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The Top 5 Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAP) in 2026

An Exposure Assessment Platform (EAP) discovers assets, identifies exposures such as vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, prioritizes them with threat and business context, and helps drive remediation. This list is narrowed to the five platforms most directly relevant to configuration and identity-driven exposure.

August 13, 2026

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Exploring The Best CTEM Vendors in 2026

This guide breaks down what CTEM actually covers, where Gartner's research currently stands, and which vendors are worth evaluating depending on where your program needs the most help.

August 10, 2026

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Protecting the Corporate Nervous System: Why Network Security Assurance Is Becoming a Security Imperative

As enterprise environments change faster and attackers use AI to identify weaknesses, periodic reviews can no longer provide confidence that network security controls are working as intended. This blog explores how Network Security Assurance helps organizations continuously validate security controls, prioritize meaningful exposure, and remediate gaps before they can be exploited.

July 21, 2026

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The Missing Layer in Network Security: Continuous Assurance

Attackers operate continuously. Most network security controls are still reviewed periodically. Firewall rule management, change workflows, documentation, and compliance all matter. Yet they do not tell security teams whether live controls enforce policy as intended, every minute of every day. Continuous assurance across every security control is now essential in a world where the adversary is finding every needle in every haystack at AI-speed. Security teams need to continuously validate security controls, detect configuration drift and hidden exposure, and realign controls before attackers exploit hidden weaknesses.

July 21, 2026

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A Guide to Firewall Management: How to Set Up Proper Firewall Rules

This guide covers what effective firewall management looks like in practice, how to build a ruleset that actually reflects your intended security policy, and why ongoing governance matters as much as the initial setup.

July 15, 2026

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What Is Firewall Configuration and Why Is It So Important?

What is Firewall Configuration and Why is it so Important? Firewall configuration is the set of rules, policies, and settings that define how a firewall behaves. Without configuration, a firewall is hardware and software waiting for instructions. With configuration, it becomes a control that determines what traffic is permitted, what is blocked, and what gets inspected before a decision is made. Get the configuration right, and the firewall does its job. Let it drift, and you have the appearance of protection without the substance of it.

July 12, 2026

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Continuous Assurance Across Every Network Security Control

As rules are altered, controls drift from baselines and risk gets buried in the rulebase. Stale firewall rules stay live, shadowed rules obscure exposure, and overly permissive any/any rules sneak in. Periodic manual rule reviews rarely add value and fail to validate live enforcement posture. Months pass between audits, widening the gap for AI adversaries to exploit weaknesses and breach defenses. In fact, 42% of all configuration-related breaches, or near misses, are due to firewall rule misconfigurations. Reach continuously finds and fixes these weaknesses before AI attackers can exploit them.

July 7, 2026

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Microsoft E3, E5, and E7 Security Licenses: A Data-Driven Upgrade Guide

Upgrading Microsoft enterprise licensing from E3 to E5 or P1 to P2? Whether your company is upgrading or considering the move, you may be facing questions about how to leverage this shift for your security team’s advantage.

June 3, 2026

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Exposure Management Explained: How to Go Beyond Vulnerability Scanning

In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, exposure management has become a critical practice for organizations looking to stay ahead of potential threats. Unlike traditional approaches that focus solely on vulnerabilities, exposure management examines the broader context of how and why specific issues could impact an organization and prioritizes actions based on risk. A key aspect of this practice is understanding the exposure of employees, contractors, and even executives as attackers often attempt to exploit human vulnerabilities as well as critical systems.

May 27, 2026

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Misconfigured Security Controls Open the Door for Storm-2949

The Microsoft Defender Security Research Team and Microsoft Threat Intelligence documented a campaign in which Storm-2949 abused Microsoft Entra ID accounts to exfiltrate data from Microsoft 365 and Azure environments. The attack path depended on a chain of security control gaps across identity, SharePoint access, endpoint protection, application control, and event visibility. Each misconfigured security control gave the attackers an opening and more room to move after the initial identity compromise. We took a closer look at the security controls mapped directly to the steps that Storm-2949 actually executed, and how proper configuration could have likely thwarted forward progress for Storm-2949.

May 19, 2026

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Close Defensive Gaps Before AI Attacks Exploit Them

AI-powered attacks are moving faster, scaling wider, and increasing in volume. Defenders need AI-powered defenses to quickly deny AI-attackers an opening, and close security control gaps before AI attacks can exploit them.

May 4, 2026

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Security Hardening Explained: Why is it Critical for Your Security Program?

To achieve effective system hardening, a systematic approach is crucial. This involves identifying, auditing, managing, and mitigating cybersecurity vulnerabilities throughout your IT infrastructure. Additionally, it requires continuous monitoring and optimizing of security controls to address threats targeting and impacting your environment. This article explores the importance of system hardening.

May 3, 2026

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What is Security Debt and What Should Your Organization Do About it?

This growing issue not only increases an organization’s exposure to potential cyberattacks but also wastes money and time spent by security analysts chasing down alerts that could have been stopped upstream. By understanding the implications of security debt and implementing strategies for security hardening, organizations of all sizes can minimize risk and maximize their return on investment.

April 29, 2026

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Rethinking Security Posture Assessments

Security posture assessments are a foundational part of any security program. They’re how organizations take stock of their defenses, evaluate coverage, and identify gaps. But in practice, many posture assessments have become stuck in a pattern.

