Information Security
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“`html Executive Summary The week of February 9, 2026 presents an elevated threat posture driven by a convergence of nation-state activity, critical infrastructure targeting, and aggressively exploited vulnerabilities across widely deployed enterprise products. The most urgent threats requiring immediate action are CVE-2026-22719 (VMware Aria Operations RCE, CISA KEV deadline March 24), dual CVSS 10.0 vulnerabilities […]
Table of Contents TJS Weekly Security Intelligence Briefing – Week of Feb 16th 1. Executive Summary 2. Critical Action Items 3. Key Security Stories Story 1: Ivanti EPMM Zero-Days Under Mass Exploitation – European Government Agencies Compromised Story 2: Microsoft February 2026 Patch Tuesday – Six Actively Exploited Zero-Days Story 3: BeyondTrust Pre-Auth RCE – […]
Table of Contents Weekly Security Intelligence Briefing TJS Weekly Security Intelligence Briefing – Week of Feb 2nd 2026 1. Executive Summary 2. Critical Action Items 3. Key Security Stories Story 1: Notepad++ Supply Chain Attack – Chinese APT Delivered Chrysalis Backdoor for 6 Months Story 2: WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 – Four Nation-State Groups Exploiting Path Traversal […]
Ransomware Defense Playbook 28 Ransomware Defense Actions for Windows, Linux & Cloud Ransomware is projected to hit a target every 2 seconds by 2031. When it lands, you are staring at weeks of downtime and recovery costs that run into the millions. These 28 actions are what actually moves the needle, grounded in CIS Controls […]
What is Identity and Access Management? Identity and Access Management (IAM) sits at the heart of modern cybersecurity strategies and business operations. But what exactly is IAM, and why is it so vital? At its core, IAM is the framework of policies, technologies, and processes that ensure the right people (or systems) have access to […]
The Thing That Keeps You up at Night It’s 2:47 AM, and the first signs of trouble start to surface. Unusual network traffic begins streaming from your financial database server, but no one is there to catch the alerts. At this moment, a sophisticated ransomware attack is quietly taking hold of your organization’s network. What […]
Introduction A data breach doesn’t care if you’re a startup or a Fortune 100. Over the past decade, I’ve seen teams scramble to contain ransomware at midnight, and others calmly execute playbooks as if rehearsed for Broadway. What sets these worlds apart often boils down to one thing: Are your incident response (IR) efforts aligned […]