Security Insights
Deep dives, expert analysis, and practical guidance on exposure management, adversarial validation, and the future of AI-driven exposure management.
The Five Stages of Red Team Methodology
Red team methodology runs in five stages, recon, initial access, foothold and C2, lateral movement and privilege escalation, then actions on objective. Here is each stage with the ATT&CK techniques and the detections that should fire.
Exposure Assessment vs Adversarial Exposure Validation
Your security team just delivered another quarterly report. 847 vulnerabilities discovered. 23 rated critical. 156 high severity. CVSS scores assigned. Remediation priorities set. And yet, like last quarter, the backlog grows faster than your team can patch. Worse, you're left wondering: are we fixi
Red Team vs Blue Team: A CISO's Guide to Offensive Security
Red team vs blue team is the wrong question for a CISO. The right one is how fast the gap between what red gets away with and what blue catches is closing. Here is how to run both.
What Is a Red Team Assessment? (And How It Differs From Pentesting)
A red team assessment is a goal-based attack simulation that tests whether your SOC would catch a real adversary. Here is what one looks like end to end, with the detection gaps it exposes.
2025, The Year We Stopped Building Features and Started Building Outcomes
Let me be real with you. 2025 wasn't about launching a hundred features and patting ourselves on the back. It was about asking one uncomfortable question: Are we actually helping security teams reduce exposure, or are we just giving them another dashboard to stare at? The answer shaped everything we
Why Organizations Are Moving to CTEM
Security teams are facing exposure patterns that form and spread far faster than traditional assessment cycles can handle. A misconfigured cloud role created during an early-morning deployment can expose sensitive permissions before lunch. A forgotten internet-exposed asset can be scanned by automat
6 Ways CISOs Are Using AI to Prioritize Critical Vulnerabilities
Just like AI is transforming business operations, it’s revolutionizing how CISOs handle vulnerabilities. AI-powered vulnerability prioritization helps reduce alert noise, focus on high-risk issues, and automate remediation, enabling security teams to act faster, stay ahead of threats, and strengthen
Strobes New Feature: Full Control Over Risk-Based Prioritization
Every security team knows the struggle: You've got hundreds (or thousands) of vulnerabilities, limited resources, and the constant question – "What should we fix first?" CVSS scores? They're a start, but they don't know that your payment processing system is more critical than your internal wiki. Tr
Exposure Management vs Vulnerability Management - The Truth No One Tells You
Enterprises have poured time and resources into vulnerability management programs. Scanners sweep across networks and clouds, producing endless lists of issues to patch. On paper, this feels like control. In practice, teams are overwhelmed and attackers keep finding ways in. Vulnerability management
Pentesting vs PTaaS vs Automated Pentesting
Security testing today isn’t just about finding vulnerabilities, it’s about how fast you find them, how quickly you fix them, and how confidently you prove risk reduction. And that’s where most teams hit a wall. Pentesting vs PTaaS vs Automated Pentesting - three models that promise security assuran
How PTaaS Enhances Security Collaboration Between Security Teams and Developers
Picture a scenario: A critical vulnerability is discovered in a production application. The security team scrambles to assess the impact while developers, caught off-guard, rush to implement a fix. This all-too-common situation highlights the historical disconnect between security and development te
CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management) - The Ultimate Guide for CISOs
Cybersecurity defenses have evolved from firewalls to red teaming, yet breaches still make headlines. Why? Because piecemeal security strategies leave blind spots. This is where Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) changes the game. Instead of reacting after an attack, CTEM delivers ongoing