April 27, 2026

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The Configuration Drift Behind the Teams Helpdesk Breach

n April 22, 2026, Google's Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant disclosed a campaign by a threat actor they're tracking as UNC6692. What's notable about UNC6692 is what they didn't do. They didn't use a zero-day. They didn't exploit a software vulnerability. They didn't bypass any of the security controls Microsoft has built into Teams. They used the controls as configured.

April 26, 2026

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Configure → Drift → Breach → Repeat

A new research report from Reach Security reveals that misconfigured security controls, configuration drift, and unused capabilities across an organization’s existing security technology stack are a primary driver of cybersecurity risk. Among a sample of 250 cybersecurity professionals, 97% of respondents said their organization had either a confirmed breach or a near miss in the past year because of a cybersecurity tool misconfiguration.

April 13, 2026

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What is Configuration Drift? 5 Best Practices for Your Team's Security Posture

Left unchecked, configuration drift increases exposure to cyber threats. Yet, many organizations remain unaware of how much drift has occurred until an audit, incident, or breach exposes the issue. Understanding what configuration drift is, how it happens, and how to prevent it is critical for maintaining a strong security posture.

April 9, 2026

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Network Security Policy Management (NSPM): Keeping Policy and Reality Aligned

Traditional NSPM tools excel at defining and enforcing policies but struggle to verify that those configurations remain intact. Once deployed, policies can drift quietly for weeks or months, only surfacing when an incident or audit exposes the discrepancy. Reach Security extends NSPM beyond policy management into policy assurance – ensuring that what’s configured always matches what’s intended.

April 8, 2026

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Exploring CSPM: What is Cloud Security Posture Management?

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is a category of cloud security tooling that automates the identification and remediation of misconfigurations and security risks across cloud environments.

April 7, 2026

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10 Hidden Cybersecurity Misconfigurations

Here are 10 critical cybersecurity misconfigurations we expect to see in 2026, and how Reach can identify and fix them before attackers can exploit them.

April 2, 2026

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A Comprehensive Guide to Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)

Continuous Threat Exposure Management is a continuous security framework for identifying, assessing, validating, and reducing the exposures that matter most to an organization.

March 30, 2026

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Reach Recognized in Gartner® Emerging Tech Report on Domain-Specific Language Models for SecOps

March 8, 2026

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Reach Security Recognized as a Representative Provider of ASCA in the Gartner® Innovation Insight: Automated Security Control Assessment

February 14, 2026

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What is an automated security control assessment?

To address this growing challenge, the concept of Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA) was defined and named by Gartner, setting a new standard for how organizations evaluate and optimize their security controls. By automating these processes, ASCA empowers organizations to reduce exposure, enhance their defenses, and stay ahead of emerging threats.

February 2, 2026

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What is Security Optimization? How to Find Gaps in Your Stack

True security optimization isn’t about buying more technology; it’s about maximizing the impact of the tools you already have. This means shifting from a reactive, tool-centric approach to a proactive, outcome-driven strategy; one that ensures security investments deliver measurable risk reduction.

February 2, 2026

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Security Control Management: The New Mandate for Risk-Driven Security

Security teams today aren’t short on tools. Most environments are packed with security controls—spanning email, identity, network, endpoint, and cloud. But despite this abundance, risk remains stubbornly high. Attacks continue to land. Exposure persists.

February 2, 2026

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Compensating Controls: The Unsung Heroes of Cyber Resilience

Most security teams know what the “right” controls look like on paper. But real-world environments rarely match the blueprint. Between legacy systems, limited staffing, and overlapping tools, the gap between what’s ideal and what’s feasible is often wide.

February 2, 2026

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What Device Code Phishing Reveals About Security Configuration Gaps

Recent research from Proofpoint highlights a growing trend in identity-based attacks. Rather than stealing passwords or exploiting software flaws, multiple threat actors are now abusing legitimate Microsoft authentication workflows to gain access to Microsoft 365 accounts at scale. This technique, known as device code phishing, is not new. What is new is how widespread the technique has become, particularly among both state-aligned and financially motivated adversaries. More importantly, it underscores a recurring theme in modern security incidents. The attack succeeds not because a control failed, but because it was not properly configured to stop this behavior.

January 7, 2026

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When Misconfigurations Become the Front Door: What Russia’s Edge Device Campaign Signals for Modern Cyber Defense

A recent Dark Reading article highlighted a sobering shift in how nation-state threat actors are gaining access to critical infrastructure. According to reporting on a new Amazon Threat Intelligence disclosure, Russian actors affiliated with the GRU have spent years refining a campaign that increasingly bypasses traditional vulnerability exploitation altogether. Instead, they are walking straight through the front door left open by misconfigured network edge devices.

December 18, 2025

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Threat Exposure Management: A Better Way to Answer "How Exposed Are We?"

Threat exposure management refers to the continuous process of assessing how vulnerable an organization is to actual attack paths across all systems, applications, and environments. This includes both direct assets and external dependencies like cloud services, SaaS platforms, and third-party integrations.

November 25, 2025

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EAP and XDR: An Essential Marriage of Proactive and Reactive Security Operations

In cybersecurity, detection and response are table stakes. Attackers are faster, techniques more subtle, and the cost of even small missteps on the part of the defender is growing. To truly shift from reactive defense to proactive protection, teams need something more: continuous exposure assessment, management, and prevention.

