TechSpective’s Compliance and Risk section addresses the strategic and operational dimensions of managing cybersecurity risk in enterprise environments — where regulatory pressure, board accountability, and business continuity all converge.
Coverage treats compliance not as a checkbox exercise but as a lens for understanding organizational resilience. Articles examine why most companies are less cyber resilient than their budgets suggest, how CISOs can shift from reactive firefighting to forward-looking risk forecasting, and what it actually takes to achieve breach readiness through approaches like microsegmentation. Specific technical risks get detailed treatment as well, including agentic penetration testing, EchoSpoofing phishing campaigns exploiting email routing flaws, and the hidden costs of deprioritizing application security.
Broader risk management topics include catastrophe modeling for cyber insurance, how AI and digital twin technology are reshaping security posture assessment, and the expanding responsibilities of the modern CISO as a board-level strategic function. Vendor and platform coverage features Kroll, Trend Micro, ColorTokens, Hadrian, and others working at the intersection of risk quantification and operational security.
Contributors include Tony Bradley, a CISSP-ISSAP credentialed journalist and Air Force veteran, alongside security practitioners and subject matter experts. The audience is enterprise security leaders — CISOs, risk officers, compliance teams, and security architects — who need analysis that connects technical controls to business risk and regulatory reality.
Intel is a sponsor of TechSpective Organizations invest a lot of resources and effort to secure and protect their devices and IT environment, but there is growing concern over the parts that make up the equipment. The supply chain exposes […]
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As the world collectively deals with COVID-19, many organizations have enacted company-wide work from home policies to help slow the spread of the virus. For many organizations the sudden requirement to support home working en masse has exposed an uncomfortable
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Leaders are moving beyond business continuity, evaluating budget cuts and tighter spending controls to help weather the COVID-19 crisis and the economy’s certain tailspin. This month PwC released a survey revealing the financial measures top business leaders in the U.S.
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Intel is a sponsor of TechSpective Vulnerabilities are a fact of life. Organizations and developers strive to develop secure code, but the reality is that there is no such thing as perfect when it comes to either coding applications or
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These are unprecedented times. As countries around the world struggle to contain and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses of all sizes and across all industries find themselves suddenly trying to maintain business continuity with an entirely remote, work-from-home workforce.
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The rapid acceleration from on-location to remote workforce as part of the Coronavirus Pandemic response opened the door to malicious actors accelerating their phishing and social engineering attacks. Cybercriminals prey on user anxiety by embedding malicious files in COVID-19 themed
The rise in business processes supported by cloud services has been well evidenced by organizations using cloud services store confidential data in the cloud environment. But when using cloud services, organizations are still unsure whether to entrust cloud service providers
Head in the Clouds: Managing Security in a Multi-Cloud World Read More »
Companies don’t exist in a vacuum. Organizations of all sizes and across all industries rely on a complex web of connections and partnerships to get things done every day. The companies that organizations depend on—and the companies that those companies
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Qualys is a sponsor of TechSpective Vulnerabilities are a fact of life. There is no such thing as perfect security, but businesses should strive to make it as difficult as possible for attackers to succeed—and have tools and processes in
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Qualys is a sponsor of TechSpective Qualys announced today that it has partnered with Google to integrate the Qualys Cloud Agent with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google Cloud Platform customers can take advantage of Qualys security and compliance with
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