Technical depth on vulnerability management, AI-powered remediation, and TRIS™ scoring. Written by practitioners, for practitioners.
A CVSS 9.8 pre-authentication RCE in the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Updates Environment Management component (PSEMHUB) was exploited as a zero-day by ShinyHunters (UNC6240) from May 27 through June 9, 2026. Oracle shipped an out-of-band Security Alert on June 10. ShinyHunters claims 100 plus breached organizations across 300 vulnerable internet-facing instances, with 40 GB of student and billing data confirmed stolen from the University of Nottingham.
A CVSS 9.3 certificate validation logic error in Check Point Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access gateways lets unauthenticated attackers establish a VPN session without a valid password. Exploited in the wild since May 7, 2026, with at least one Qilin ransomware affiliate intrusion already confirmed.
Field notes from the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. Under the agentic-AI hype, every serious conversation circled back to one word: resiliency. The identity shift to exposure management, the tools getting it right, and why defenders should build it.
Cisco's June 5 advisory cisco-sa-sdwan-privesc-4uxFrdzx confirms in-the-wild exploitation of a CVSS 7.8 privilege escalation in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that lets a netadmin operator reach root on the controller. No fix exists today, and the bug chains off two earlier 2026 netadmin disclosures.
On June 1, 2026 the Miasma variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm rode Red Hat's own GitHub Actions OIDC trust to republish 96 versions of 32 official @redhat-cloud-services packages, sweeping AWS, GCP, Azure, npm, and CI credentials at install time.
An authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect lets unauthenticated attackers forge override cookies and claim internal VPN IP addresses. Active exploitation. CISA KEV deadline June 1.
A threat actor tracked as TeamPCP pushed 5,718 malicious commits into 5,561 GitHub repositories in six hours, injecting backdoored Actions workflows to steal CI/CD secrets. No CVE. Named in a CISA advisory.
A malicious Nx Console VS Code extension (nrwl.angular-console v18.95.0) lived 18 minutes, silently auto-updated to roughly 6,000 developers, and led to the breach of about 3,800 GitHub internal repos. CVE-2026-48027. Confirmed exploitation.
A cross-ecosystem credential stealer planted 34 packages and 384+ versions across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, poisoning AI assistant config files to exfiltrate wallet keys, SSH keys, and cloud credentials. No CVE. Confirmed active.
AI expanded the build and dependency surface faster than security maturity could follow. Why context engineering and exposure-driven prioritization replace the patch-everything treadmill.
Attackers rewrote 502 git tags across four Composer packages to execute a credential stealer on every composer install. No CVE. Confirmed exploitation.
CVSS tells you severity. EPSS predicts exploitation. Cloud engines score in someone else's building. TRIS v2 runs on your hardware across twelve layers, five of them brand new. Your data never leaves your network.
Everything you need to build a Continuous Threat Exposure Management program, stage by stage. All 5 Gartner CTEM stages. Integration patterns. Tool selection. Metrics. Pitfalls. A framework you can actually follow.
Master the art of building effective SIEM detection rules that reduce alert fatigue and catch real threats. Sigma rules, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and practical examples.
How a regional MSSP managing 180 SMB clients eliminated per-asset pricing, cut false positives by 76%, and recovered margins with CVEasy AI.
Thirty minutes from a cold install to knowing your real exposure. A practitioner walkthrough of importing a scan, reading the Command Center, triaging findings, and prioritizing fixes by TRIS.
CVSS tells you how bad a vulnerability could be in theory. TRIS tells you what to do about it today. How to read the score, the action bands, and the Sprint Board, with a Log4Shell example.
A timeboxed walk through the full loop. Get data in, read your risk, triage, prioritize by TRIS, fix, and prove it, in one sitting. Run it weekly and exposure stops being a fire drill.
CVSS vs EPSS vs SSVC vs KEV vs TRIS™ , what each framework measures, what it misses, and how to layer them for composite scoring.
What BAS is, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, automated vs manual testing, ROI measurement, and the open-source BASzy™ AI option.
RBAC misconfigs, container image scanning, admission controllers, network policies, etcd security, and a hardening checklist.
OWASP API Top 10, BOLA/BFLA testing, authentication bypass, rate limiting, GraphQL security, and building an API testing program.
Security champions, PR scanning, automated dependency updates, security debt tracking, and metrics that prove DevSecOps maturity.
How VM fits into ZTA: micro-segmentation, continuous verification, device posture scoring, and a phased implementation roadmap.
Multi-tenant scanning, client reporting, SLA management, pricing models, and scaling from 10 to 100 clients profitably.
SCADA systems, the Purdue model, air-gapped scanning, ICS-CERT advisories, and compensating controls for systems that cannot be patched.
