awareness  |  cybersecurity  |  opentelemetry

Security dashboards go dark: why visibility isn't optional, even when your defenses keep running

The SentinelOne outage showed why visibility isn’t optional—​even when your defenses keep running. On May 29, 2025, organizations running SentinelOne experienced something unsettling: their security controls kept working, but they couldn’t see what was happening. A software flaw in SentinelOne’s infrastructure control system caused a global service disruption that lasted several hours. According to reports, the incident significantly impacted customers' ability to manage their security operations and access important data.

awareness  |  cybersecurity

The GeoServer breach that could have been stopped in hours, not weeks

How a federal agency’s monitoring gaps turned a containable incident into a three-week nightmare In September 2025, CISA responded to a federal agency breach that security teams could have stopped in hours. Instead, threat actors roamed the network undetected for three weeks. The damage? Multiple compromised servers, web shells planted across the infrastructure, and a persistent foothold that took significant resources to remediate. The root cause wasn’t a zero-day exploit or sophisticated malware.

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Looking beyond Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Cybersecurity Awareness Month has come and gone again. October marks that festive time of year when companies circulate their mandatory think pieces, remind their employees of the dangers of clicking questionable links, and pat themselves on the back and call it a day. Here’s your friendly November reminder to keep your wits about you year-round. A (brief) history of Cybersecurity Awareness Month The Cybersecurity Awareness Month story began as a partnership between an American governmental agency—​the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA)--and the National Cyber Security Alliance non-profit.