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What we're seeing in the field—and what to do about it.

Software Security for Startups

Your startup should care about cybersecurity, but only sort of.

Simplify Your Life with a Password Manager

A little learning curve puts you ahead of so many and makes life easier

Pragmatic Steps to Get CMMC Level 1 Compliant

Get started securing your business as a federal subcontractor with meme driven guidance.

It's Getting Harder to Recognize Scams

Generative AI lowers the barrier for scammers to create believable texts, emails, voices, images, and even video. Just like any new technology, this will be an arms race of offense and defense.

A Physical Site Security Audit Checklist You Can Actually Use

This audit checklist is designed to guide you through a thorough review of your site’s security based on leading standards from organizations like ASIS International, ISO, NFPA, and BOMA. Let’s break it down into actionable steps, making sure you can spot weak spots and implement fixes without drowning in paperwork.

Manufacturing Visible Victories When Your Job Is Preventing Invisible Disasters

Create a quarterly cadence of security victories that make you, your team, and your program visible to the business.

January 19, 2026

From Checkbox to Competitive Advantage: Positioning Your Security Posture Externally

Position your security mandates to give you competitive advantage. It's work you have to do anyways - make it count.

January 19, 2026

The Code Word You Don't Have Yet

How voice cloning scams work at the office and at home - and what stops them

January 19, 2026

Pre-Mortem Pen Tests: Use Security Assessments to Accelerate

Strategic leaders get penetration tests to win. It enables fundraising. It de-risks acquisitions. It validates launches. It closes deals.

January 19, 2026

When Should You NOT Red Team?

Red team assessments are expensive and valuable—when done at the right time. Here's when you're better off spending that budget elsewhere.

January 19, 2026

What Even Is (Cyber) Risk Management?

Risk management sounds like MBA theater, but it's actually the only way to spend security budget rationally. A no-jargon guide for executives who want to understand what their security team is actually doing.

January 19, 2026

What DORA Means for Mid-Market Financial Services: A Framework

DORA regulation impacts EU mid-market firms and their ICT vendors. Understand compliance scope, implementation costs, and strategic priorities.

January 19, 2026

What Controls Actually Impact Attacker Dwell Time?

Everyone talks about reducing dwell time, but which controls actually make a difference? A research-backed look at what works—and what conventional wisdom gets wrong.

January 19, 2026

The Achilles Heel of Cybersecurity: Unsecured Credentials

Credentials are still the primary attack vector, and it's not even close. Here's the data on how attackers actually exploit credentials—and why password managers alone won't save you.

January 19, 2026

The Adversis Approach to Building a Cybersecurity Program

Skip the maturity model theater. Here's how to build a security program that actually protects your business—starting with what matters, not what looks good on a slide deck.

January 19, 2026

Solving the Unsecured Credentials Problem

You understand the credential problem. Now here's the implementation roadmap—specific tools, processes, and phased approach to actually fixing credential security at your organization.

January 19, 2026

SaaS Procurement Security Standard

A tiered framework for evaluating SaaS vendor security during procurement—including requirements by risk level, questionnaire guidance, and how to avoid security theater.

January 19, 2026

Red Teaming for the 99% Who Can't Afford One

A real red team costs six figures. Most organizations can't justify that. Here are the alternatives that deliver similar value at a fraction of the cost.

January 19, 2026

MFA and Passkeys for the Maturing IT Team

You know you need MFA. Here's how to actually roll it out—including legacy system headaches, user adoption strategies, and whether passkeys are ready for your organization.

January 19, 2026

Impact-Driven Cybersecurity Benchmarks

Most security metrics measure activity, not impact. Here's how to build benchmarks that tie to business outcomes—and convince executives that security actually matters.

January 19, 2026

Implementing Cybersecurity Policies and Procedures

Policies that sit in a folder gathering digital dust help nobody. Here's how to build security documentation that people actually follow—plus a framework for what you actually need.

January 19, 2026

How to Safely Add AI to Your Current Application

Adding AI features to your app? Here's the security checklist developers need—covering prompt injection, data handling, API security, and the pitfalls that create real vulnerabilities.

January 19, 2026

How to Intelligently Monitor for Attacker Recon and Anomalous Behavior

Your SIEM generates noise. Build detection that catches actual attackers.

