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Back to Basics: Why Checkbox Compliance Isn’t Enough

Compliance doesn’t protect you. It simply outlines the defenses that should have been in place. And when you’re not compliant, the gap often only comes to light after something’s gone wrong. In today’s evolving threat landscape, passing an audit isn’t enough. Security leaders need continuous visibility, actionable insights, and real-world accountability, long before an auditor ever shows up. It’s...
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August 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship ASPL-1169 as soon as coverage is completed.
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File Integrity Monitoring in 2025: More Than Just a Tripwire

It’s been over a decade that I’ve worked primarily in the world of File Integrity Monitoring and Secure Configuration Management, helping to ensure that hundreds of different companies are able to detect unauthorized or unexpected changes to their configurations.Security has changed a lot over that period, and yet there’s been some surprisingly consistent experiences in the field that I will often...
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Compliance Breakdowns: Making Sure They Only Happen Once

Cross-functional alignment is one of the most effective tools a CIO has for maintaining compliance in a fragmented regulatory environment. However, while many understand that disparate teams working together is “what it’s all about,” many CIOs may not yet realize that it’s their responsibility to take point for the process.Or, that a successful compliance outlook doesn’t mean perfection – it means...
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Fortra Patch Priority Index for May 2025

Fortra's May 2025 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Google.Up first on the list are patches for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) and Google Chromium that resolve 6 issues including spoofing, out of bounds memory access, insufficient data validation, inappropriate implementation, use after free, and heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities.Next on the...
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Prescription For Disaster: Sensitive Patient Data Leaked in Ascension Breach

Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare companies in the United States, has confirmed that the personal data of some 437,329 patients has been exposed following an attack by cybercriminals. To the undoubted distress of Ascension's client base, the details of hundreds of thousands have fallen into the hands of hackers, opening up opportunities for fraud and identity theft. Breached...
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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for February 2025

Tripwire's February 2025 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft.Up first on the list are patches for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolve 4 remote code execution and 2 spoofing vulnerabilities.Next on the list are patches for Microsoft Office and Excel. These patches resolve 8 issues such as remote code execution and information disclosure...
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VERT Threat Alert: January 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s January 2025 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1139 as soon as coverage is completed.In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEsCVE-2025-21333The first of three Hyper-V vulnerabilities this month is a heap-based buffer overflow that leads to privilege escalation to SYSTEM. Microsoft has reported this...
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Highlights from Release Day 2025.1

Fortra’s 2025.1 Release Day includes improvements to email security, managed file transfer, data classification, security awareness training, and more.
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The Challenge of Securing Bluetooth Technology in Healthcare

It’s the age-old question: when does convenience undermine security? In the healthcare sector, the answer can literally spell the difference between life and death. As the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) grows, wireless attacks abound. While not any harder to launch than against traditional IoT devices, these attacks are drastically more high-stakes and can use the Bluetooth and related...
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BeSTORM Release 13.2

BLE, CANBUS Enhancements, new protocols in beSTORMBeSTORM 13.2 launches a few highly requested enhancements along with several protocol additions. These additions will help expand the implementation of black box fuzzing during application development. International compliance regulations are beginning to require fuzz testing security certification within testing labs on telecommunication and...
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Create Chaos to Engineer Security Testing

What is Chaos Testing?Application chaos testing does its best to counteract Murphy’s Law, where anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.Chaos testing and engineering is a proactive test methodology that identifies system errors prone to misuse before they can cause damage and security concerns for an application. This style of testing was developed and made...
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Guardians of the Digital Realm: How Managed Security Services Keep Your Business Safe

In the world of cybersecurity, it's not just about keeping the bad guys out — it’s about staying one step ahead of their next move. The managed security services team at Fortra is dedicated to working with you to understand your organization’s unique security challenges and provide solutions to keep you protected against even the most sophisticated global threats. Get ready to exceed your expectations and fortify your environment like never before with Fortra.
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Preparing for the Impact of PCI DSS 4.0

Stealing credit card data is a perennial favorite of cybercriminals everywhere, whose aggressive tactics to score sensitive accountholder details result in breach after breach for organizations small and large. In its most recent research on payment card fraud, The Nilson Report found $28.6 billion in losses for 2020 (nearly 36% in the U.S. alone),...
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Why Is Black Box Fuzzing Important in Key Industries?

Black Box Fuzzers Black box fuzzers attack code vulnerabilities the same way a real-world cybercriminal would so you can find code weaknesses before they are exploited. A form of dynamic application security testing (DAST), this tool attacks from outside the application code, using a wide range of malformed or partial code data injections to find unexpected code input errors. This can uncover...
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Application Security Tips for PCI-DSS 4.0

PCI-DSS has long been the standard for securing payment card-related information. Meeting this bar was the bare minimum requirement for showing that an organization had sufficient controls to keep this data secure. With changes to PCI-DSS already being released and required by 2024, organizations developing and running applications to collect or process payment card-related data need to get...
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Automotive Industries Article

By 2024, it’s predicted there’ll be more than 400 million connected vehicles in use around the world. In Automotive Industries magazine, Aviram Jenik discusses the implications for cybersecurity and looks at how rigorous testing and standard protocols can elevate the safety of these fast-evolving vehicles. Originally published in Automotive Industries. Excerpt:“Industry regulators are meeting the...