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Insights and analysis on human risk, cybersecurity strategy, compliance, and digital defense.

How Innovation Hubs Like TechPlace Accelerate Startup Growth

Burlington, Canada - September 28, 2025

Innovation hubs provide more than office space. They connect entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, and peers who accelerate their journey. This article highlights how TechPlace helps startups grow faster, and why community ecosystems are critical to modern tech success.

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Building a Cybersecure Co-Working Community: What Every Hub Must Do

Burlington, Canada - September 28, 2025

Shared work environments bring collaboration but also cyber risks. This article explains the key practices, from network segmentation to security awareness, that make hubs like TechPlace safe places for startups to build, scale, and share knowledge.

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From Local to Global: How Soft Landing Programs Help Tech Companies Expand

Burlington, Canada - September 28, 2025

Expanding into new markets is one of the biggest challenges for startups. This article explores how TechPlace's Soft Landing program enables international companies to enter Canada smoothly, and how community hubs bridge the gap between global ambition and local networks.

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From Desk to Data Room: Preparing Startups for Funding with Secure Practices

Burlington, Canada - September 28, 2025

Investors increasingly scrutinize cybersecurity maturity during fundraising. This article shows how startups in hubs like TechPlace can move from day-to-day operations at their desks to investor-ready due diligence, by embedding secure practices early.

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Scaling Startups Securely: Avoiding Common Security Debt Traps

Prague, Czech Republic - September 27, 2025

Startups move fast, but cutting corners on security creates hidden liabilities that surface during growth, audits, or investor due diligence. This article highlights the most common security debt traps, including weak IAM and neglected patching, and how leaders can avoid them while scaling.

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AI Adoption Without Risk: How to Secure AI-Powered Architectures

Prague, Czech Republic - September 27, 2025

AI adoption is surging in tech organizations, but unsecured pipelines, APIs, and model access expose companies to new risks. This article explains how to integrate AI safely into business-critical systems, with practical safeguards for both startups and enterprises.

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Cybersecurity as a Growth Enabler, Not a Cost Center

Prague, Czech Republic - September 27, 2025

Many executives still see security as a compliance burden rather than a driver of business value. This article shows how embedding cybersecurity into products and operations can accelerate customer trust, improve valuations, and unlock new markets.

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Cybersecurity Pitfalls to Avoid in Fundraising and Due Diligence

Prague, Czech Republic - September 27, 2025

Investors increasingly scrutinize cybersecurity posture during funding rounds. This article outlines the most common pitfalls founders face, from missing compliance frameworks to weak incident response planning, and how addressing them early strengthens both security and investor confidence.

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Why Incident Response Must Begin Before a Breach Occurs

Hyderabad, India - September 26, 2025

Many organizations only start thinking about incident response after an attack has already happened. This article explains why proactive planning is essential, how tabletop exercises and playbooks reduce damage, and how Res-Q-Rity and CypSec help businesses stay prepared.

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Ransomware Response: Best Practices for Containment and Recovery

Hyderabad, India - September 26, 2025

Ransomware continues to disrupt mid-sized and large enterprises worldwide. This article highlights the critical steps for containing infections, recovering safely, and avoiding common mistakes, with guidance from Res-Q-Rity's incident response experts and CypSec's automated defense tools.

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Communication Strategies During Incidents: Internal & External

Hyderabad, India - September 26, 2025

What you say during a security incident can determine both regulatory outcomes and customer trust. This article outlines best practices for coordinating communication, avoiding misinformation, and aligning technical response with executive messaging.

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Using Tabletop Exercises to Harden Incident Readiness

Hyderabad, India - September 26, 2025

Plans are only as good as the teams executing them. This article shows how simulated incident scenarios uncover blind spots, train staff under pressure, and strengthen security operations.

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Preparing for PCI DSS 4.0: What Organizations Need to Know

Belgrade, Serbia - September 25, 2025

The transition to PCI DSS 4.0 introduces new requirements for authentication, risk assessments, and continuous monitoring. This article explains what's changing, the most common challenges, and how Infosec Assessors Group and CypSec help organizations prepare effectively.

