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Your developers didn't get hacked. Your supply chain  did and the attacker never touched your network. Here's what happened:  The Shai-Hulud npm campaign compromised over 600 packages across two major waves by hijacking trusted developer accounts and publishing poisoned updates to legitimate dependencies. The malicious code ran automatically during routine installation before security tools could react. Once executed, it steals credentials from developer machines and build sy

Influence without authority isn't leadership. It's lobbying. And when a breach hits at 2 AM, you can't lobby a compromised system back to safety. Yet across cybersecurity, a dangerous myth persists: that CISOs should focus on influence over authority, on persuasion over mandate. It sounds progressive. It's actually a trap that leaves cyber leaders exposed, accountable without power, and responsible without resources. Here's the truth that needs saying: what many cyber leaders

The security company that protects 85% of the Fortune 500 just admitted nation-state hackers stole their blueprints. Here's what that means for your business. What Happened: The Cliff Notes Version Imagine hiring a security company to protect your building, only to discover burglars broke into the security company and stole the master key designs, alarm codes, and floor plans for their office, and potentially for every client they protect. That's essentially what happened to

For decades, organizations have relegated cybersecurity to the IT department. A technical function managed in the background while CIOs...

On September 5, 2025, cybersecurity researchers uncovered GhostAction. A sophisticated campaign that exploited GitHub, the world's...

Translating the CISO Mindmap 2025 Threat Detection capabilities into executive strategy Why the fastest companies to spot digital threats...

When MGM's systems went dark for ten days in September 2023, the company didn't just lose $100 million in revenue. It exposed a...

The first in a series translating Rafeeq Rehman's CISO Mind Map 2025 into executive decision-making frameworks An Expensive Communication...

The CISO at a mid-sized company stands before her company's board of directors. She's about to deliver what she believes is the most...

What Happened: The Industrialization of Cyber crime The landscape shifted overnight.  Ransomware isn't a hacker-in-a-hoodie problem...

By INP² | Bridging Cybersecurity and Executive Strategy Picture this: Federal cybersecurity experts spend days hunting through your...

Bottom Line Up Front: According to Verizon's 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, https://www.verizon.com/about/news/2025-data-breach-...

"Good enough" cybersecurity typically sounds like this: "What do we need to do to pass this year's audit?" "Do we have to update those...

Chinese hackers are exploiting a critical SharePoint vulnerability to steal cryptographic keys that provide permanent backdoor access...

Last August, a non-executive employee at Orion S.A., a global chemicals manufacturer, received what appeared to be routine payment...

CEO's, COO's, and VP's, don't lose jobs over server configurations. They lose jobs over business disruptions that could have been...

682 IP addresses are hunting for your MOVEit systems right now. If you're running this file-sharing software, you have approximately 2-4...

"Cybersecurity isn't just a technical failure. It's a communication failure." That's not a hot take. That's the diagnosis at the heart of...

A financial services client managing $2.8 billion in assets believed their system was protected. Their team had a 95% pass rate on...

Information Needs Processing and Protecting The $4.88 Million Communication Gap The average cost of a data breach in 2024 is $4.88...