January 19, 2026

How to Buy Cybersecurity Services

Cybersecurity vendors sell fear. Here's how to cut through the pitch, ask the right questions, and buy services that actually improve your security posture.

January 19, 2026

How to Fire Your IT Vendor

Ending a vendor relationship creates security risk. Here's how to terminate IT vendors safely—covering access revocation, knowledge transfer, and the transition security checklist.

January 19, 2026

How to Hire Your First Security Resource

Your startup needs security, but who do you actually hire? A practical guide to finding your first security person—what to look for, what to avoid, and why the generalist vs specialist debate misses the point.

January 19, 2026

How Will You Secure Data Sharing with Research Partners?

Research collaboration requires data sharing. Security requirements often conflict with the openness research demands.

January 19, 2026

How to Enable Faster B2B Sales Through Security Transparency

Security questionnaires slow sales. Proactive transparency accelerates them.

January 19, 2026

How Are Your SaaS Connections Secured and Monitored?

Most SaaS organizations don't know what's connected, who authorized it, or what data flows where. Here's how to audit and secure your SaaS ecosystem.

January 19, 2026

GenAI-Powered Phishing and Vishing: What's Actually Changed

AI-generated phishing is real, but the threat is more nuanced than headlines suggest. Here's what's different, what's overhyped, and how to defend against it.

January 19, 2026

An RSC Parser Because React Thought Wire Protocols Were Fun

A Burp extension for when your response tab looks like spaghetti (React's Flight protocol)

January 19, 2026

Add Email Spoofing Checks to Your Nuclei Scans

New Nuclei template integrates email spoofing checks into reconnaissance workflows.

January 19, 2026

The MCP Security Tool You Probably Need - MCP Snitch

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly emerged as the standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and services.

January 19, 2026

Pentesting Next.js Server Actions

Adversis releases a Burp Extension for NextJS Hash-to-Function Mapping

January 19, 2026

Privilege Escalation With Jupyter From the Command Line

A recent penetration test led to an interesting way to escalate privileges on a Jupyter instance running as root.

January 19, 2026

Living off Node.js Addons

Swap out compiled Node.js addons with your own code and force a legitimate Electron application load your code

January 19, 2026

CyberPrices.io: Cybersecurity Cost Transparency

CyberPrices.io - our latest innovation designed to bring transparency to cybersecurity pricing

January 19, 2026

Tailscale Security - A Threat-Based Hardening Guide for Growing Companies

A threat analysis and compliance mapping guide for Tailscale deployments. Check out tailsnitch to audit your setup

January 16, 2026

Meeting NIST 800-63B Password Requirements with ASP.NET Core Identity

Get compliant with NIST Identity guidelines to protect your end users and meet your client's demands

January 19, 2026

Strategic CISO: Timing Your Security Assessment for Executive Impact

Whether you’re presenting to your board, executive leadership team, or quarterly business review, transform your penetration testing from a compliance checkbox to your strategic advantage.

January 16, 2026

Strategic CISO: Before the Test — When Your Startup is Really Ready for Penetration Testing

Whether you actually need a security assessment and when you should get one isn't so clear cut.

January 16, 2026

Your VPN Without MFA is Rhysida's Front Door

Strategies that Work to Defend Aviation and Healthcare Against Rhysida Ransomware

January 19, 2026

Your MFA Isn't Protecting You: Inside the EvilProxy Campaigns Draining Bank Accounts

How financially-motivated cybercriminals are using EvilProxy to bypass your two-factor authentication, hijack CFO accounts.

January 19, 2026

Blind Enumeration of gRPC Services

When you're handed an SDK with no documentation and told "the backend is secure because it's proprietary," grpc-scan helps prove otherwise

January 19, 2026

Unpatched Edge Devices are Volt Typhoon's Persistence Point

Strategies to Defend Utilities and Critical Infrastructure Against Volt Typhoon

January 19, 2026

An In Depth (and Actionable) Guide to Cybersecurity Table Tops

Incident response tabletop exercises are crucial for preparing your organization to handle cyber incidents.

January 19, 2026

The Compliance Trap

Does that SOC 2 report actually mean anything? Go beyond compliance with systems thinking.

