2026 – Page 3 – TheCyberThrone

Cloudflare VDR and the CVE Tsunami: The Race from Discovery to Remediation

A few days ago, I wrote about the CVE Tsunami and the uncomfortable reality facing vulnerability management today. The problem isn't simply that vulnerabilities are increasing. It is that the…

PravinKarthik September 4, 2026

CISSP

CISSP Executive Briefing: The Efficiency Trap

When Optimization Quietly Creates Enterprise Fragility The Enterprise That Became Too Efficient A large organization decides to simplify its technology environment. Several data centers are consolidated. Applications move to a…

PravinKarthik September 3, 2026

CISA KEV

CISA Adds 7 Vulnerabilities to KEV: A New Wave of Actively Exploited Flaws

On September 2, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added seven vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, marking another reminder that the threat landscape is…

PravinKarthik September 3, 2026

CISO Journey

The CISO Journey – Part 6

Influence Without Authority As you move into senior security leadership, something changes. You no longer control everything that affects security. Applications belong to business teams.Infrastructure may belong to technology teams.Budgets…

PravinKarthik September 2, 2026

General

The CVE Tsunami: AI Can Find Them Faster. Can We Fix Them Faster?

2025 closed with roughly 48,000 published CVE records. By the end of August 2026, the NVD snapshot referenced in the recent analysis had already crossed 57,000, meaning that in just…

PravinKarthik September 2, 2026

Aesto Health Data Breach: 9.5 Million Individuals Impacted

Aesto Health, a U.S.-based healthcare data migration and archiving provider, has disclosed a major cybersecurity incident involving a portion of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The incident is now…

PravinKarthik September 1, 2026

CISSP

My CISSP Journey Part 4 – What My Wrong Answers Taught Me

During my CISSP preparation, I worked through nearly 6,000 practice questions. With that many questions, getting some of them wrong is inevitable. But somewhere along the way, I started looking…

PravinKarthik August 31, 2026

McKesson Data Breach 2026: What We Know So Far

McKesson Corporation has disclosed a cybersecurity incident that has raised concerns over the potential exposure of a large volume of healthcare and business data. The company discovered the incident on…

PravinKarthik August 31, 2026