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ISO 27001 vs. ISO 27701: Integrating Security and Privacy Management

Belgrade, Serbia - September 25, 2025

Enterprises face overlapping demands for information security and privacy compliance. This article shows how aligning ISO 27001 with ISO 27701 creates a unified framework for managing both, and how Infosec Assessors Group and CypSec streamline implementation.

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How Social Engineering Tests Reveal the Weakest Links in Security

Belgrade, Serbia - September 25, 2025

Phishing, impersonation, and physical intrusion remain some of the most effective attack vectors. This article highlights how Infosec Assessors Group conducts social engineering tests, and how CypSec integrates findings into human risk management frameworks.

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Reducing Audit Fatigue: Automating Compliance Evidence Collection

Belgrade, Serbia - September 25, 2025

Many organizations struggle to keep up with recurring PCI DSS, ISO, and internal audits. This article explores how automation reduces audit fatigue, improves accuracy, and how Infosec Assessors Group and CypSec deliver streamlined compliance workflows.

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Why Phishing Simulations Should Be More Than One-Off Events

Stuttgart, Germany - September 24, 2025

Many companies run phishing simulations once a year to tick a compliance box. This article explains why continuous, adaptive simulations are critical for building real resilience, and how AWM AwareX and CypSec make them effective long-term.

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Identifying and Protecting Your “Very Attacked People”

Stuttgart, Germany - September 24, 2025

Some employees are targeted by attackers far more than others. This article shows how advanced analytics identify “Very Attacked People” and how combining AWM AwareX training with CypSec's risk governance protects the most vulnerable staff.

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Building a Sustainable Security Culture in SMEs

Stuttgart, Germany - September 24, 2025

Small and medium enterprises often lack dedicated security teams but face the same threats as large corporations. This article highlights how AWM AwareX and CypSec embed awareness, accountability, and resilience into everyday work culture.

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Email Protection and Awareness: The Dual Defense Against Phishing

Stuttgart, Germany - September 24, 2025

Technology alone cannot stop phishing, and training alone is not enough. This article explains how AWM AwareX's email protection tools and CypSec's security programs reinforce each other to block attacks and strengthen human defenses.

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Why Open Knowledge is Essential for Stronger Cybersecurity

Warsaw, Poland - September 23, 2025

Cybersecurity threats evolve faster than most organizations can keep up. This article explains why open knowledge platforms like Not The Hidden Wiki are critical for democratizing access to security insights, and how CypSec supports transparency and shared defense.

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Closing the Skills Gap Through Open Educational Resources

Warsaw, Poland - September 23, 2025

The global shortage of cybersecurity professionals continues to grow. This article explores how open educational resources empower students, small businesses, and underfunded teams to gain essential skills, and how CypSec and NTHW make this knowledge accessible.

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How Knowledge Sharing Disrupts the Cybercrime Economy

Warsaw, Poland - September 23, 2025

Attackers rely on secrecy, but defenders thrive on collaboration. This article shows how nonprofit knowledge-sharing initiatives weaken the cybercrime economy by spreading awareness, publishing countermeasures, and equipping organizations to resist common attacks.

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Cybersecurity Literacy as a Human Right

Warsaw, Poland - September 23, 2025

In a digital-first world, access to cybersecurity knowledge should not be a privilege. This article highlights why cybersecurity literacy is a human right, how NTHW advocates for free access, and how CypSec helps embed this principle into enterprise and government practice.

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How SOCaaS Protects Against Ransomware in Mid-Sized Businesses

Mississauga, Canada - September 22, 2025

Ransomware disproportionately affects mid-sized businesses that lack the resources of large enterprises but operate complex digital environments. This article explains how SOC-as-a-Service from CypSec and VerveDelight provides 24/7 monitoring, rapid detection, and automated response to stop ransomware before it spreads.