January 16, 2026

How to Write a Hashcat Module

Cracking 389 Directory Server password hashes automatically with the password cracker Hashchat

January 19, 2026

Security Advisory: Chamber of Commerce Software API Vulnerabilities

Major Chamber of Commerce software platforms have API security gaps exposing member data.

January 19, 2026

Rental Car Vendor's Security Flaw Exposed Damage Claims Reports

Legitimate emails with bad practices and an insecure website add insult to injury.

January 19, 2026

Lessons Learned From a Year of SMB Cybersecurity Assessments

Gaps, assumptions, and missing cyber controls continue to plague SMBs

January 19, 2026

A Fast Track Guide to Losing Money and Data in Business

How Businesses Get Hacked: A mordant 3-step guide on how to lose money and information.

January 19, 2026

Awareness Alone Is Dumb: How to Make Cybersecurity Habits Stick

How to Make Cybersecurity Habits Stick When Awareness Isn’t Enough. Mantras don't count.

January 19, 2026

Cyber Security Study of Northwest Montana

Disclaimer: All research and information presented in this document were obtained solely from publicly available sources, and no actions were performed on any systems or networks to gather this data.

January 19, 2026

A Safe and Sound Shopify Shop

So you've opened a Shopify store. That's great news! Chances are, you're making something really special and we're excited to help make you and your customers experience secure.

January 19, 2026

Your SSN Isn't a Secret

Your Social Security Number is not supposed to be sensitive. Unfortunately platforms and online systems use it to verify your identity.

January 28, 2026

The (Un)Surprising Wi-Fi Password Mistake Thousands are Making

Adversis estimates that 10% of networks in the region are using a password with a 406 area code and phone number. Is your Wi-Fi password your phone number?

January 19, 2026

The (Un)Surprising Wi-Fi Password Mistake Thousands are Making

Adversis estimates that 10% of networks in the region are using a password with a 406 area code and phone number. Is your Wi-Fi password your phone number?

January 16, 2026

Your Documents, ShareFile'd

Adversis did some brief public research on Citrix ShareFile websites and found over 9,000 customer subdomains, over half of which have links accessible to anyone who can identify them. It’s possible your company is among them.

January 19, 2026

ForeScout Secure Connector Local Privilege Escalation

A local privilege escalation in a security tool, who would have imagined..

January 19, 2026

A BigCommerce Security Primer

BigCommerce is an eCommerce platform that quite a few large brands use. Let's take a look at how to make sure our BigCommerce store is configured securely.

January 19, 2026

Unraveling the Secrets of Montana's Internet

Montana. Known for its ruggedness. But how secure are we?

January 19, 2026

Pandora's Box: Another New Way to Leak All Your Sensitive Data

Yes, the cloud is still leaking data. This time, we can't blame the SRE team though, everyone has been sharing files publicly, yes, even you probably.

January 19, 2026

A Clean Pen Test Report Can Still Disqualify You

Enterprise buyers don't necessarily want a clean bill of health. They want proof you handle problems well.

January 30, 2026

AIUC-1 Compliance Navigator

A free reference tool for navigating the AIUC-1 AI Risk Management Framework

January 19, 2026

A Password Manager Guide for Work

Simple guidance for your co-workers on how to actually use a password manager, and why.

January 19, 2026

Sample Web App Penetration Test Report

See how we translate technical findings into actionable business insights—explore a penetration testing report with prioritized remediation guidance.

January 30, 2026

Policies, Procedures, and Playbooks

The terms 'Policies,' 'Procedures,' and 'Playbooks' are often used to establish guidelines and standard practices. They're related but serve different purposes. Here's how they work and interact.

January 19, 2026

How to Safeguard Taxpayer Data and Comply with IRS Publication 4557

Take simple, common sense steps to keep your business and client information safe.

January 19, 2026

A Physical Site Security Audit Checklist You Can Actually Use

This audit checklist is designed to guide you through a thorough review of your site’s security based on leading standards from organizations like ASIS International, ISO, NFPA, and BOMA. Let’s break it down into actionable steps, making sure you can spot weak spots and implement fixes without drowning in paperwork.

January 19, 2026

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