Thinking on cybersecurity, compliance, and managed defence - from the CyberCheck team.
Cloud detection and response tools, commonly abbreviated CDR, have emerged as a distinct cloud security category. Organizations evaluating these tools alongside existing cloud security posture management and workload protection tools often lack clarity on exactly what additional capability CDR provides. Why CDR Addresses a Distinct Security Need From CSPM and CWPP Cloud security posture management … Read more
Purple teaming brings offensive red team and defensive blue team security professionals together into direct, real-time collaboration, instead of leaving them to operate in isolation from each other. It has emerged as a valuable evolution beyond traditional red team engagements, which operate largely separately from the defensive teams they are testing. Why Traditional Red Team … Read more
Organizations pursuing SOC 2 compliance encounter both Type I and Type II report options. Many organizations new to SOC 2 do not fully understand the meaningful difference between the two – a distinction that matters considerably for choosing the right compliance path and setting realistic customer expectations. What a SOC 2 Type I Report Covers … Read more
Threat modeling, the systematic practice of identifying potential security threats to a system before building or deploying it, often feels intimidating to smaller teams without dedicated security expertise, yet a practical, simplified threat modeling approach remains valuable and achievable even for teams without extensive formal security training. Why Small Teams Skip Threat Modeling Despite Its … Read more
SOC 2 audits have a reputation for triggering genuine, last-minute organizational panic – weeks of scrambling to gather evidence, retroactively document policies that technically already existed but were never written down anywhere, and generally treating the audit as a fire drill rather than a predictable, manageable process. It does not have to work that way, … Read more