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In 2026, identity has firmly established itself as the new security perimeter. As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, enable remote workforces, and integrate SaaS and third-party ecosystems, attackers are no longer trying to “break in”; they are simply logging in. Compromised identities now sit at the center of most advanced breaches, making Identity Threat Detection & […]
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Outages Happen to Everyone. Building a Resilient Architecture Doesn’t Have to Be Hard.
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No company is spared the pain of outages. But their impact can be mitigated by how resilient you build your business architecture. And who you choose to partner with can significantly determine how effective that will be.
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No company is spared the pain of outages. But their impact can be mitigated by how resilient you build your business architecture. And who you choose to partner with can significantly determine how effective that will be.
Outages Happen: But Not EquallyThe biggest and the best fall victim to outages and downtime. Publicly available information from sites like StatusGator.com reveals the number of incidents attributed to several major cloud security service providers, with high incidents reported as outages.
Within a 30-day period spanning this past October and November, Imperva reported:
By comparison, other cloud security service providers reported:
While no one is exempt from outages, the way provider architecture is designed can really bolster or detract from resilience.
Regulations Like DORA Now Require ResilienceOperational resiliency is no longer a pie-in-the-sky security ideal as we focus on more pressing issues. It is the pressing issue.
The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) was explicitly designed to improve the digital resilience of financial entities. To this end, it requires covered entities to perform regular digital operational resilience testing and adhere to strict guidelines, so they can “withstand, respond to, and recover from” operational disruptions like cyberattacks or system failures.
Examining the Impact of DowntimeEven a minute of unavailable services can cause startling damage to a company; when things pass the Maximum Tolerable Outage (MTO), it gets even worse.
An Oxford Economics study estimated that the cost of sixty seconds of downtime is at least $9,000. That’s not including the added costs of damage control as PR campaigns haemorrhage money trying to restore good standing.
Organizations need to know where to stop the bleeding, determining MTO for themselves. Hence, they understand the point at which the outage will cause an unacceptable level of damage financially, to stakeholders, or legally.
This can be evaluated by determining:
Understanding that outages, like breaches, are a matter of when, not if, means that planning takes on a practical aspect.
Run your teams through tabletop exercises to familiarize them with specific scenarios that may arise when systems go down. Start by examining the worst possible thing that could happen and start from there.
Finally, apart from the administration of the outage, which teams are responsible for getting key systems back online, and do they know how? Make sure they understand the emergency procedures to operate on in the interim, and keep a copy of your plan, emergency hierarchy, and call tree offline and in a place where everyone can access it. Do not assume an online copy will be available in a crisis.
Business Continuity Planning: It Takes the Right TeamJust like you interview carefully for the people who will keep the ship running, you also need to have the right experts in your corner when things start to sink. Revisiting the idea of the call tree, make sure you include technology partners like Thales when facing issues like these.
Thales helps teams proactively build resilient architectures that shift application and data security measures left, apply AI and behavioral detection to avoid attacks that lead to downtime, and develop formal Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is also a requirement of key compliance frameworks like NIST CSF and ISO 27001.
Choosing Your Provider – And Alternative Provider - WiselyLastly, have an alternative provider to fall back on in times of crisis. This second line of defense, just like the first, should be chosen wisely.
Some cloud security service providers have chosen to expand into cloud computing and edge services to compete with hyperscalers. While providing wider offerings, this complicates the architecture and operations required to stay resilient.
Others, like Imperva, have chosen to double down on quality and optimization, prioritizing maximum uptime by carefully managing things like availability and capacity.
Attacks and outages come with the territory. But with the right know-how, plan, and partners in place, they don’t have to have a long-term effect.
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The influence of Chinese money laundering networks has skyrocketed since 2020, with the operations now moving almost 20% of all illicit cryptocurrency being laundered last year, according to Chainalysis researchers. In 2025, they processed more than $16 billion, or about $44 million a day.
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Exposure monitoring has become a core function for security and risk teams but many programs still struggle to deliver clear, actionable outcomes. Alerts pile up, dashboards expand, and yet teams are often left with the same unanswered question: Which exposures actually matter right now? The difference between noise and signal in exposure monitoring often comes …
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Session 11B: Binary Analysis
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Hongwei Wu (Purdue University), Jianliang Wu (Simon Fraser University), Ruoyu Wu (Purdue University), Ayushi Sharma (Purdue University), Aravind Machiry (Purdue University), Antonio Bianchi (Purdue University)
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VeriBin: Adaptive Verification of Patches at the Binary Level
Vendors are often provided with updated versions of a piece of software, fixing known security issues. However, the inability to have any guarantee that the provided patched software does not break the functionality of its original version often hinders patch deployment. This issue is particularly severe when the patched software is only provided in its compiled binary form. In this case, manual analysis of the patch's source code is impossible, and existing automated patch analysis techniques, which rely on source code, are not applicable. Even when the source code is accessible, the necessity of binary-level patch verification is still crucial, as highlighted by the recent XZ Utils backdoor. To tackle this issue, we propose VeriBin, a system able to compare a binary with its patched version and determine whether the patch is ''Safe to Apply'', meaning it does not introduce any modification that could potentially break the functionality of the original binary. To achieve this goal, VeriBin checks functional equivalence between the original and patched binaries. In particular, VeriBin first uses symbolic execution to systematically identify patch-introduced modifications. Then, it checks if the detected patch-introduced modifications respect specific properties that guarantee they will not break the original binary's functionality. To work without source code, VeriBin's design solves several challenges related to the absence of semantic information (removed during the compilation process) about the analyzed code and the complexity of symbolically executing large functions precisely. Our evaluation of VeriBin on a dataset of 86 samples shows that it achieves an accuracy of 93.0% with no false positives, requiring only minimal analyst input. Additionally, we showcase how VeriBin can be used to detect the recently discovered XZ Utils backdoor.
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The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies.
Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.
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In a world where businesses are built on digital infrastructure, IT security has become a critical pillar of organizational resilience and trust. From cloud computing and remote workforces to SaaS applications and connected devices, modern IT environments are larger, more complex, and more exposed than ever before. At the same time, cyber threats are growing
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via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD
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Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) has become a foundational capability in today’s hyperconnected digital ecosystem, where cyber threats are no longer isolated or episodic. Modern adversaries leverage automation, advanced persistent tactics, ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), nation-state resources, and supply-chain exploitation to conduct continuous and highly adaptive attacks. This escalating volume, velocity, and sophistication of threats has elevated CTI
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DataDome blocked 16M+ bot requests from 3.9M IPs targeting a global sports organization's ticket sales. See how we stopped industrial-scale scalpers.
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The BreachForums marketplace has suffered a leak, exposing the identities of nearly 324,000 cybercriminals. This incident highlights a critical shift in cyberattacks, creating opportunities for law enforcement while demonstrating the risks associated with breaches in the cybercriminal ecosystem.
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