Priyanka has 10+ years of experience in Strategy, Community Building & Inbound Marketing and through CISO Platform has earlier worked with marketing teams of IBM, VMware, F5 Networks, Barracuda Network, Checkpoint, and more. Priyanka is passionate about Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Marketing Strategy. Earlier she co-founded CISO Platform- the world’s 1st online platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing among senior information security executives.
Every quarter a new three-letter acronym shows up in a vendor deck. Last year it was AEV. This year Gartner introduced COST. CTEM is everywhere. BAS has been around forever and still gets confused with red teaming. Pen test means six different things depending on who you ask. If you run a security program, the… Read More »BAS, CTEM, CART, Pen Test, VA, AEV, COST: What Each Actually Does, and When to Use What
A CISO’s reference for evaluating modern web app pentesting programs, what AI actually changes, and how to tell platforms apart from LLM wrappers. Quick Answer Web application penetration testing in 2026 looks structurally different from the annual consulting model most enterprises still run. The shift is driven by three mismatches: applications change daily but get… Read More »Web Application Penetration Testing in 2026: A Practical Guide for CISOs
In early 2025, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, CVE-2025-0108, was discovered in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the PAN-OS management interface by exploiting a path confusion issue between Nginx and Apache. With a high severity rating, this vulnerability poses a significant risk to organizations… Read More »CVE-2025-0108: How Attackers Exploit Palo Alto PAN-OS: Are You Vulnerable?
The cybersecurity landscape is evolving rapidly, and so is our FireCompass PTaaS platform. Our research team remains dedicated to empowering security teams with PTaaS, Continuous Automated Red Teaming( CART), Automated Pen Testing and advanced risk monitoring. Here’s a quick look at what’s new this month! CISO Dashboard: Compare Your Security Posture Our new CISO Dashboard provides customers… Read More »What’s New at FireCompass: CISO Dashboard, 799 New Vulnerabilities, 50+ Attack Trees
In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, a stark new reality has emerged: the window for exploiting vulnerabilities has drastically reduced to an average of just three days. This alarming trend, highlighted in recent analyses by Mandiant and other security experts, underscores an urgent need for organizations to revamp their vulnerability management strategies to combat increasingly sophisticated… Read More »Time to Exploit Vulnerabilities Now Just 3 Days