October 21, 2025

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Security Starts Left of Boom: Pre-Event Strategies for Proactive Risk Reduction

By shifting focus left of boom—closing exposures before attackers exploit them—security teams can regain control of their defenses, get ahead of threats, maximize their existing security tool investments, and stop the cycle of reactive firefighting.

October 15, 2025

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Bridging the Last Mile: Reach’s New ServiceNow Integration Enhances Cybersecurity Maturity

As we continue to navigate the complexities of cybersecurity, our focus remains on providing solutions that not only secure but also streamline operational processes. The new ServiceNow integration is a testament to our dedication to mastering the last mile, ensuring that our clients can achieve and maintain the highest levels of security maturity.

September 9, 2025

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Security Tools Optimization Spotlight: Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access

Conditional Access contains simple yet powerful sign-on attributes that can be tailored to your business with a risk-based approach. Whether you're undergoing security tool consolidation efforts or embarking on an IAM hardening project, consider starting with a series of tailored sign-on policies that address risk where most breaches start.

September 9, 2025

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Zero Trust on NYSE Taking Stock: A Conversation with Reach's CEO

Reach Security CEO & Co-Founder Garrett Hamilton sits down with Trinity Chavez of the NYSE to explore how Reach takes organizations from “architecture to action” with Zero Trust.

September 9, 2025

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Adopting & Implementing Zero Trust: Moving from Concept to Execution

Zero Trust isn’t a product or a one-time implementation, it’s a strategic approach to cybersecurity that continuously evolves. Yet, many organizations struggle to move beyond theoretical frameworks and turn Zero Trust into real-world security improvements.

July 29, 2025

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Reach Security Named in Gartner® Emerging Tech Research on the Future of Exposure Management

July 16, 2025

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The Definitive Guide to Security Misconfiguration

The constant evolution of today's threat landscape has organizations counting on security controls to keep the bad actors out and safeguard their people, sensitive data, critical infrastructure, operations, and brand. However, even the most sophisticated security tools can present a risk to organizations when they are improperly configured. And unfortunately, even the best security teams can make mistakes. Whether it’s a firewall rule left too permissive, a mismanaged IAM rule, or an EDR process monitoring bypass, the implications can range from severe financial loss to risks with the customer base that can lead to significant and sometimes irreparable reputational damage.

July 6, 2025

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7 Practical Steps to Implement Zero Trust

Zero Trust is no longer a novel idea, it's a security imperative. While most organizations have embraced Zero Trust in principle, putting it into practice is another story.

June 24, 2025

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The Last Mile in Cybersecurity: Turning Assessments into Action

The last mile is a critical component of cybersecurity operations. By embracing a comprehensive approach that goes beyond mere reports to actionable and automated implementation, Reach ensures that your organization is not only secure but also agile and efficient. Stay tuned for our upcoming posts where we will delve deeper into specific use cases and solutions that exemplify our commitment to mastering the last mile in cybersecurity.

June 11, 2025

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Exposure Assessment Platforms: Turning Noise into Action

Security teams are buried in findings. Whether it scans for vulnerabilities, evaluates configurations, or monitors runtime behavior, every tool delivers its own version of “what’s wrong.” The result is a sprawling list of issues, all marked urgent, with little consistency in how they’re scored or what should happen next.

May 21, 2025

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Security-Focused Configuration Management: Getting Beyond the Checkbox

In many organizations, configuration management is treated as a background process. It’s something handled during deployment or reviewed during compliance audits. But when viewed through a security lens, configuration becomes one of the most important factors in reducing exposure.

May 21, 2025

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Posture Management: A Modern Approach to Building Security That Holds

Security posture is the ability of your environment to withstand real-world threats, not just meet compliance requirements. Strong posture doesn’t just reflect what’s present. It reflects how well your protections are working, how proactively you reduce risk, and how resilient your systems are when tested.

May 21, 2025

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A Framework for Vulnerability Mitigation

Vulnerability management has long been seen as one of the most straightforward areas in security. Scan your assets, identify vulnerabilities, prioritize the findings, and patch what you can. On paper, it looks like a repeatable process. But in reality, vulnerability mitigation is anything but simple.

April 30, 2025

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Reach Security Quarterly Product Update 2Q2025

As security teams face growing complexity across tools, identities, and threats, Reach Security continues to deliver targeted capabilities to help organizations mitigate risk sooner, align controls to real-world threats, and drive operational clarity. This quarter’s updates are all about proactive defense - helping you adapt in real time as your environment evolves.

April 20, 2025

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The Work Never Stops. But Is It Working?

Security teams are busier than ever, chasing alerts, deploying tools, and checking boxes. But under the surface, many are asking the same question: Are we actually reducing risk? This post explores why constant activity doesn’t always equal meaningful progress, and how to break free from reactive cycles to focus on what truly matters.

April 2, 2025

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A Blueprint for Stronger Defenses: MITRE D3FEND

Staying ahead of adversaries is a constant challenge due to the evolving tactics and techniques that they leverage to gain access and achieve their objectives. While frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK have become an industry standard for understanding and discussing adversary behaviors, it can be challenging for defenders to map their own defenses.

