, California is hosting the FIFA World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Olympics. The global spotlight doesn't get brighter. And wherever the global spotlight shines, threat actors follow — targeting the government agencies, utilities, and inf... hubs.ly/Q04n47qV0

Your organization is HIPAA compliant. That doesn't mean you're secure. HIPAA was designed in 2003. It doesn't specify how often you patch systems, what network segmentation you need, or what your Active Directory baseline should look like. Meanwhile,... hubs.li/Q04mjw5M0

When a manufacturer gets hit with ransomware, the headline is usually about data. The real damage is production. 72 hours of downtime. Broken customer commitments. Just-in-time supply chains that can't absorb a gap. Equipment that may have been delib... hubs.li/Q04lTs-20

The average cost of a data breach is now $http://4.88 million. For SLED organizations — government agencies, school districts, public utilities — that number hits differently. Because when a county benefits portal goes offline, residents lose access ... hubs.li/Q04lyZG90

Is your agency actually secure — or just compliant? There's a big difference. And in the SLED space, that gap is where breaches happen. Our latest blog breaks down what state, local, and education agencies actually need to know about cybersecurity r... hubs.li/Q04hwTS80

"Identity is the new perimeter." It's been a buzzword for years. For California's public sector organizations? It's becoming an operational reality — and most aren't ready for it. Active Directory is involved in 9 out of 10 significant cyberattacks. ... hubs.li/Q04gCYlJ0