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06/25/2026

This is according to new research from resilience specialists IO, which claims that 87% of senior cybersecurity managers in the UK believe the speed at which certification is achieved affects its credibility.

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blog/87-of-cybersecurity-managers-say-quick-compliance-programs-are-actually-increasing-risk-and-making-businesses-less-resilient/

Speed-focused compliance programs could help businesses get cybersecurity certifications quicker, but security professionals are skeptical if the speed comes at the expense of actual business resilience. This is according to new research from resilience specialists IO, which claims that 87% of senio...

06/17/2026

Risk management as a discipline is evolving rapidly, growing from a perfunctorily performed activity to a critical enterprise-wide requirement.

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blogs/what-is-a-risk-management-framework-rmf-and-its-components/

What is a Risk Management Framework (RMF) ? A risk management framework is a structured approach that helps organizations systematically identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor risks. It ensures consistency in managing uncertainties, aligning risk strategies with business objectives, and maintaining...

06/15/2026

For attackers, weak or poorly managed onboarding credentials can provide an easy route into corporate systems.

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blog/the-onboarding-password-mistake-that-creates-unnecessary-risk/

Employee onboarding is a busy time for IT teams. New starters need devices, accounts, access permissions, and passwords, all delivered within a tight timeframe. That usually means sharing a temporary “first-day” password so employees can access systems for the first time. The issue is that these...

06/04/2026

It makes cybersecurity a mandatory product feature, requiring manufacturers to implement “security by design” and maintain robust update and vulnerability management processes throughout a product’s lifecycle.

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blog/the-eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra-what-you-need-to-know-and-do-now/

The Cyber Resilience Act1 (“CRA”) is the first EU-wide regulation mandating minimum cybersecurity standards for all connected products sold on the internal market. It makes cybersecurity a mandatory product feature, requiring manufacturers to implement “security by design” and maintain robus...

06/01/2026

Today, cybersecurity is no longer just about stopping threats. It is about maintaining operations, recovering quickly, and reducing the overall impact when incidents occur.

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blogs/cyber-resilience-why-recovery-is-becoming-more-important-than-prevention/

Organizations invested heavily in firewalls, antivirus solutions, intrusion detection systems, and other security technologies to block hackers from accessing their network. However, the digital landscape has evolved dramatically.

05/27/2026

Massive IT budgets and enterprise-level software isn’t always necessary. With the right approach, small organizations can build strong cybersecurity on a budget.

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blogs/cybersecurity-on-a-budget-a-small-business-survival-guide/

Cybersecurity on a Budget: A Small Business Survival Guide Introduction Running a small business is hard enough without worrying about hackers. But here’s the reality: 43% of cyberattacks target small businesses and many never recover. Despite high awareness, most small businesses still believe th...

05/25/2026

" Project Glasswing is a defensive effort launched by the artificial intelligence (AI) company to secure critical global software infrastructure."

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blog/claude-mythos-ai-finds-10000-high-severity-flaws-in-widely-used-software/

Anthropic on Friday disclosed that Project Glasswing has helped uncover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across some of the most “systemically” important software across the world since the cybersecurity initiative went live last month. Project Glasswing is a defensive...

05/11/2026

"The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai/privacy-filter), including copying the entire description verbatim to trick unsuspecting users into downloading it."

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blog/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1-on-hugging-face-draws-244k-downloads/

A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform’s trending list by impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users. The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpar...

05/07/2026

AI powered cybersecurity can monitor, analyze, detect, and respond to cyber threats in real time. As AI algorithms analyze massive amounts of data to detect patterns that are indicative of a cyber threat, it can also scan the entire network for weaknesses to prevent common kinds of cyber attacks.

05/05/2026

“The three men agreed to pay the ALPHV BlackCat administrators a 20% share of any ransoms received in exchange for access to the ransomware and ALPHV/BlackCat’s extortion platform,” the DoJ said.

https://www.tsfactory.com/forums/blog/two-cybersecurity-professionals-get-4-year-sentences-in-blackcat-ransomware-attacks/