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Discover NowAnnual vendor audits produce a snapshot; vendor risk is a movie. See why the 364 days between formal assessments is where 48% of third-party breaches actually happen, and how continuous vendor monitoring closes that gap for DORA and NIS2 compliance.
Phishing-as-a-service kits like EvilTokens and Kali365 no longer need a fake login page. See how AiTM proxies and OAuth device code abuse bypass MFA, and what actually stops them.
From 11 September 2026, CRA reporting obligations require manufacturers to file an early warning within 24 hours of becoming aware that a product is being actively exploited. The regulation measures awareness, not exploitation — and for most organisations, awareness is the part that’s not ready.
CVE volume in 2026 is set to double the 2023 figure, yet only about two percent of published vulnerabilities are ever confirmed exploited. See which CVEs actually mattered this year, and the four filters that replace volume-based triage.
Our H1 2026 analysis found that 32.1% of exploited vulnerabilities were attacked before a fix even existed. Patch velocity cannot close that window. See who should own it, and which controls actually work when there is no patch to install.
API sprawl is not a documentation problem, it is a structural one. Shadow APIs, zombie APIs and inherited endpoints grow every week through normal engineering work, and only 15 percent of organisations trust their inventory. See why continuous, outside-in discovery is the only fix that keeps pace.
Device code phishing defeats even hardware security keys and passkeys by hijacking OAuth’s device authorization flow instead of stealing a password. It passes every awareness-training check because nothing about the login page is fake.
A finance employee joined a video call with his CFO and colleagues — every face was synthetic. The deepfake video call attack that moved $25.6 million in 15 transfers, and the five-control verification protocol that stops it even when the impersonation is perfect.
A single HR assessment vendor breach exposed psychometric profiles and interview recordings for executives across eleven organizations. See why people data vendors sit outside standard TPRM scope, and what closing that blind spot requires.
The ransomware ecosystem has fragmented past the point where group-based playbooks work: 146 active groups, 61 new since April 2025, and a 4.9-month average lifespan. Here’s why attribution is becoming less useful as a defensive input—and what behavioural detection and pre-attack intelligence look like instead.
