Cybersecurity pillar

Threat intelligence, controls, and response roadmaps

Zeph Tech tracks verifiable advisories, regulatory deadlines, and incident tradecraft so security leaders can brief executives and operators with confidence.

Expect coverage on SIEM vendor economics, Zero Trust network access, NIST CSF 2.0 adoption, NIS2 implementation, PCI DSS 4.0 readiness, and emerging detection techniques.

Latest cybersecurity briefings

Briefings cite primary sources—CISA advisories, NIST publications, EU legislation, vendor incident reports, and audit findings.

Cybersecurity · Credibility 94/100 · · 5 min read

Cybersecurity Governance Briefing — September 30, 2025

Zeph Tech reviews the SEC’s first full filing cycle under the 2023 cybersecurity disclosure rule, surfacing comment-letter themes and control evidence registrants need before FY2025 reporting.

  • SEC cybersecurity disclosure
  • Form 10-K
  • Incident response
  • Regulation S-K
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 100/100 · · 6 min read

Cybersecurity Briefing — June 30, 2025

Zeph Tech delivers the Windows 10 end-of-support runbook so enterprises hit Microsoft’s 14 October 2025 deadline without leaving regulated endpoints unpatched.

  • Windows 10 end of support
  • Endpoint security
  • Patch management
  • Microsoft
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 100/100 · · 4 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — May 12, 2025

Zeph Tech outlines a 2025 quantum-ready encryption playbook, balancing immediate certificate rotation with supplier attestation workflows anchored to NIST CSF 2.0 PR.AA and ISO/IEC 27001 A.10.

  • Post-quantum cryptography
  • NIST CSF 2.0
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Certificate management
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 77/100 · · 5 min read

Cybersecurity Briefing — April 29, 2025

Financial institutions subject to New York's 23 NYCRR 500 must meet the April 29, 2025 phase-two compliance deadline, closing privileged access, asset inventory, and monitoring gaps introduced by the second amendment.

  • NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500
  • Financial regulation
  • Privileged access
  • Continuous monitoring
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 94/100 · · 4 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — April 28, 2025

Enterprises are refreshing identity trust fabrics; Zeph Tech maps cross-cloud posture workstreams to NIST SP 800-207 and CSA CCM IAM-09.

  • Zero trust
  • Conditional access
  • Identity governance
  • Passkeys
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 100/100 · · 4 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — April 21, 2025

OT ransomware crews pivot to operational data stores; Zeph Tech delivers containment patterns mapped to NIST SP 800-82 and IEC 62443-3-3 SR 5.

  • OT ransomware
  • NIST SP 800-82
  • IEC 62443
  • Industrial security
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 100/100 · · 4 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — April 14, 2025

Collaboration stacks are converging voice, video, and workflow data; Zeph Tech highlights guardrails anchored to ISO/IEC 27701 7.3 and CIS Control 14.

  • Collaboration security
  • ISO/IEC 27701
  • CIS Control 14
  • Insider threat
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 100/100 · · 4 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — April 7, 2025

Cloud-native threat hunting now requires deep observability on serverless and edge workloads; Zeph Tech maps priorities to MITRE D3FEND and CIS Control 8.

  • Cloud-native security
  • MITRE D3FEND
  • CIS Controls
  • Serverless threat hunting
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 100/100 · · 4 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — March 31, 2025

Payment fraud analytics vendors now plug into customer data lakes; Zeph Tech recommends governance tied to PCI DSS v4.0 Requirement 10 and FFIEC CAT Domain 3.

  • Fraud analytics
  • PCI DSS v4.0
  • FFIEC CAT
  • Third-party risk
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 99/100 · · 4 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — March 31, 2025

March 31, 2025 marks the end of the PCI DSS 4.0 transition period, making formerly ‘best practice’ controls mandatory for service providers and merchants.

  • PCI DSS v4.0
  • Payment security
  • Targeted risk analysis
  • Multi-factor authentication
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 94/100 · · 5 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — March 24, 2025

Critical infrastructure operators face blended IT/OT intrusions; Zeph Tech aligns detection modernization with CISA Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals and NERC CIP-007-6.

  • Critical infrastructure detection
  • CISA CPG
  • NERC CIP-007-6
  • IT/OT convergence
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 94/100 · · 5 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — January 17, 2025

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is now enforceable, requiring financial entities and critical ICT providers to evidence incident response, testing, and third-party governance.

