Monday 8/24
How to Spot and Stop Rogue Device Joins (Wiz)
Once a rogue device is successfully registered, attackers typically move on to the objectives that matter most, accessing Microsoft 365 resources, exfiltrating emails, maintaining persistence or expanding their foothold within the tenant.
https://www.wiz.io/blog/detecting-entra-device-registration-abuse
No Phishing Email Required: How Attackers Compromise the IT Helpdesk (Abnormal AI)
As attackers continue to refine their tactics, the helpdesk doesn't need more manual scrutiny. It needs a system that can differentiate a locked-out employee from a sophisticated and well-researched impersonator before the call even connects.
https://abnormal.ai/blog/helpdesk-compromise
Tuesday 8/25
CIS Safeguard 13.4: Perform Traffic Filtering Between Network Segments
https://www.gothamtg.com/blog/cis-safeguard-134-perform-traffic-filtering-between-network-segments
Wednesday 8/26
Choosing the right AI platform is not where IT leaders should focus, explains Gotham CTO Ken Phelan in his latest article, "It's Not the Model." Instead, they should focus on building the capacity to identify, prioritize, and break the combinations of lower-severity vulnerabilities that frontier AI models can chain into serious breach paths.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498421816885923841
Thursday 8/27
The Line Between Defense and Offense Just Moved. Here’s What Comes Next. (Arctic Wolf)
Regardless of how cyber disruption efforts evolve, organizations still need strong cyber resilience, effective security operations, rapid detection and response capabilities, and trusted security guidance. For most organizations, the fundamentals of cybersecurity remain unchanged.
https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/the-line-between-defense-and-offense-just-moved-heres-what-comes-next/
Advance Zero Trust for AI: New tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps (Microsoft)
AI is reshaping how organizations build, deploy, operate, and defend digital systems. AI-powered development tools, agents, and autonomous workflows are accelerating innovation but they are also introducing new attack surfaces, new trust boundaries, and new security challenges.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/08/04/advance-zero-trust-for-ai-new-tools-and-guidance-to-secure-ai-agents-and-devsecops/
Friday 8/28
Your Backups, Encrypted Before They Ever Leave for the Cloud (Rubrik)
For teams that want control in their own hands, the better model is to encrypt the data before it ever leaves for the storage, with keys you control. That's exactly what client-side encryption delivers.
https://www.rubrik.com/blog/technology/26/8/your-backups-encrypted-before-they-ever-leave-for-the-cloud
The Vulnerability Tax: What CVE Response Costs at the Network Edge (Cato Networks)
High availability doesn’t eliminate maintenance. IT still has to upgrade nodes, validate failover, confirm application behavior, and be ready to roll back if something goes wrong. The more appliances and software versions in the environment, the more often teams have to make those changes.
https://www.catonetworks.com/blog/what-cve-response-costs-at-the-network-edge/