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SOCaaS vs. Traditional In-House SOC: Costs and Capabilities

Mississauga, Canada - September 22, 2025

Building an in-house SOC is expensive, resource-intensive, and difficult to scale. This article compares the costs and capabilities of traditional SOCs with SOCaaS, showing how CypSec and VerveDelight deliver enterprise-grade security operations to mid-sized companies at predictable costs.

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The Human Factor in SOCaaS: Analysts, Automation, and AI

Mississauga, Canada - September 22, 2025

Even in an age of AI and automation, human expertise remains critical to security operations. This article shows how VerveDelight and CypSec balance analyst insight with automation and AI, creating SOCaaS that combines speed, accuracy, and contextual awareness.

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Incident Response Acceleration Through SOC Automation

Mississauga, Canada - September 22, 2025

Manual response is too slow for today's cyberattacks. This article explores how automation within SOCaaS enables faster containment, reduces downtime, and ensures that businesses can respond to incidents in seconds rather than minutes.

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How to Build Secure Web Applications from Day One: Insights from Cothema & CypSec

Prague, Czech Republic - September 21, 2025

Most security problems are introduced early in development and remain hidden until exploited. This article shows how Cothema's custom application expertise and CypSec's security architecture combine to embed resilience into web applications from the start.

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Automating Security in E-Commerce Platforms: Protecting Payments and Customer Data

Prague, Czech Republic - September 21, 2025

E-commerce platforms face constant pressure to innovate while staying compliant with GDPR and PCI-DSS. This article explains how Cothema's automation solutions and CypSec's risk management tools create secure, streamlined online shopping experiences.

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Secure APIs for AI-Driven Applications: Avoiding the Most Common Pitfalls

Prague, Czech Republic - September 21, 2025

AI-enabled apps depend on APIs to connect services, but poorly secured APIs are among the top causes of data breaches. This article outlines how Cothema builds AI integrations and how CypSec ensures they are hardened against real-world attacks.

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Using Analytics and Reporting to Detect Security Breaches Before They Escalate

Prague, Czech Republic - September 21, 2025

Logs and analytics are usually seen as "just business tools". However, they are the foundation against cyber incidents. This article highlights how Cothema's reporting solutions and CypSec's monitoring capabilities help organizations detect anomalies before they become major breaches.

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Deterministic vs. Traditional Penetration Testing: What Changes in Risk Analysis

Hamilton, Canada - September 20, 2025

Traditional pentests rely on trial-and-error exploitation, producing inconsistent results. This article shows how SEAS and CypSec use deterministic modeling to replace guesswork with complete, provable risk analysis.

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Identifying Hidden Attack Paths with Deterministic Network Graphs

Hamilton, Canada - September 20, 2025

Attackers exploit paths that traditional pentests never find. This article explains how deterministic graph modeling reveals every possible route to critical assets, not just the ones testers stumble upon.

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Using Deterministic Testing to Validate Zero Trust Architectures

Hamilton, Canada - September 20, 2025

Zero Trust promises to block lateral movement, but few organizations verify it. This article shows how deterministic testing proves whether Zero Trust designs actually stop real attack paths.

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Reducing False Positives in Vulnerability Management Through Deterministic Testing

Hamilton, Canada - September 20, 2025

Vulnerability scanners flood teams with noise. This article shows how deterministic testing filters findings down to only the issues that create real attack paths, eliminating false positives and wasted effort.

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The Most Overlooked OWASP Top 10 Risks in 2025

Munich, Germany - September 19, 2025

Even organizations that invest heavily in web security still miss some of the most critical OWASP Top 10 risks. This article examines the vulnerabilities that Rasotec's penetration testers continue to exploit in 2025 and why they often evade automated scanners.

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Why Patch Management Alone Won't Stop Internal Threats

Munich, Germany - September 19, 2025

Fully patched systems can still be compromised from the inside. This article explains how Rasotec's internal pentests uncover privilege abuse, credential reuse, and misconfigurations that bypass patch-based defenses.

