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The Crowded Battle: Key Insights from the 2025 State of Pentesting Report
In the newly released 2025 State of Pentesting Report, Pentera surveyed 500 CISOs from global enterprises to understand the strategies, tactics, and t...
Scaling Security Validation for the Enterprise: The Vision Behind Pentera 7
Seeing Pentera set a new standard for Enterprise-scale security validation with the launch of Pentera 7 brings me a great deal of satisfaction as a fu...
Kubernetes Annotation Security Risks in AWS
Misconfiguring just one word in Kubernetes can expose your AWS environment to the internet, putting your data and applications at serious risk. Kubern...
Security Research Techniques: Build Before You Break
I've been in security research for quite a while now, so I've had more than a few opportunities to guide researchers during their security research en...
Pentera API Security Automation: Advanced Cybersecurity Use Cases
If you’re looking for ways to automate and streamline your security validation operations, the Pentera API is a powerful tool to have in your arsenal....
Security Validation ROI: Justifying Cyber Investments
In a recent feature on The Hacker News, Shawn Baird, Associate Director of Offensive Security & Red Teaming at DTCC, shared how he successfully co...
CVE-2024-47176 – Linux Privilege Escalation via CUPS Vulnerability
What is CVE-2024-47176? A Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE ID: CVE-2024-47176
Description: A privilege escalation vulnerability in the...
Deciphering the Risks of AWS SSM in Hybrid Environments
Introduction
Hybrid cloud environments are becoming the backbone of enterprise IT infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability and flexibilit...
Ransomware Insider Threats: Understanding the Growing Danger
Understanding the Risks of Ransomware Insider Threats
The trope of the burglar comparison in cybersecurity is more than overused. But when we talk ...
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From Compliance to Confidence: Achieving CMMC 2.0 Certification
For many contractors, navigating the complexities of CMMC compliance presents significant challenges. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (...
Continuous Ransomware Validation: Why Annual Testing Is No Longer Enough
Ransomware isn’t just a security issue; it’s a business problem that’s grown too big to ignore. What started as floppy-disk attacks back in the 1980s ...
What is BAS 2.0 and Why You Need It
In a fast-evolving threat landscape, traditional Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) tools are limited. Built based on predefined scenarios, they’re gr...
How to Prioritize Vulnerabilities Effectively
There are patches or remediations for all the top vulnerabilities, but they’re still being exploited in the wild. How is that? Well, if you were the a...
How DTCC Upgraded their SOC into a Cyber Threat Fusion Center
By Shawn Baird, Associate Director, Offensive Security and Tactics, DTCC
Based on a session given at PenteraCon 2024
When the speed and complexity...
Forti-fied? Logging blind spot revealed in FortiClient VPN
Virtual private networks (VPNs) have become widely used by enterprises for secure remote network access to protect sensitive data. This critical role ...
What’s Behind the Rising Costs of Data Breaches?
Data breaches are more costly than ever, averaging USD 4.88 million in 2024—a 10% rise. This spike is largely due to increased expenses related to los...
Two New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Uncovered in FortiClient VPN
Introduction
Our latest research from Pentera Labs uncovers high-severity Fortinet vulnerability CVE-2024-47574, exposing risks in FortiClient's use ...
APT Attacks: The Sith Lords of the Cyber World
Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are like the Sith Lords of the cyber world—stealthy, relentless, and always lurking in the shadows. Mentioning them...