Cybersecurity Research & Insights
Explore ISE perspectives on penetration testing, social engineering, AI security, and practical defenses.
Social engineering works by exploiting trust, urgency, and familiar decision-making shortcuts. Attackers impersonate authority figures, offer unsolicited help, or manufacture ...
Social Engineering
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Like a lot of folks working in security research and coding, especially those just getting into it, I got tired of the subscription pay-as-you-go cloud models. Every time I ran ...
AI Security
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For years, cybercriminals have relied on automation to scale their attacks. Today, AI is enabling attackers to work faster, personalize attacks, generate code, analyze targets, ...
AI Security
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LLMs take user input and spit out a non-deterministic response based on what the user requests of them. This means that the same user can ask the same question and possibly get ...
AI Security
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The journey of an unethical hacker is rarely just a story of someone advancing their knowledge and technical skills. Rather, it’s more like a rewiring of their brain. What starts ...
Social Engineering
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Boardroom conversations are shifting. AI is being rapidly adopted by companies around the world to optimize productivity, accelerate production lifecycles, and automate mundane ...
AI Security
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A few years ago, my colleagues and I attended one of the several large cybersecurity conferences held across the country every year. Back then, Chat GPT was new and novel. ...
AI Security
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During my time at ISE, I have scoped out a lot of pen tests. I’ve scoped so many, the details start to blur. But while the fine details may fade over time, I see a few problems ...
Penetration Testing
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Working at an ethical hacking company means that team meetings, lunches, and social outings are filled with conversations on the latest tech, current tools and techniques for ...
AI Security
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Introduction Vulnerabilities don’t just sit quietly on the bench. They can and will be exploited if left unchecked. Today’s attackers no longer need elite-level skills either. ...
Penetration Testing
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