January 8, 2025

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Tailoring Configurations and Last Mile

One of the key value propositions of Reach is that our platform not only increases your security posture by providing critical insights, but it also allows customer to take action and deploy configurations with automation.

December 9, 2024

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Introducing Compliance View: Satisfy GRC Requirements with Security Product Configurations

We’re thrilled to introduce the new Compliance View within Reach! Built to support Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) teams, Reach customers can now drill in to see how the configurations in their enterprise security products tie back into prominent GRC frameworks, and how they can use these products to improve their maturity with a given framework.

November 19, 2024

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Top 10 Security Misconfigurations to Watch For in 2024

Through collaboration among our teams, we've identified the top 10 misconfigurations that often slip through the cracks and significantly impact an organization's security.

November 12, 2024

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Reach Licensing View: Turning Visibility into Value

We're excited to announce the launch of Reach’s Licensing View, which was built to help customers better understand the value they are getting from the licensed features they are paying for in their security products.

October 30, 2024

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Roads, Not Roadblocks: Empowering User Experience with Secure Access

One of the most exciting parts of joining an early-stage company is the opportunity to do things differently. Shortly after I joined Reach, I learned that customers were using Reach to help streamline authentication processes for low-risk users, particularly those who log in from the same locations and devices each day. Rather than constantly prompting for multi-factor authentication, Reach enables security teams to identify and control exposure in place for users in familiar scenarios, reducing the friction for users, while maintaining security.

October 23, 2024

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Strengthening Defenses Against Ransomware

With Cybersecurity Awareness Month in full swing and the 2024 Grace Hopper Celebration behind us, I had the opportunity to present a choose-your-own-adventure tabletop session on ransomware. After reflecting on my discussions with attendees at GHC, ransomware emerged as a challenge and top priority for many.

October 16, 2024

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Integration Architecture and Why Reach Took the Hard, But Best Route

In today’s fast-evolving cybersecurity landscape, integration architecture is not just a necessary feature, but the backbone of how security systems communicate and protect organizations. Reach has approached integrations from a unique perspective, opting to take the hard road of building a system that is not tied solely to best practices, but fundamentally designed to adapt, learn, and integrate with purpose-built AI. It’s a decision that reflects our commitment to innovation, a deep understanding of the cybersecurity market alongside the products within a customer’s ecosystem, and a belief that the best path is rarely the easiest one.

October 9, 2024

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Going Above and Beyond Microsoft’s Impending MFA Requirement

Beginning in October, Microsoft will mandate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for multiple Azure components, including the Entra admin portal. Given Microsoft’s research indicates that MFA can prevent over 99.2% of account compromise attempts, this is great news! For those utilizing Entra Conditional Access to govern how users authenticate to mission-critical applications, there are additional measures you can take within Entra to further reduce the risk of credential compromise. Let’s explore some strategies to elevate your Conditional Access implementation beyond MFA using the features you’re licensed for.

September 25, 2024

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Reach Security mentioned in the 2024 Gartner® Innovation Insight: Automated Security Control Assessment

While Gartner is helping to shape this new market category, companies like Autodesk and Nutanix are already realizing the benefits of this approach through Reach’s platform. By focusing on continuous security control assessments that leverage both business and adversarial threat context, Reach helps organizations like Autodesk and Nutanix understand the specific risks they face. Reach automates configuration changes to align with these risks, while also ensuring that organizations maximize the value of their existing security tools.

September 18, 2024

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Countering Phishing and Credential Theft with MITRE D3FEND: How Reach Keeps You Ahead of the Threats

Phishing and credential theft remain two of the top methods adversaries use to breach networks. To counter these effectively, it’s not enough to understand the attacks themselves—you also need a strong defensive strategy. That’s where a framework like MITRE D3FEND can make all the difference, providing a structured approach to securing your organization.

September 11, 2024

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The Fast and the Furious – Configuration Drift

As organizations expand and evolve, the relationship between IT and security becomes equally as important as it is complex. The rapid pace of technology changes to drive revenue and streamline operations, coupled with an increasing number of sophisticated cyber threats, forces both IT and security teams to constantly adapt. This dynamic environment makes it challenging to maintain the integrity of security controls while ensuring operational efficiency and availability. For security teams, this challenge is especially evident when it comes to monitoring and maintaining established security controls from a configuration lens.

August 28, 2024

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Cloudy with a Chance of Account Takeover

Integrating Reach with Okta is a game-changer for boosting your security in the event of credential compromise. With Reach’s advanced analytics and proactive recommendations, organizations can better defend against threats from attackers looking to spoof their location and gain access to sensitive infrastructure. This combo not only maximizes the value of Okta’s Adaptive features, but also adds an extra layer of security for a more comprehensive approach to your IAM deployment.

August 14, 2024

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The Power of Automation with Reach

At Reach, we prioritize the safety and control of our users by leveraging a staged environment for automation. This approach not only safeguards the production environment but also ensures that changes are meticulously tested and approved before going live. Whether it’s implementing Conditional Access policies or deploying other critical updates, Reach’s staged automation empowers organizations to increase their cybersecurity posture with confidence, efficiency, and ease.

July 30, 2024

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Why an identity-centric approach to Tools Rationalization is the place to start

You may hear terms like "tools rationalization" or "maximizing tool effectiveness," but their meanings can vary. Are you following a vendor best practice checklist, mapping CVEs to specific configurations, or tracking workforce risk and ensuring your licensed capabilities address this risk? Whichever path you choose, understanding the value of each approach is crucial.

