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…
Vishing is now an enterprise weapon: what a 442% surge means for your SOC
In February 2026, the New York Department of Financial Services issued a formal advisory to the CISOs of every regulated entity in the state, warning of an active campaign in which attackers spoof…
What a real third-party security assessment covers
Third-party involvement in confirmed data breaches doubled in a single year, from 15% to 30%, according to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report . The same report covers 12,195 confirmed…
AI-Augmented, Human-Led Pentesting: Our Position On The Future Of Offensive Security
AI-augmented, human-led penetration testing is a model in which autonomous tools handle reconnaissance, surface-level exploitation, and continuous validation at machine speed, while experienced human…