Insights

Perspectives from the front lines of cybersecurity.

Practical writing from the team doing the work — application security, cloud attack paths, compliance readiness and secure software development. No filler, no fear-selling.

Application Security

What the OWASP Top 10 looks like in real assessments

Broken access control and injection still dominate findings — but the pattern behind them has changed. What we actually see when testing modern web applications.

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AI Security

AI features are your newest attack surface

LLM-powered features introduce prompt injection, data leakage and authorisation bypass paths that traditional testing does not cover. A practical checklist for engineering teams.

Softous Security Team

Cloud Security

How attackers actually move through cloud environments

Breaches rarely start with a sophisticated zero-day. They start with an over-privileged role, an exposed bucket and a chain of small misconfigurations. Understanding attack paths changes how you prioritise.

Softous Security Team

Security Strategy

Zero Trust, minus the marketing

Zero Trust is an architecture principle, not a product. What it means in practice for a mid-size organisation — and where to start without a seven-figure budget.

Softous Security Team

Compliance

ISO 27001 readiness: the gaps that fail first audits

Most first-audit failures are not technical. They are undocumented processes, untested controls and evidence that exists nowhere an auditor can find it.

Softous Security Team

Software Supply Chain

Your dependencies are someone else’s code

The average application is mostly third-party code. Practical steps to understand and reduce supply-chain exposure without grinding development to a halt.

Softous Security Team

Full articles are published progressively. Each piece is written and reviewed by our security team — we publish when the content meets our standard, not to fill a calendar. Summaries above reflect our current editorial programme.

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