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Miami, United States, 28th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

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Creators, Authors and Presenters: Danny Lazarev, Erez Harush

Our deep appreciation to Security BSides - San Francisco and the Creators, Authors and Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF 2025 video content on YouTube. Originating from the conference’s events held at the lauded CityView / AMC Metreon - certainly a venue like no other; and via the organization's YouTube channel.

Additionally, the organization is welcoming volunteers for the BSidesSF Volunteer Force, as well as their Program Team & Operations roles. See their succinct BSidesSF 'Work With Us' page, in which, the appropriate information is to be had!

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FireMon Insights deckt Firewall-Richtlinienrisiken auf und bietet Maßnahmenempfehlungen Das Firewall-Management ist der stille Held (oder der geheime Schurke) der Netzwerksicherheit. Zwar hängt sein Abwehrkonzept zum Großteil an Ihrer Firewall, jedoch...

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New York AG Letitia James has sued Zelle’s parent, Early Warning Services, over billions lost to fraud, spotlighting the urgent need for stronger safeguards, consumer protections, and risk quantification in real-time payments.

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Palo Alto, California, 28th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

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Check out highlights from the IDC white paper “Bridging Cloud Security and Exposure Management for Unified Risk Reduction,” which explains how CNAPPs help security teams tame the complexity of multi-cloud environments by shifting from a reactive, alert-driven model to a proactive exposure management strategy.

Organizations’ rapid expansion into the cloud has created a complex and thorny security landscape that often throws security teams into a counterproductive reactive cycle. As they breathlessly chase myriad alerts from a patchwork of fragmented tools, they struggle to piece together a coherent picture of their ever-expanding attack surface. This lack of visibility leads to a constant struggle to prioritize the most critical cyber threats.

If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. Traditional security models fall short when you need to manage security across dynamic, multi-cloud environments. The good news? There's a better way forward: Leveraging an integrated cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) that is is part of an exposure management strategy.

A new white paper from industry analyst firm IDC, sponsored by Tenable and titled “Bridging Cloud Security and Exposure Management for Unified Risk Reduction,” sheds light on how CNAPPs offer a transformative approach to cloud security. 

“In this environment, cloud security can no longer be an isolated function. CNAPP represents a critical evolution in the enterprise security strategy — enabling teams to secure every layer of the cloud stack while unifying visibility, accelerating response, and reducing risk at scale,” the IDC white paper reads.

In this blog, we’ll outline key insights from the white paper, including why a CNAPP-centric strategy that incorporates exposure management has become essential for combating increasingly sophisticated and aggressive cyber attacks.

The CNAPP solution: Unifying your defenses

CNAPPs are a game-changer. As the IDC white paper explains, a CNAPP unifies multiple security disciplines into a single, integrated platform. Think of it as your central command center for cloud security, bringing together capabilities that include:

• Identifying and remediating misconfigurations (cloud security posture management, or CSPM)
• Protecting your virtual machines, containers, and serverless environments (cloud workload protection, or CWP)
• Managing identities and permissions (cloud infrastructure entitlement management or CIEM)
• Safeguarding your cloud data (data security posture management, or DSPM)
• Securing your cloud AI systems (artificial intelligence security posture management, or AI-SPM)
• Protecting your Kubernetes environments (Kubernetes security posture management, or KSPM)
• Managing your vulnerabilities from code to cloud, including infrastructure-as-code scanning

By breaking down the silos between these different security functions, a CNAPP provides a holistic view of your entire cloud estate, IDC explains. It allows you to see the connections between different types of risks, such as how a misconfiguration in one area could be exploited by an over-privileged identity to gain access to sensitive data. This contextual understanding is crucial for moving from a reactive to a proactive security posture.

These features, combined with a focus on exposure management, are what separate a truly effective CNAPP from a basic one. “Decision makers are encouraged to explore CNAPP solutions that integrate effectively with exposure management platforms, offering unified visibility and facilitating prioritized risk mitigation,” the IDC white paper reads.

At Tenable, we define exposure management as a strategic, business-centric approach to cybersecurity that you can use to proactively assess and remediate your most critical cyber risks. In our view, exposure management transcends traditional vulnerability management by unifying business and risk contexts with threat intelligence. That way, it helps you expose, prioritize and close vulnerabilities while reducing risk and shrinking your attack surface.

In fact, as the IDC chart below shows, CNAPPs and exposure management are very much on the radar of security managers looking for emerging technologies and solutions to improve their organizations’ security capabilities.
 

(n = 600; Source: IDC’s AP Security Survey, 2024. Notes: This is an IDC Syndicated Survey. Respondents were professionals who are managers and above.)

Your path to a robust cloud security posture

The message from the IDC white paper is clear: a CNAPP-centric approach is the future of cloud security. A CNAPP does more than just consolidate tools: It fundamentally enhances how you manage risk in the cloud. A CNAPP empowers your cybersecurity teams with the visibility, context and actionable insights they need to stay ahead of attackers.

