by itogether-wp-admin | Oct 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR Maximum TLS certificate validity is falling in scheduled steps: 398 days, then 200 days (live since 15 March 2026), 100 days from 15 March 2027, and 47 days from 15 March 2029. Renewals per certificate rise from about one a year to nearly eight, and the schedule...
by itogether-wp-admin | Sep 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR The cyber security skills shortage is structural, not cyclical. ISC2 put the global workforce gap at 4.8 million professionals in 2024, a 19% year-on-year increase, and in the UK, DSIT’s 2025 labour market reportshows 49% of businesses have a basic cyber...
by itogether-wp-admin | Sep 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR New NCSC New Zealand research (published ahead of Cyber Smart Week, 5–11 October 2026) found 43% of SMEs now believe they’re vulnerable to a cyber attack, up from 34% a year ago, rising to 59% among businesses with 20 to 49 staff, the group also most...
by itogether-wp-admin | Sep 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR The average SOC processes around 11,000 alerts a day, but only about 22 per analyst genuinely warrant investigation. Nearly half of all alerts are false positives, and over 40% go entirely uninvestigated. This isn’t a minor inconvenience, it’s the...
by itogether-wp-admin | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
TL;DR True 24/7 SOC coverage needs 8 to 12 analysts across shifts, not the 2 to 3 headcount most mid-market budgets assume, pushing fully-loaded in-house cost into seven figures a year. Managed SOC services typically run 30 to 50% less, in the region of $60,000 to...
