Security teams rarely grow in a straight line. One quarter you’re a one-person army juggling tickets, alerts, and patch cycles… and suddenly you’ve got three new hires, a bigger attack surface, and a backlog of findings older than your interns. Scaling a VM program isn’t about hiring
It’s a scene every security team knows too well — dashboards glowing red, tickets piling up, and every CVE screaming critical. You patch, re-patch, and somehow still fall behind. The truth? Not everything marked “critical” is actually critical. And that’s where most teams don't understand. What the
What is rate-limiting? Well, Rate limiting is a process of limiting requests received by the networking device. It is used to control network traffic. Suppose a web server allows up to 20 requests per minute. If you try to send more than 20 requests, an error will be triggered. A
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It stars as a normal day. The ops lead had meetings, the coffee was lukewarm, and the ticket queue kept growing. “We’ll take it next week,” someone said. Next week became next month. Then, the breach call came. That’s the story repeated across industries: a small operational delay,
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Log4j is a logging framework for Java applications. It is a popular choice for developers looking for a simple and flexible logging solution. However, in the past Log4j has been found to be vulnerable to a number of security threats. The log4j library has recently been found to contain a
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Every security team knows CVSS. It’s the standard baseline. Find a vulnerability. Check its CVSS score. Prioritize the ones with “critical” or “high.” Patch. Move on. But in 2025, relying only on CVSS is like navigating with an old map. The terrain has shifted. Attackers don’t just exploit
It usually begins the same way. A security team runs its routine scan late on a Friday evening ; servers humming, endpoints quietly reporting in. By Monday morning, the dashboard lights up like a Christmas tree. Hundreds of “critical” vulnerabilities. Some new, some still lingering from last month. The team sighs.
Imagine this: your company just finished a pentest. The report lands in your inbox, and it’s packed with Critical and High severity issues. The board is alarmed, your leadership team is nervous, and your security engineers are already drowning in Jira tickets. But as your team digs deeper, you
The Story We All Know It usually starts the same way: your company brings in a pentesting team, they spend weeks scanning, testing, and documenting. At the end, you get a heavy PDF report dropped in your inbox, dozens, maybe hundreds of findings. Some critical, some low, but all staring
Introduction: A Pentester’s Dilemma I’ve seen the same story play out again and again. An organization undergoes multiple security assessments web app tests, cloud audits, Android assessments, continuous vulnerability scans etc. Each assessment produces a report, but when is it time to act? The reports are scattered across
The Human Side of Security Overload Every security team has felt the endless cycle of vulnerability scans, audit reports, and compliance PDFs piling up in inboxes. Pages upon pages of findings that never quite connect to what actually matters: protecting people, systems, and the trust that holds businesses together. This
The Importance of Effective Vulnerability Management In today’s interconnected digital landscape, the importance of effective vulnerability management cannot be overstated. As organizations embrace advanced technologies to drive innovation and efficiency, they also open themselves up to a myriad of potential security risks. Vulnerabilities, whether arising from software flaws, misconfigurations,