Your Go-To Guide For Creating an Optimal Pentesting Report Template Deliver professional, client-ready penetration test reports using our proven structure and expert tips. If you hack in your free time and run penetration tests without a sweat, but dread the pentesting report, this blog is for you. Not everyone is as passionate about pentest reporting as we are. But there’s something about the fresh ink… READ ARTICLE
Preparing for DORA: How Cybersecurity Teams Can Face the Digital Operational Resilience Act with PlexTrac Introduction As promised in the original Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) timeline, the regulation is now in effect across the European Union. This marks a significant step forward in how financial institutions and their technology partners are expected to manage and mitigate cybersecurity risk. But DORA is more than just another regulation, it’s a mandate… READ ARTICLE
Better Together: CTEM Vendors That Play Nice—and Win Big—Together Exploring NodeZero, Pentera, and PlexTrac for next-gen threat management. Let’s be honest, the cybersecurity tools in your belt keep growing. Then again, so do the cyber threats. How do you find the best tools for your organization and ensure they keep your threat levels at an all-time low and your security posture at your all-time… READ ARTICLE
The Most Popular Penetration Testing Tools in 2025: 30 Products to Support Your Pentesting Efforts This Year Penetration testing is a crucial part of cybersecurity and involves finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in networks, applications, systems, or physical environments before the bad actors can. Penetration testing also plays a key role in continuous threat exposure management. Point-in-time testing is no longer enough, and continuous penetration testing is key to effectively identifying and mitigating… READ ARTICLE
The CVE Program Regains Funding: A Critical Juncture for Global Cybersecurity If you’ve spent any amount of time in cybersecurity, you’ve likely encountered the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Program. It’s a foundational piece of how we identify and talk about security vulnerabilities as an industry. Over the past 24–36 hours, the cybersecurity world has been buzzing with updates about the future of this essential program. … READ ARTICLE
What the CVE Funding Scare Exposed About the State of Vulnerability Management The CVE program is vital, but recent events are a reminder that security strategies must go far beyond known vulnerabilities. The potential defunding of the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) program over the past 24 hours sparked widespread concern — and understandably so. While I was fairly confident this situation would be resolved, the reaction… READ ARTICLE
Introducing PlexTrac for CTEM: Proactively Manage Exposure Risk Gartner’s Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework is all the rage right now. Everyone’s talking about the need for continuous security testing and tossing around “CTEM” as the buzzword. But what is CTEM? As described in our Conversational Continuous Threat Exposure Management eBook written by Derek A. Smith (CCISO, CISSP) and our founder, Dan DeCloss,… READ ARTICLE
Cut Through the Noise: How Risk-Based Prioritization Helps You Focus on What Matters Most Risk-based prioritization turns your pile of vulnerability data into clear, actionable insights that help you make smarter decisions. READ ARTICLE
Salt Typhoon Exposed: A Deep Dive Into a State-Sponsored Cyber Threat To combat this growing threat, organizations should implement zero-trust security models, enforce strict network segmentation, and deploy advanced threat detection solutions such as AI-driven anomaly detection. READ ARTICLE
7 Common Pitfalls of Penetration Testing Reports It’s possible to uncover all kinds of vulnerabilities with helpful recommendations for patching and hardening, but those insights can easily be overlooked if they are not effectively compiled. READ ARTICLE
Vulnerability Assessment vs Penetration Testing: Understanding the Key Differences Vulnerability Assessment vs Penetration Testing READ ARTICLE