Security insights & guides
Who Owns Patching? A RACI Model for Security and IT Ops
A concrete RACI model for patch management: who owns OS, firmware, network gear and cloud VMs, who approves downtime, and how handoffs…
Setting Vulnerability Remediation SLAs That Teams Can Meet
How to build a vulnerability remediation SLA around real team capacity and asset exposure, with a sample matrix, clock rules, and honest…
Subdomain Takeover: How Dangling DNS Records Get Hijacked
How dangling CNAME, NS, MX and TXT records lead to subdomain takeover, the detection signals to check, and the correct cleanup order…
PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement 11.3: Internal vs ASV External Scans
How PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement 11.3 splits internal scanning from ASV external scanning: cadence, passing definitions, scope, evidence, and common ASV failures.
SAST, DAST and SCA: What Each Scanner Type Can See
SAST reads source code, DAST attacks the running app, and SCA reads dependency manifests. What each class actually proves, and where each…
Disabling NTLM: Audit First, Then Enforce Domain-Wide
How to disable NTLM domain-wide: enable 8001-8004 auditing, build the exception inventory, apply interim controls, then stage Restrict NTLM enforcement.
Why CVSS Severity Alone Is a Broken Patch Priority List
CVSS scores technical severity, not real-world risk. See why Critical-heavy queues mislead patch teams and what should replace severity as the sort…
False Positive Rate: The Metric Behind Analyst Burnout
How to define, measure, and report false positive rate in a vulnerability program, plus the feedback loops that actually reduce analyst burnout.
Auditing Over-Permissioned IAM Roles Before They Get Abused
Over-permissioned IAM roles hide behind PassRole chains and unused wildcards. Audit with last-accessed data, Access Analyzer, and lock down with SCPs.
Evidence-Based Validation: Proving a Finding Is Exploitable
What counts as proof a vulnerability is real: service response, config value, package state, file hash, and safe probes, plus when destructive…