“A cloud- and environment-agnostic CNAPP strategy – and particularly one that incorporates exposure management – facilitates seamless integration across platforms, empowering organizations to maintain control, optimize resource utilization, and fortify their security posture,” the IDC white paper reads.

CISOs also benefit, as their role evolves and security priorities shift towards automation, end-to-end visibility and real-time threat management. 

“Exposure management inclusive of cloud security aligns with these priorities by providing contextual risk insights into potential security gaps and facilitating timely interventions,” the IDC white paper reads.

Get all the details

The full IDC white paper goes into much greater detail on all of these topics, and more. It offers:

• a comprehensive look at the current cloud security landscape;
• a deep dive into the capabilities of a modern CNAPP; and
• a guide to what you should look for in a solution. 

It also provides an in-depth look at Tenable's approach to cloud security, highlighting how our Tenable Cloud Security CNAPP integrates with our Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. 

According to IDC, the combination of Tenable Cloud Security and Tenable One “eliminates blind spots across cloud and hybrid environments.” 

“This integration enables stakeholders to understand and mitigate cloud risks within the context of their broader IT and cloud landscape,” the IDC white paper reads.

The journey to cloud security maturity is challenging, but you can succeed by adopting a CNAPP-centric approach that integrates exposure management.

Don't let the complexity of the cloud leave you vulnerable. To get the full picture and start building your roadmap to a more secure cloud, download the IDC white paper “Bridging Cloud Security and Exposure Management for Unified Risk Reduction.”

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Cybersecurity models are structured frameworks that educational institutions reference to contain and mitigate cyberthreats. These models range in scope, from basic confidentiality guidelines to full-scale, multi-layered frameworks. Most are sector-agnostic — very few apply to K-12 schools specifically. That’s why ManagedMethods produced a cybersecurity model specifically for K-12 schools. Read on to understand its core ...

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API security has never been more crucial. Vulnerabilities are growing in volume and severity. AI integrations are a burgeoning attack vector. Increasing GraphQL adoption presents hidden dangers. To protect your organization, you must secure your APIs.  Keep reading for our key takeaways from the Wallarm Q2 2025 API ThreatStats report – and find out what [...]

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Aug 28, 2025 - Lina Romero - APIs have become the most targeted attack surface in enterprise environments, and AI (particularly agentic AI) is making it even harder to protect those critical connections. But one of the most often overlooked and misunderstood aspects of a strong AI and API security posture is logging.Last week, FireTail CEO Jeremy Snyder sat down with John Tobin of Virtual Guardian to discuss the issue in depth, using John’s extensive experience with API logging as a jumping off point. John Tobin has an extensive API security and management background and now heads product and service innovation for the Virtual Guardian.Drawing from his years of helping companies reduce risk and prevent breaches, John shared meaningful insights, case studies where logging both did and could have prevented breaches, and a breakdown of the 5 W’s of audit logging:What: request details, identifiers, and identity typeWhen: timestamp of when the request occurredWhere: IP address, site landed on, and downstream detailsWhy: details about the response and what went wrongWho: identity details and additional informationJeremy layered in his knowledge of AI security, explaining the complications introduced by agentic AI and how to build on knowledge of API security and apply it to AI as well, unifying logging into a single detection workflow for full observability into an organization’s landscape. Watch their full discussion below for more details:Key takeaways from the webinar include:What to log at the API layer for optimal securityLessons from the frontlines of API loggingHow to identify AI-generated traffic on APIsWhat patterns signal potential threatsWhere AI and API observability convergeFrom logging to action: steps you can take today We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again- documentation is king. Without logging, you can’t observe or understand your cyber environment and if you can’t see it, you can’t secure it. Don’t be like the organizations in John’s counter-examples. Act today!FireTail is a great tool for giving you full, centralized audit logs and the observability you need to take control of your AI and API logging. Book a demo now...

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Get a firsthand look at how 400 security and IT leaders are tackling today’s cyber risk challenges in this latest study from Tenable and Enterprise Strategy Group.

From budget allocation and prioritization methods to team structure, organizations are fundamentally rethinking how they manage cyber risk.

Why? Because threats, exposures and assets are multiplying at a pace that traditional methods simply can't match, leaving organizations exposed to growing risk.

Tenable partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group on a new research study, “The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management,” to uncover the real-world challenges security teams face in reducing cyber risk in the modern era.

This study surveyed 400 IT and cybersecurity leaders across North America to uncover the biggest challenges, and the most promising opportunities, in today's threat and exposure management landscape.

The bottom line: The old playbook no longer works. It's time to shift from reactive, siloed efforts to a more unified, proactive approach that delivers real, measurable risk reduction.

