Web App Vulnerabilities Your Scanner and WAF Miss
The web application vulnerabilities scanners miss are rarely the ones a CVE feed will tell you about. They sit one layer above signatures, in the logic of how an application decides who is allowed to…
Active Directory Attack Paths Your Annual Pentest Misses
Most internal pentest engagements at mid-to-large enterprises follow an annual cadence. That cadence creates a structural gap: the active directory attack path annual pentest cycle leaves a 12-month…
CI/CD Secrets: The Cloud Attack Path Reviews Miss
A typical annual cloud security review captures the state of an environment on the day the engagement closes. Two weeks later, a developer adds a third-party integration, a CI/CD workflow gets a new…
External Pentest: What Attackers Find on Your Perimeter
On 14 May 2026, CISA added a CVSS 10.0 authentication bypass in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, with active exploitation already confirmed in the wild. That…
Mobile App Pentest: What It Actually Tests vs. Scanners
A mobile application pentest checklist is what most finance and fintech buyers ask for when their first PCI DSS or NIS2 audit forces the question. The list looks tidy on paper. What the engagement…
Cloud Security Assessment: What CSPM Misses on IAM Keys
Most organizations running on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud already have a CSPM tool flagging misconfigurations, plus the native security console of each provider sending alerts. The picture those…
How AI-assisted pentests work in practice
The question CTDefense gets most often from CISOs and IT directors right now is some version of the same one: the board has read the May 2026 coverage of AI-assisted intrusion, and they want to know…
The OWASP Foundation published its Top 10:2025 list in late 2025, drawing on more than 2.8 million applications and 175,000 CVE records — the largest dataset the project has ever assembled. For most…
What Dark Web Monitoring Actually Catches
Most ransomware intrusions today don’t start with a fresh exploit. They start with a credential that was already stolen, already in someone else’s hands, and already on sale. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026…
Why your EDR won’t catch the breach: the case for identity-aware detection
Endpoint detection and response was designed to catch malware on a workstation. It still does that job well. The problem is that most attackers are no longer dropping malware on workstations as the…