Insights into the computer security industry, including evaluations of security service providers, product comparisons, and guidance on selecting the right vendors. Understand what top computer security companies offer and how to assess solutions for your specific needs.
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The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot in Cybersecurity Spending In 2024, global cybersecurity spending surpassed $215 billion. Organizations bought firewalls, endpoint detection, SIEM platforms, and managed services from every major vendor on the planet. And breaches still hit record numbers. The Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 68% of breaches
The Blind Spot That Computer Security Companies Sell Around In March 2022, Okta — one of the most prominent identity management vendors in the world — confirmed that the Lapsus$ threat actor group had compromised a third-party support engineer's laptop and accessed internal systems. An identity security company, breached through
Colonial Pipeline just paid $4.4 million in ransom to a criminal group called DarkSide — and they had a security vendor. SolarWinds, a company that literally sold security monitoring tools, became the vector for one of the most devastating supply chain attacks in history. If massive organizations with million-dollar security
The Breach That $300K in Security Tools Didn't Stop In 2023, a mid-sized healthcare firm in the Midwest spent over $300,000 annually on products from multiple computer security companies. Endpoint detection, SIEM, email gateway filtering — the full stack. Then an employee clicked a phishing link inside a
