Security Insights

Vulnerability Management

Thinking on cybersecurity, compliance, and managed defence - from the CyberCheck team.

Attack Surface Management: Why You Cannot Secure What You Cannot See

Tabletop Exercises: Practicing Incident Response Before You Need It

Attack surface management, the ongoing discipline of identifying and monitoring every actual externally exposed system and service an organization operates, has become essential as organizations discover that their real attack surface is often considerably larger, and considerably less well understood, than security teams originally assumed. Why Organizations Underestimate Their Own Attack Surface Organizations accumulate externally … Read more

Building an Effective Bug Bounty Program

API Discovery: Why You Probably Have More APIs Than You Think

Bug bounty programs offer organizations access to a considerably broader pool of security researchers than any internal security team alone could realistically provide, but building an effective program requires more careful, deliberate thought than simply offering a reward and waiting for reports to start arriving. Why Bug Bounty Programs Complement Internal Security Testing Internal security … Read more

Building an Effective Vulnerability Management Program

Physical Penetration Testing: Why Digital Security Is Not Enough

Vulnerability management sounds conceptually straightforward – find vulnerabilities, fix them – but organizations consistently struggle to build effective programs at real scale, drowning in a sheer volume of scanner findings without a clear, defensible process for prioritizing which ones matter most and deserve real, prompt attention. Why Raw Vulnerability Counts Are Misleading A typical vulnerability … Read more