May 20, 2024

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Reach Security Launches Network Security Assurance to Continuously Find and Fix Misconfigurations Before Adversaries Can Exploit Them

Reach Security Launches Network Security Assurance to Continuously Find and Fix Misconfigurations Before Adversaries Can Exploit Them

July 6, 2026

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AI for Security Infrastructure: Rebalancing Cybersecurity for the Decade Ahead

Garrett Hamilton, CEO and Co-Founder of Reach Security, wrote an article on Security Boulevard that explores why cybersecurity must rebalance from reactive incident response toward proactive prevention. He argues that tool sprawl, dynamic exposure, misconfigurations, and configuration drift have made it nearly impossible for security architects to manage modern environments manually. The article explains why general-purpose AI is not reliable enough for security architecture, and why domain-specific language models, or DSLMs, are better suited to safely interpret controls, detect drift, and guide remediation. DSLMs can help security teams optimize the tools they already own, close exposure gaps before attackers exploit them, and put prevention back at the center of cybersecurity strategy.

May 5, 2026

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Reach Security Research Finds Configuration Drift Driving Cybersecurity Incidents at 97% of Organizations

Reach Security, an AI-native security company that gives customers a single interface to understand and operate security controls at scale, is proud to announce new research revealing that configuration drift is driving cybersecurity incidents across 97% of organizations — with remediation taking over eight days on average.

April 14, 2026

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Reach Security named Best Continuous Threat Exposure Management Solution in 2026 SC Awards

Reach Security, an AI‑native security company that gives customers a single interface to understand and operate security controls at scale, is proud to announce that it has been named the winner in the Best Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Solution category.

March 29, 2026

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Reach Recognized in Gartner® Emerging Tech Report on Domain-Specific Language Models for SecOps

Reach Security has been identified as a key vendor in the Gartner "Emerging Tech: Tech Innovators in Domain-Specific Language Models for SecOps.” Reach Security was named in the “Preemptive Capabilities for Tech Innovators in DSLM Models for SecOps category.”

March 9, 2026

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Reach Security Announces Breakout Year Marked by Major Growth, Market Momentum, and Expanded Leadership Team

Reach Security experienced record expansion across every dimension of the business in 2025. The company achieved 500% revenue growth, a 300% increase in new customers, and 300% team growth.

February 9, 2026

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IT Gives, Security Takes Away: The Hidden Cost of Configuration Drift

Security Boulevard examines how configuration drift has become a hidden but escalating security risk, as growing tool complexity, constant change, and emerging AI automation quietly erode enterprise security postures over time.

February 3, 2026

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Operationalizing Cyber Resilience With Reach Security

E-ChannelNews reports on how Garrett Hamilton, CEO and co-founder of Reach Security, is addressing configuration drift and resource constraints by using AI to harden existing security tools and operationalize cyber resilience.

February 3, 2026

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Turning Foresight Into Resilience in the Age of Exposure

APMdigest examines how organizations can reclaim prevention by using exposure management and agentic AI to turn configuration awareness into operational resilience, drawing lessons from outages like Cloudflare’s.

February 3, 2026

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Reach Security Named a Representative Provider in Gartner® Innovation Insight for Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA)

Reach Security announced today that it has been recognized as a Representative Provider in the Gartner Innovation Insight for Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA) report.

February 1, 2026

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AI for Security Infrastructure: Rebalancing Cybersecurity for 2026

SecuritySenses analyzes how cybersecurity can move beyond an “assume breach” mindset by using domain-specific AI models to help security architects reduce misconfigurations, manage tool sprawl, and rebalance strategy toward prevention.

January 28, 2026

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Cyber Insights 2026: Zero Trust and the Identity-First Path

SecurityWeek explores how zero trust is evolving from a static goal into a continuous, identity-driven journey, shaped by AI, non-human identities, and mounting operational and organizational challenges.

January 28, 2026

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The Shift Left of Boom: Making Cyber Threat Prevention Practical Again

Security Boulevard explores how organizations can shift cybersecurity left of boom by using agentic AI to optimize existing security tools, improve visibility, and make threat prevention practical again.

January 6, 2026

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CRN 10 Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2026

CRN highlights 10 early-stage cybersecurity startups poised for growth in 2026, including companies advancing identity security, exposure management, data protection and hybrid attack surface solutions.

January 4, 2026

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Reach Security Joins the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program to Accelerate Agentic AI for E3/E5 Security Optimization

December 1, 2025

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TechRound 100: Reach Security and AI-Native Exposure Management

TechRound profiles Reach Security as a TechRound-100 company, highlighting how its AI-native exposure management platform helps organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate real security risk using the tools they already own.

November 25, 2025

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My Black Friday Cybersecurity Wishlist: Controls You Already Own

SecuritySenses explains how organizations can reduce heightened Black Friday cyber risk by activating and properly configuring the security controls they already own, addressing misconfigurations and configuration drift before attackers exploit them.

November 19, 2025

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Reach Security Recognized as a CRN® 2025 Stellar Startup!

