Necessity is the mother of invention. Plato’s concept rang especially true during the dot-com boom of the late ’90s and early 2000s when businesses first rushed to establish their digital presence but quickly realized they needed help managing the IT infrastructure behind it. Out of that need, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) were born. As technology…

The Shadowserver Foundation is sounding a security alarm bell over a significant surge in botnet-driven brute force attacks targeting edge devices. Since January 2025, researchers have seen over 2.8 million unique IP addresses per day launching credential-stuffing attempts against VPNs, firewalls, and network gateways from vendors like Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti, and SonicWall. More than…

Increasingly, organizations are relying on multi-cloud environments. According to Fortinet’s 2025 State of Cloud Security Report, 78% of businesses now work with two or more cloud providers and 54% use hybrid models. Multi-cloud strategies offer significant benefits, such as greater flexibility and cost optimization, yet they also introduce significant security complexities. To understand the security…

In the 2nd part to our previous post, which reviewed the limitations of traditional Security Operations Centers (SOCs), the rise of AI-powered SOCs, and their key components, we’ll cover the practical impact of AI-driven SOCs and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions. By integrating multiple AI and machine learning (ML) models, these forward-thinking solutions bolster…

Steam engines, electricity, airplanes, the Internet – what do these things have in common? Each invention was born out of a necessity to address some of humanity’s most tedious activities and pressing challenges. This cycle of creation has never stopped, and each time society faces an unprecedented problem, innovators rise to the occasion and develop…

In December 2020, one headline dominated cybersecurity news: SolarWinds had been the target of a massive cyberattack. The story began over a year earlier (September 2019) when state-sponsored Russian hackers gained unauthorized access to SolarWinds’ network and inserted malicious code into SolarWinds’ Orion software. In February 2020, SolarWinds released the infected software as an update,…