Enterprise Threat Intelligence Buying Guide: How to Choose the Right Solution
ANY.RUN published a buyer's guide for enterprise threat intelligence platforms, outlining evaluation criteria and promoting its own TI products.
ANY.RUN, whose sandbox, TI Lookup, and TI Feeds products are featured throughout, published guidance for selecting an enterprise threat intelligence provider. The guide recommends defining SOC or MSSP requirements first, then weighing intelligence quality and freshness, integrations including STIX/TAXII support, privacy, scalability, and proof-of-concept testing with real alerts. It emphasizes context and enrichment over raw data volume, citing figures such as TI Lookup results in about 2 seconds and 99% validated IOCs in its feeds.
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 1, 2026
Help Net Security's September 1, 2026 roundup lists cybersecurity job openings at Google, Barclays, HUMAN and others across the US, Europe and Asia.
The weekly jobs roundup lists openings including a Google Security Engineer (Professional Services) role in the USA, a Cryptography Operations Engineer at Barclays in the UK, a Backend Engineer at HUMAN in Israel, and an AI Security Engineer at CPX in the UAE. Other listed roles span SOC analysis, SIEM engineering, cloud security, and network security across the USA, Ireland, India, Italy and Australia.
The 12 Best Managed XDR Services, Compared and Priced
A comparison of twelve managed XDR providers covering pricing models, telemetry breadth, and distinguishing genuine MXDR from rebranded MDR services.
The article compares twelve managed XDR providers including Bitdefender, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Unit 42, Trend Micro, Fortinet, Secureworks Taegis, Stellar Cyber, Ontinue, and ReliaQuest, highlighting pricing models and telemetry breadth. It explains that genuine MXDR must actively monitor identity, cloud, and email telemetry rather than merely ingest it, and typically costs 30-60% more than endpoint-only MDR. It also notes Sophos completed its approximately $859 million acquisition of Secureworks in February 2025.
Top 10 Best Patch Management Software in 2026
Roundup ranks 2026 patch management software, favoring Automox, Action1's free tier and Tanium, and warns buyers to vet patching platform security.
This buyer's guide ranks ten patch management tools for 2026, placing Automox first for cloud-native patching, Action1 for a genuinely free small-estate tier and Tanium for patching hundreds of thousands of endpoints. It contextualizes the category with the 2021 Kaseya VSA ransomware supply-chain incident and the 2020 SolarWinds Orion compromise, arguing the security of the patching platform itself must be part of evaluation. It also notes Ivanti products have repeatedly appeared in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
The 12 Best Extended Detection & Response (XDR) Platforms, Compared and Priced
Buyer's guide compares 12 XDR platforms, favoring Microsoft Defender XDR, Stellar Cyber and CrowdStrike, and warns ingestion pricing inflates costs.
The article compares 12 extended detection and response platforms, distinguishing native XDR (CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Microsoft Defender XDR, SentinelOne) from open XDR (Stellar Cyber, Arctic Wolf, Rapid7). It argues data ingestion pricing, not per-endpoint fees, is the main budget risk and should be modeled before signing. It repeats the consolidation note that Sophos acquired Secureworks for approximately $859 million in February 2025, and flags that ExtraHop is NDR rather than full XDR.