November 9, 2025

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Reach Security Announces $10 Million Strategic Investment from M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund with Support from Artisanal Ventures and Other Existing Investors

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July 27, 2025

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Reach Security Unveils MastermindAI™: The AI Platform Purpose-Built to Find & Fix Hidden Risk

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April 27, 2025

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Reach Security Expands Platform to Strengthen Enterprise Security Posture and Operationalize Risk Reduction

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April 21, 2025

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Reach Security Powers into 2025, Addressing the Growing Challenge of Security Posture Assessment & Remediation

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February 10, 2025

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Reach Security Now Available for Purchase on CrowdStrike Marketplace

Reach Security, the company pioneering advanced AI to reinvent security operations, today announced its listing in the CrowdStrike Marketplace, a premier technology marketplace and world-class ecosystem of third-party security products that integrate with CrowdStrike.

November 14, 2024

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Reach Security Raises $20M for AI to Transform How Companies Use Their Cybersecurity Products

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November 13, 2024

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Reach Security taps a company’s existing tools to fight cyber threats

TechCrunch reports on the cybersecurity budget challenges faced by organizations, with Reach Security offering a solution.

November 9, 2024

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Reach Security Raises $20M to Help Manage Cybersecurity Products

Reach Security, a California startup promising technology to help businesses manage the maze of security tools and products, has raised $20 million in early stage venture capital funding.

November 8, 2024

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Reach Security raises $20M to enhance AI-driven cybersecurity tools

Cybersecurity startup Reach Security Inc. announced today that it has raised $20 million in new funding to develop more artificial intelligence security features.

November 7, 2024

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Ballistic Ventures spearheads $20m investment in AI-driven Reach Security

The investment is led by Ballistic Ventures and sees contributions from Artisanal Ventures and notable industry figures such as Mark McLaughlin, former CEO and President of Palo Alto Networks, and Denise Persson, CMO of Snowflake.

November 6, 2024

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Conversations with Reach: Todd Graham

Todd shares his perspective from decades across startups, large enterprises, Cisco, and venture capital — and explains why Reach stood out as a platform focused on security hygiene, configuration awareness, and measurable outcomes, rather than more alerts.

December 22, 2025

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Conversations with Reach Podcast: No Time to Drift

November 5, 2025

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Stop Configuration Drift | Reach Product Demo

Security configurations change constantly. Policies, exclusions and rules are modified, and updates aren’t always shared with the security team. Over time, this configuration drift erodes defenses quietly, leaving gaps over time. Reach detects and remediates configuration drift across your integrated security tools. Using cybersecurity domain-specific AI agents, Reach uncovers drift, shows you potential impact to your security posture, and then automates remediation to keep you aligned to policy and fix these issues before they introduce risk.

October 22, 2025

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Conversations with Reach: Jay Wilson

Join Reach Security CEO & Co-Founder Garrett Hamilton in an in-depth conversation with Jay Wilson, CIO & CISO at Insurity. Recorded at Black Hat USA 2025, Jay shares how Insurity is leveraging AI to sustain Zero Trust, streamline operations, and bridge the gap between IT and security leadership. The discussion explores the emergence of dual CIO/CISO roles, the transformation of subjective security practices into objective, data-driven automation, and why the future of cybersecurity relies on partnership, collaboration, and AI-powered platforms.

October 14, 2025

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What's New with Reach: Exploring the New User Interface

Reach Security has a fresh modern look that simplifies navigation, reduces clicks, and improves usability. Take the grand tour. Learn more at reach.security

September 28, 2025

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What's New with Reach: Enhanced Navigation

Reach Security's updated user interface supports an integrated workflow with quicker access to information. To learn more, visit reach.security

September 28, 2025

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What's New with Reach: Drift

Reach Security's updated user interface allows you to monitor configuration drift efficiently and create tailored rules for more precise security controls.

September 28, 2025

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What's New with Reach: Asset Inventory

Reach Security's updated user interface includes an expanded asset inventory page which offers a centralized location to access threat and risk metrics for users, devices, and integrated product capabilities.

September 28, 2025

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Conversations with Reach: Kevin Mandia

Join Reach Security CEO & Co-founder Garrett Hamilton in an in-depth conversation with cybersecurity legend Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant and partner at Ballistic Ventures. Recorded at Black Hat USA 2025, Kevin shares his 30-year journey in incident response, the professionalization of cyber threats, AI's impact on security, and advice for founders building the next generation of solutions. Key insights include why "security is a calling where you can never rest" and the shift toward holistic cyber defenses.

September 22, 2025

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Conversations with Reach: Nicole Perlroth

Our CEO & co-founder, Garrett Hamilton, chats with Nicole Perlroth following her Black Hat USA 2025 keynote, where the former New York Times cybersecurity reporter, venture partner at Ballistic Ventures and founding partner at Silver Buckshot Ventures delivers a stark warning: AI is supercharging cyber threats.

August 28, 2025

Video

Tag Infosphere - Edward Amoroso & Garrett Hamilton

In this episode, we sit down with Garrett Hamilton, Co-Founder and CEO of Reach Security, to talk about the hidden risks most enterprises overlook—misconfigurations, exposures, and underutilized security tools. Garrett shares his journey from working at leading cybersecurity companies to building Reach, a platform designed to identify and fix hidden risks using AI, APIs, and your existing security stack. We cover:

August 13, 2025

Video

Running Toward Problems, Zero Trust, AI & Evolving Role of the CISO

July 8, 2025

Video

Reach Security Leader Day: Panel Discussion

A conversation with Geoff Belknap, Deputy CISO, Microsoft; Nicole Perlroth, New York Times Bestselling Author; and Colt Blackmore, Co-Founder & CTO, Reach Security.