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How DNS and TLS Misconfigurations Undermine Your Security Perimeter

Munich, Germany - September 19, 2025

Subtle DNS and TLS misconfigurations often provide attackers with silent entry points. This article shows how Rasotec identifies and exploits these flaws to reveal weaknesses in perimeter security.

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How 3-Tier Applications Introduce Hidden Lateral Movement Paths

Munich, Germany - September 19, 2025

3-tier architectures promise isolation but often enable attacker pivoting. This article outlines how Rasotec's pentests expose hidden trust paths between tiers that allow lateral movement into critical systems.

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Secure Communications for Embassies: Lessons from ASGAARD

Hamm, Germany - September 18, 2025

Diplomatic missions operate under constant surveillance risk. This article shows how combining ASGAARD's protective presence with CypSec's encrypted communication platform can safeguard sensitive embassy communications against interception and compromise.

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Protecting Critical Assets in High-Risk Government Operations

Hamm, Germany - September 18, 2025

Governments often deploy critical equipment and data into unstable regions. This article explains how ASGAARD's field security and CypSec's risk management platform can work together to protect these high-value assets from theft, sabotage, and insider threats.

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Human Risk Management in Defense and Diplomatic Projects

Hamm, Germany - September 18, 2025

Personnel integrity is critical in sensitive missions. This article shows how ASGAARD's protective security and CypSec's human risk platform help governments mitigate insider threats, enforce trust, and maintain operational security.

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Supply Chain Security for Government and Defense Missions

Hamm, Germany - September 18, 2025

Defense missions rely on long, complex supply chains that are vulnerable to fraud and disruption. This article details how ASGAARD's protective logistics and CypSec's digital oversight help governments secure supply networks in hostile environments.

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Integrating Digital Oversight into Physical Security Programs

Hamm, Germany - September 18, 2025

Physical security alone no longer stops modern threats. This article explores how ASGAARD's on-the-ground protection and CypSec's digital monitoring can be combined to close security gaps and prevent cross-domain attacks on government facilities.

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Securing Sensitive Communications in Multinational Operations

Hamm, Germany - September 18, 2025

Cross-border missions require trusted communication channels. This article outlines how ASGAARD's operational support and CypSec's sovereign encrypted communication platform protect sensitive information during multinational government projects.

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Best Practices for Government Cyber Hygiene in High-Stakes Projects

Hamm, Germany - September 18, 2025

Even advanced defense projects fail without basic cyber hygiene. This article explains how ASGAARD-style operational discipline and CypSec's security automation help governments enforce cyber hygiene in high-stakes environments.

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Applying ASGAARD Principles to Human and Asset Risk Assessment

Hamm, Germany - September 18, 2025

Human and asset risks are often overlooked in complex operations. This article shows how CypSec applies ASGAARD's operational discipline to assess, monitor, and reduce human and asset risks in government and defense projects.

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How Background Checks Can Protect Companies from Costly Cyber Consequences

Zurich, Switzerland - September 17, 2025

The 2024 ransomware attack on Hamilton, Ontario disrupted critical city services and revealed severe gaps in both technical and human risk management. This article examines how background checks could have reduced the damage and why they are essential in modern cyber strategies.

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Building Trust in Supply Chains Through Human and Digital Security

Zurich, Switzerland - September 17, 2025

Organizations in the DACH region face growing regulatory pressure to secure their supply chains against both technical and human risks. This article shows how Validato and CypSec combine background verification and cyber defense to create resilient supply chains.

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Strengthening Corporate Security with Human Risk and Cyber Defense

Zurich, Switzerland - September 17, 2025

Companies face threats from both external attackers and internal risks. This article explains how the partnership between Validato and CypSec unites background checks and cybersecurity to protect corporate assets and ensure compliance.

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Background Screening in the DACH Region Under GDPR and Local Laws

Zurich, Switzerland - September 17, 2025

Strict data protection laws in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland make background screening complex but essential. This article outlines how Validato and CypSec help organizations design lawful, effective human risk processes that prevent insider threats.

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