Süleyman Özarslan

Inside many security programs, security teams are handed a finite stack of chips — time, staff, and budget — and are expected to make smart bets on where threats might emerge. Each decision is guided by theoretical risk scores like CVSS and EPSS, which label a high volume of vulnerabilities as urgent but offer little insight into what’s exploitable. The stakes are high, the pressure is constant, and the rules of the game don’t always reflect reality. In this setup, the house wins. The Problem When Every Risk Looks Critical In 2024, more than 40,000 CVEs were published, and nearly…

Cybersecurity exposure isn’t just about known vulnerabilities. It’s about the misconfigurations, control gaps and overlooked entry points that attackers use to move quietly through systems and compromise high-value assets. Traditional security approaches often focus on patching known issues and generating long lists of CVEs. But they don’t always reflect what attackers see or how they think. Enter Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), a framework coined by Gartner to continuously assess an organization’s attack surface, validate defenses, prioritize actions based on business risk, and manage remediation. CTEM is a strategic concept, not a single tool or product, designed to unify and…

The Netflix series Zero Day has Americans wondering how feasible an attack on critical infrastructure is. The simple answer? Very. While the show’s impeccably coordinated scenario is unprecedented, research confirms that in 2024, threat actors from Russia, China, and North Korea targeted critical infrastructure, government agencies, and private enterprises. These attacks highlight the growing use of state-sponsored cyber espionage to gain long-term access and steal data for geopolitical advantage. I won’t touch on the homeland conspiracy theories from the show but I will say that attacks on critical infrastructure are more than Hollywood speculation. Cybersecurity professionals have long warned of these threats, and recent…