February 5, 2025

Video

Reach Security Leader Day: Panel Discussion

A conversation with Geoff Belknap, Deputy CISO, Microsoft; Raymond Winder, Director of Information Security, Autodesk; Joe Masud, VP of Cyber Security & Engineering, Aristocrat; and Barmak Meftah, Co-Founder & General Partner, Ballistic Ventures.

February 5, 2025

Video

Reach Security Leader Day: Perspectives from Joshua Jones

A conversation with Joshua Jones, VP of Western Division, Tevora.

February 5, 2025

Video

Reach Security Leader Day: Round Table Discussion

A conversation with Raymond Winder, Director of Information Security, Autodesk; Joe Masud, VP of Cyber Security & Engineering, Aristocrat; Joshua Jones, VP of Western Division, Tevora; and Garrett Hamilton, Founder & CEO, Reach.

February 5, 2025

Video

Reach Security Leader Day: Perspectives from Joe Masud

A conversation with Joe Masud, VP of Cyber Security & Engineering, Aristocrat.

February 5, 2025

Video

Reach on NYSE TV

Reach Security CEO & Co-Founder Garrett Hamilton sits down with Trinity Chavez of the NYSE to explore how Reach takes organizations from “architecture to action” with Zero Trust.

February 4, 2025

Video

Reach on The RSnake Show Demo Day

Trey Ford and RSnake did a great demo day with Reach Security. It blew what little hair RSnake has left back. A person-based risk approach to IT governance and control? Who would have thought of such a thing? Definitely worth a watch if you control security at a large organization.

February 4, 2025

Video

F Your ML Model

Dive into the complexities, strengths, shortcomings, and novel uses of machine learning with Colt in this BSides talk.

November 17, 2024

Video

Best Practices Are the Worst

Organizations are asked, told, reminded, and even have their security measured against industry best practices configurations. But could they actually be detrimental to your company and the industry as a whole?

November 16, 2024

Product Brief

Reach Security Proof of Value (POV) Infosheet

A Reach proof of value (POV) connects to your existing security tools to find and fix misconfigurations and activate underused security controls. This infosheet shows you the insights that Reach can surface for your security team when you engage in a POV exercise with Reach Security.

July 21, 2026

Product Brief

Network Security Assurance

Reach Network Security Assurance is AI-driven defense for the network security controls that AI attackers target. Security teams get continuous visibility into how network security controls are configured, enforced, and drifting across your NGFW, SASE, and adjacent network security enforcement points. Reach identifies rule issues, misconfigurations, weak security profiles, unintended access paths, and drift at the speed of AI, then prioritizes what matters most and helps remediate gaps before attackers can exploit them.

May 25, 2026

Product Brief

The Cost of Configuration Drift

The cost of configuration drift is high. 97% of security professionals had either a confirmed breach or a near miss as a result of a cybersecurity tool misconfiguration in the past year. Check out this infographic to see all of the data on this troubling security topic.

May 10, 2026

Product Brief

Close Security Control Gaps Before AI Attacks Exploit Them | DataSheet

Cyberattacks target any kind of exploitable weakness across your defenses, including misconfigured security controls, unused security capabilities, and configuration drift. AI has drastically accelerated the speed, scale, and volume of these attacks. Only AI-powered defenses can outpace and stop AI-powered attacks. Reach is the AI-native operating system for your security controls. Reach proactively identifies and remediates misconfigured controls, activates underutilized capabilities, and continuously monitors for configuration drift to close security gaps faster than AI-powered attacks can exploit them.

May 6, 2026

Product Brief

Optimize Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) Controls

Reach analyzes your Zscaler Internet Access deployment to uncover blind spots, identify misconfigurations, and detect configuration drift across web security policies. Reach prioritizes fixes, automatically remediates policy gaps, and continuously validates that ZIA controls remain aligned with security policy.

April 1, 2026

Product Brief

Optimize Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) Controls

Reach analyzes your ZPA deployment to identify misconfigurations, access gaps, and policy drift across Zero Trust controls. It prioritizes fixes, remediates issues, and continuously validates that access policies remain aligned with security intent.

April 1, 2026

Product Brief

Optimize Microsoft Teams Security Controls

Reach analyzes your Microsoft Teams deployment to uncover collaboration security blind spots, identify risky control settings, and detect configuration drift across Teams policies. Reach prioritizes fixes, remediates misconfigurations, and continuously validates that Teams collaboration controls remain aligned with security policy.

April 1, 2026

Product Brief

Optimize Microsoft Defender for O365 Controls

Reach analyzes your Microsoft Defender for Office 365 deployment to uncover blind spots, identify misconfigurations, and detect configuration drift across email and collaboration security policies. Reach prioritizes fixes, automatically remediates gaps, and continuously validates that Defender protections remain aligned with security policy.

April 1, 2026

Product Brief

Harden Your Netskope Controls

Reach continuously analyzes Netskope configurations to identify misconfigurations, prioritize fixes, automate remediation, and validate that protections stay aligned with security policy.