NTIA minimum elements, CycloneDX vs SPDX, and how to operationalize SBOMs as the missing layer in your VM program.
SAST, DAST, and SCA pipeline integration patterns, false positive management, and gate policies that developers will actually follow.
External attack surface discovery, asset inventory automation, continuous monitoring, and risk-based prioritization for the assets you didn't know you had.
OWASP LLM Top 10, jailbreak testing, prompt injection detection, guardrail bypass, and agent security testing with BASzy™ AI.
Right-sizing VM for small teams: the complete low-cost toolchain, minimum viable program, and SOC 2 compliance on a startup budget.
CSPM vs traditional VM, cloud-native vulnerability classes your scanner misses, and how to unify both in one prioritization pipeline.
Automated patching workflows, AI-generated fix guidance, SLA tracking with escalation, and the metrics that prove remediation velocity.
Board-level metrics, FAIR risk quantification, executive dashboards, and the 5-slide framework that gets security budgets approved.
I wasn't trying to start a company. I was tired of watching CVSS 6.5 vulnerabilities get skipped while teams chased 9.8s that nobody exploited.
A direct comparison of Rapid7 InsightVM and SentinelOne Singularity VM, and why the price gap no longer makes sense in 2026.
The 5 stages of CTEM, how EPSS+KEV+asset criticality map to each stage, and an implementation roadmap by org size.
Map CVEs to ATT&CK techniques. Score vulnerabilities by detection coverage. Patch what attackers actually exploit.
CC7.1 explained: scan frequency, SLA documentation, evidence collection, and the gap between Vanta/Drata automation and human auditor scrutiny.
Layer inheritance, SBOM generation with Syft and Grype, Cosign image signing, and automation with Dependabot and Renovate.
Coverage gaps, enrichment delays post-2024, ecosystem strengths, and how to build a multi-source aggregation pipeline.
RA-5 control requirements, mandatory CVSS-based SLA tiers, POA&M documentation, ConMon reports, and CSP vs 3PAO responsibilities.
OTX, MISP, Shodan, GreyNoise, KEV, EPSS, how to correlate feeds, map IOCs to CVEs, weight sources, and set alert thresholds.
The 5-stage pipeline, Ansible playbooks, Kubernetes rolling updates, canary deployments, rollback triggers, and SLA tracking automation.
The data sovereignty and privacy case for running vulnerability AI on your own infrastructure.
How correlated intelligence cuts signal-to-noise ratio and surfaces the vulnerabilities that are actually on fire.
The predictive framework for patching the vulnerabilities ransomware actors exploit most, before they get there.
A deep dive into the three-layer scoring model that replaces CVSS-only prioritization.
Understanding the exploit lifecycle and how to reduce your exposure before CVEs are even published.
A repeatable 5-step workflow for turning Microsoft's monthly release into a ranked, defensible patch order in under two hours.
A practitioner's guide to the four pillars of VM: asset discovery, assessment, prioritization, and remediation.
BOD 22-01 created a mandatory patch timeline for federal agencies, and a best-practice model for everyone else.
MTTR is easy to game and hard to act on. Here are five metrics that actually drive security outcomes.
Traditional scanners struggle with supply chain vulnerabilities. Here's why, and what to do about it.
CVSS measures severity. EPSS predicts exploitability. TRIS v2 combines 12 layers, including attack-path, supply-chain, defense efficacy, and FAIR-based financial impact, for the complete picture.
From Cobalt Strike to BASzy AI. Manual red teaming vs automated BAS, why you need both.
Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Wiz, CrowdStrike and more, side-by-side with pricing and deployment.
No per-asset pricing. No cloud dependency. TRIS v2 12-layer scoring vs the industry incumbent.
Predictable pricing, data sovereignty, and built-in attack simulation for MSSPs.
Air-gapped, local-first, zero cloud. The definitive guide for restricted environments.
Per-asset pricing creates perverse incentives that make organizations less secure. Here's the math, and a better model.
Turn vulnerability scan results into audit evidence. How to align your VM program with the controls that actually get tested.
A practical framework for translating scanner output into reports that drive decisions instead of confusion.
A Nessus XML export is a raw data dump. Here's how to cross-reference with EPSS/KEV and produce a ranked remediation queue.
Why SaaS VM tools fail in classified networks, and how to run a full VM program with zero internet connectivity.
A 7-tier SLA framework built on EPSS and KEV, not CVSS, with escalation paths that IT will actually follow.
KEV, EPSS, NVD, MITRE ATT&CK, ISACs, what each feed tells you, what it doesn't, and how to avoid feed overload.
CVSS was designed to score severity in isolation. But "severity" without context creates noise, not signal. Here's how correlated intelligence changes everything.