According to the report, “Organizations are seeking threat and exposure management tools that enhance their prioritization and risk reduction capabilities through automated remediation and deeper analysis. What matters most to security teams is fixing the most important issues first and doing it as quickly as possible at scale.”

“Organizations are seeking threat and exposure management tools that enhance their prioritization and risk reduction capabilities through automated remediation and deeper analysis. What matters most to security teams is fixing the most important issues first and doing it as quickly as possible at scale.”

— The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management, Enterprise Strategy Group, August 2025

Key findings Cyber risk reduction is harder than ever

Nearly three-quarters of organizations (71%) say reducing risk is as hard or harder than it was two years ago, driven by cloud complexity (45%), manual processes (40%) and disconnected tools (40%).

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, Research Report, The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management, July 2025 Crucial context is overlooked

Nearly half of organizations still rely on basic exploitability (26%) and severity scores (21%), neglecting business context and asset-specific data, which leads to inefficient prioritization and higher risk exposure.
 

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, Research Report, The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management, July 2025 Organizations are moving beyond simply 'showing issues'

Organizations are shifting their focus from simply finding weaknesses to effectively remediating them. Success is now measured by incidents prevented (59%), vulnerabilities eliminated (55%) and reduction in total risk (51%), demanding platforms that drive effective risk reduction.

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, Research Report, The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management, July 2025 Exposure management budgets are growing

Organizations recognize the growing difficulty of risk reduction and are allocating more budget to tackle the challenge head-on. The vast majority of organizations (88%) are increasing their exposure management budgets year over year, with 59% noting a slight increase and 29% reporting significant increases.

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, Research Report, The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management, July 2025 Organizational silos create friction

Organizational silos create significant friction, with 27% of respondents citing the use of different tools by different teams as the primary challenge to effective collaboration. Responsibility for exposure management is often fragmented, falling to the general IT operations team (76%) more often than a dedicated vulnerability or exposure management team (41%).

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, Research Report, The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management, July 2025 Get the full story

Download “The Evolution of Risk Reduction: Contextual Analysis and Automated Remediation in Threat and Exposure Management” for a deeper look at the challenges your peers are facing, and the future vision they’re building as they move from siloed, manual processes to a unified, automated exposure management program.

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The FBI has released new findings on a long-running cyber campaign that quietly infiltrated major U.S. telecommunications providers and critical infrastructure around the world. The campaign, carried out by a group of hackers linked to the Chinese government, is known as Salt Typhoon. According to federal officials, the operation has been active since at least […]

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Cybersecurity breaches often stem not from advanced exploits but from human error, misconfigurations, and routine mistakes. True resilience comes from designing systems that expect failure, leverage automation wisely, and foster a security-first culture through simulations, guardrails, and psychological safety.

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Common Mark Certificates (CMC) and Verified Mark Certificates (VMC) both enable brand logos in email inboxes via BIMI, boosting trust, security, and deliverability. The key difference? VMCs require trademark validation and show a blue checkmark in Gmail, while CMCs are faster and more affordable but have limited support. Learn which option fits your email security and branding goals.

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Budget cuts at CISA highlight the urgent need for businesses to strengthen internal cybersecurity strategies. From mapping hybrid networks to embedding a security-first culture, organizations must proactively close the gap between chaos and control to stay resilient against evolving threats and compliance challenges.

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A report from intelligence agencies in the U.S., UK, and elsewhere outlined how three Chinese tech firms are supply China's intelligence services with products and services that are being used in global campaigns by the state-sponsored APT group Salt Typhoon.

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Why is Secrets Management a Strategic Imperative? Why are global businesses increasingly focusing on secrets management? Intricate digital and growing cyber threats have led to an urgent need for better security protocols. And secrets management is one of the vital components of a robust cybersecurity strategy. It involves securing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their access […]

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The process of de-identifying test databases can be approached in a variety of ways, and we’re often asked how our approach differs as compared to others. In this article, we’ll explore how our approach differs from that of “Data Product Platform” K2View, since we’ve discovered that we’ve built our technologies in two very, very different ways. Read on to learn which approach will work best for you.

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Creators, Authors and Presenters: Rohit Bansal, Zach Pritchard

Our deep appreciation to Security BSides - San Francisco and the Creators, Authors and Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF 2025 video content on YouTube. Originating from the conference’s events held at the lauded CityView / AMC Metreon - certainly a venue like no other; and via the organization's YouTube channel.

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GPT-5’s arrival on the scene adds an important new dimension to the landscape, so we have updated our analysis to include it.

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AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by Warlock ransomware, which emerged in June 2025. Beginning in July, Warlock operators have primarily targeted internet-exposed, unpatched on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers, exploiting a set of recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, specifically CVE-2025-49704, CVE-2025-49706, CVE-2025-53770, and CVE-2025-53771, collectively referred to as the "ToolShell" exploit chain.

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