March 22, 2026

Product Brief

Optimize CrowdStrike Falcon Controls

Reach analyzes your CrowdStrike Falcon platform deployment to uncover blind spots, identify misconfigurations, and detect configuration drift across endpoint protection policies.

March 22, 2026

Product Brief

Optimize Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Controls

Reach analyzes your Microsoft Defender for Endpoint deployment to uncover blind spots, identify misconfigurations, and detect configuration drift across endpoint protection policies. Reach prioritizes fixes, automatically remediates gaps, and continuously validates that Defender protections remain aligned with security policy.

March 22, 2026

Product Brief

Optimize Microsoft Entra ID and Conditional Access Controls

Reach continuously analyzes Entra ID identity and access configurations to uncover Conditional Access gaps, authentication weaknesses, and risky policy exceptions. It prioritizes high-impact improvements, remediates misconfigurations, and continuously validates that identity protections remain aligned with Zero Trust security principles.

March 22, 2026

Product Brief

Reach Datasheet

Reach integrates with your existing security tools to proactively identify and remediate misconfigurations, activate underutilized capabilities, and continuously monitor for configuration drift to close security gaps and supercharge security posture.

February 5, 2026

Product Brief

Securing M&A Solution Guide

February 5, 2026

Product Brief

Securing Healthcare Guide

January 29, 2026

Product Brief

Zero Trust Solution Guide

January 29, 2026

Product Brief

Assessment Guide

January 29, 2026

Product Brief

Executive Brief: ROI Analysis for Security Posture Assessment and Remediation from Reach Security

Prepared by TAG Infosphere, this Executive Brief highlights ROI-driven results from Reach Security’s remediation and posture assessment platform.

January 29, 2026

Product Brief

Reach NIST SP 1800-35 Zero Trust Companion Guide

NIST Special Publication 1800–35 offers one of the most detailed and actionable roadmaps for implementing Zero Trust in complex, real-world environments.

January 29, 2026

Product Brief

Microsoft Security Optimization Solution Guide

January 27, 2026

Product Brief

Stop Configuration Drift Solution Guide

January 27, 2026

Product Brief

Threat Informed Defense Solution Guide

December 10, 2025

Product Brief

Human-centric Exposure Management Solution Guide

January 8, 2025

Product Brief

IAM Solution Guide

Product Brief

Network Visibility SSL Decryption Solution Guide

Product Brief

Most Attacked Solution Guide

Analyst Report

Reach Security Delivers 100–156% ROI, According to TAG Cyber

A new ROI analysis by trusted analyst firm TAG Cyber shows how Reach helps security leaders reduce exposure, reclaim time, and optimize their budgets.

Analyst Report

Configure → Drift → Breach → Repeat

Analyst Report

Reach Recognized in Gartner® Emerging Tech Report on Domain-Specific Language Models for SecOps

Whitepaper

Mythos Readiness Checklist

Will your security controls defend against AI-powered adversaries? Mythos has shown us how quickly AI is changing the speed and scale of cyberattacks. Download this Mythos Readiness Checklist to assess whether your controls are properly configured, enforced, and continuously validated to keep AI-powered adversaries at bay.

August 13, 2026

Whitepaper

Configuration Drift in the Age of AI

Reach analyzed a full year of anonymized production telemetry, more than 50 live environments, and millions of individual control observations to see how often real configurations drift from where they should be, and how much of that drift actually matters. The numbers are stark. The average environment generates 13 drift events a day, and 12 of them represent genuine, exploitable exposure. This report maps where that risk concentrates, the predictable danger zones (holiday freezes, patch cycles, end-of-week changes) where drift spikes hardest, and what separates teams that catch material exposure fast from the ones that let it sit for over a week.

August 12, 2026

Whitepaper

The Firewall Checklist

Network security controls drift every day. As rules get added and altered, risk gets buried in the rule base. Stale rules stay live, shadowed rules hide true exposure, and overly permissive any/any access sneaks into production.

August 12, 2026

Whitepaper

The ShinyHunters Checklist

Every major ShinyHunters attack in the past two years followed the same pattern. Attackers found openings created by security controls that were missing, overly permissive, or weakly enforced, and exploited them. ShinyHunters didn't break in. They walked through doors that were already unlocked. These same gaps sit, unnoticed, in most environments today. Use this checklist to see exactly where your organization stands, and whether you'd have survived if ShinyHunters came knocking at your door.

July 16, 2026

Whitepaper

Ten Hidden Cybersecurity Misconfigurations

April 16, 2026

Whitepaper

Evaluating AI for Security Architects

April 16, 2026

Whitepaper

Operationalizing AI for Security with Garrett Hamilton

June 3, 2025

Customer Story

Autodesk Case Study

February 23, 2026

Customer Story

Monolithic Power Systems Case Study

February 23, 2026

Customer Story

Insurity Case Study

February 23, 2026

Customer Story

Nutanix Case Study

February 23, 2026

Customer Story

Global MFG Co Case Study

February 22, 2026

Product Tour

Optimize Microsoft Entra ID and Conditional Access Controls

April 12, 2026

Product Tour

Optimize Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Controls

April 9, 2026

Product Tour

Stop Configuration Drift

Product Tour

Microsoft Security Optimization

Glossary

What Is Network Security Assurance?

Network security assurance helps teams continuously validate network security intent, detect drift and hidden exposure, and harden controls before gaps become exploitable.

July 1, 2026