  • DORA
  • EU financial regulation
  • ICT risk management
  • Operational resilience
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 79/100 · · 5 min read

Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Briefing — December 11, 2024

ENISA's Threat Landscape 2024 report details ransomware dominance, hacktivist campaigns, and supply chain weak points European defenders must fold into 2025 planning.

  • ENISA Threat Landscape
  • Ransomware
  • Hacktivism
  • Supply chain security
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 53/100 · · 6 min read

Zero Trust Network Access Platform Comparison — October 22, 2024

Zscaler, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, and Okta lead 2025 Zero Trust roadmaps with mature policy engines, telemetry, and compliance coverage.

  • Zero Trust
  • ZTNA
  • Zscaler Private Access
  • Cloudflare Zero Trust
  • Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
  • Cisco Secure Access
  • Okta Identity Governance
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • NIST 800-207
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 53/100 · · 7 min read

Best SIEM Platforms for Regulated Enterprises — October 21, 2024

Splunk ES, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, Securonix, and Elastic remain the leading SIEM options for enterprises that must document control coverage across SOC 2, PCI DSS 4.0, and NIS2.

  • SIEM
  • SOC 2
  • PCI DSS 4.0
  • NIS2
  • Splunk
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • IBM QRadar
  • Securonix
  • Elastic Security
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 99/100 · · 4 min read

Cyber Resilience Briefing — October 18, 2024

EU Member States must transpose the NIS2 Directive by October 18, 2024, triggering new reporting, governance, and supply chain duties across essential and important entities.

  • NIS2 Directive
  • Incident reporting
  • Governance accountability
  • ISO/IEC 27001
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Cybersecurity · Credibility 100/100 · · 6 min read

Cybersecurity Briefing — September 19, 2024

CISA escalated Apple CVE-2024-41077 and CVE-2024-41078 into the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after spyware targeting, directing agencies to deploy the September 11 iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari patches by October 10.

  • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
  • Apple security updates
  • Mobile device management
  • Spyware detection
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Featured buyer intelligence

Program guardrails

Framework alignment

Crosswalk CIS Controls, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and sector regulations to maintain audit-ready evidence.

Detection priorities

Operationalize MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND techniques using the playbooks linked in each briefing.

Incident communications

Equip executives and regulators with clear language rooted in the same facts captured in our nightly research.

2023–2025 cybersecurity calendar

Zeph Tech’s security desk keeps regulated teams on pace for every major framework and threat bulletin. The monthly checkpoints below extend from April 2023 through March 2025.

  1. April 2023

    Bring engineering and product leaders into compliance with the CISA secure-by-design principles so new releases ship hardened by default.

  2. December 2023

    Rehearse Form 8-K Item 1.05 disclosures with our SEC cybersecurity rule briefing so materiality determinations meet the four-business-day deadline.

  3. April 2024

    Determine CIRCIA covered-entity status with Zeph Tech’s NPRM breakdown and implement telecom identity safeguards from the CSRB Lapsus$ investigation.

  4. May 2024

    Finish mapping program charters to NIST CSF 2.0, updating governance boards before budget submissions.

  5. June 2024

    Close secure-by-design remediation items using the vendor accountability scorecard.

  6. July 2024

    Deploy the OpenSSH regression response plan, PRC living-off-the-land hunting, and OT segmentation guidance.

  7. August 2024

    Monitor PRC tradecraft via the joint CISA/FBI advisory mapping while preparing disclosure committee responses using the SEC comment letter analysis.

  8. September 2024

    Ready EU programs for the NIS2 transposition deadline and document board briefings.

  9. October 2024

    Use Zeph Tech’s Zero Trust platform comparison and SIEM benchmark to negotiate FY25 renewals.

  10. November 2024

    Document residual risk and detection debt uncovered during October vendor negotiations so regulators see quantified roadmaps.

  11. December 2024

    Brief boards on Digital Operational Resilience Act requirements using the January enforcement checklist.

  12. January 2025

    Kick off DORA control uplift alongside third-party fraud analytics governance planning.

  13. February 2025

    Validate critical infrastructure detection pipelines using the threat hunting brief.

  14. March 2025

    Execute PCI DSS 4.0 and fraud analytics final-mile tasks.