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12 Best DSPM Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

A 2026 buyer's guide compares 12 DSPM vendors' features and pricing, warning per-TB data-volume billing inflates long-term cloud security costs.

The article compares 12 data security posture management (DSPM) tools, including Palo Alto Networks (Dig), BigID, Wiz, Symmetry Systems, Varonis, CrowdStrike (Flow Security), Cyera, and Tenable (Eureka), focusing on billing models such as per-TB scanning, per-data-store, per-identity, and pay-as-you-go. It highlights vendor consolidation through acquisitions and advises negotiating scan-volume caps and clarifying whether shadow copies and dev clones count as billable data.

GBHackers · 1h agoIndustry 3 sources

America’s cyber strategy overlooks the infrastructure that actually keeps the military moving

Op-ed argues US cyber strategy underweights Iranian threats to ports, rail, utilities and other commercial infrastructure sustaining military operations.

The author, a former Navy intelligence officer, argues that a prolonged Iran conflict means sustained Iranian cyber operations targeting many smaller systems like water utilities, manufacturers and transportation providers. He cites mapping of 130 documented techniques across five Iranian threat groups and warns destructive attacks such as wipers and ransomware could hit the defense industrial base. The piece urges defensive wargames now and flags the pause in CMMC implementation as particularly concerning.

CyberScoop · 2h agoIndustry

12 Serverless Security Options Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

A buyer-focused comparison of twelve serverless security offerings concludes no standalone SKU is worth buying in 2026, with function protection bundled inside CNAPP contracts.

The scorecard compares twelve serverless security options on function-protection depth, pricing visibility, platform attach economics, multi-runtime coverage, and vendor viability. Microsoft Defender for Cloud tops the weighted scores at 4.75, with Prisma Cloud at 4.60 and Datadog at 4.55 noted for publishing clean per-function rates. The piece warns that Thundra and Epsagon are defunct and that most vendors bill functions inside platform units where costs are hard to see. It also references the Aqua Security Trivy supply chain incident and Google's finalized acquisition of Wiz as market context.

GBHackers · 3h agoIndustry 12 sources

A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage

vCISO Cheri Hotman advises sorting security spend into four buckets to hold coverage steady under flat or cut budgets.

Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, shares advice for security leaders facing flat budgets or 12% cuts in a Help Net Security video. She recommends categorizing each expense as effective protection, unoperationalized value, duplicate tooling, or compliance theater instead of trimming every line equally. She notes waste such as companies running three or four GRC tools, and says framing spending in risk and revenue terms improves finance conversations.

Help Net Security · 7h agoIndustry

Virtual Event Today: Attack Surface Management Summit

SecurityWeek's 2026 Attack Surface Management Summit runs today as a virtual event covering asset discovery, SBOMs, red teaming, and pen-testing.

SecurityWeek is hosting its fully virtual 2026 Attack Surface Management Summit from 11AM-3PM, focused on continuous asset discovery, prioritization, and risk reduction. Sessions cover proving exploitability, SBOM and AIBOM software supply chain risk with Dr. Allan Friedman, demos from Wiz and Horizon3's NodeZero, and the roles of red teaming, bug bounty, and penetration testing in enterprise defense.

SecurityWeek · 21h agoIndustry