How AI Increases the Security Risks of End-of-Life Software, and What You Can Do About It

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

End-of-life software with unpatched vulnerabilities offer low-hanging fruit for AI-assisted cyberattacks. Orchestrating defense in depth around unsupported systems can reduce the attack surface, strengthen detection and response, limit the blast radius, and buy defenders more time. Cybersecurity may be approaching a point where attacks move substantially faster than defenders can deflect and contain. Artificial intelligence […]

AI-Speed Vulnerability Exploitation, and Layered Security Countermeasures

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Artificial intelligence is changing more than the sophistication of cyber attacks—it is changing the speed of attacks. AI-speed vulnerability exploitation enables attackers to discover weaknesses, generate exploits, perform reconnaissance, and launch attacks in a fraction of the time previously required by human operators. As the defender’s response window shrinks, defense in depth cybersecurity becomes increasingly […]

Water Treatment Plant Security: Balancing OT Availability and Cybersecurity

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Improve water treatment plant security without disrupting OT operations through noninvasive cybersecurity controls. Water treatment plant security is under pressure again. After July 2026 coordinated cyberattacks disrupted municipal water facilities across at least 12 states and triggered federal warnings, utilities face a difficult question: how can they strengthen cybersecurity without disrupting the OT systems that […]

NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3: The Current Modern CUI Baseline

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

For government contractors and MSPs that store, process, or transmit Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3, published on May 14, 2024, provides a modern framework for strengthening security while preparing them for evolving federal cybersecurity requirements, including those that may be reflected in future CMMC and FedRAMP updates. Atomicorp delivers the endpoint […]

Atomicorp Blocked wp2shell Exploit Before It Had a Name

Posted on by Mike Shinn

CWE-first protection wins again. While the industry raced to publish emergency wp2shell detections, Atomicorp’s existing generic SQL injection and RCE protections were already positioned to stop the underlying attack behavior. wp2shell: The attack was new. The weakness was not. The wp2shell chain combines CVE-2026-63030, a WordPress REST batch-route interpretation conflict, with CVE-2026-60137, an SQL injection […]

Securing Unsupported Software With Layered Compensating Controls

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Unsupported software security—or a lack of it—has quietly become one of the greatest sources of cyber risk. While discussions often focus on legacy web applications, organizations rely on many kinds of software that can no longer be patched, upgraded, or supported. This includes not only internet-facing applications, but internal business systems, middleware, custom applications, industrial […]

Unsupported Windows Security: Protecting End-of-Life Systems

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Unsupported Windows systems continue to power manufacturing, healthcare, retail, OT, and critical business applications long after Microsoft support ends. Unfortunately, attackers don’t stop targeting these systems simply because the vendor has retired them. As security updates disappear and new vulnerabilities continue to emerge, organizations need compensating security controls that help reduce risk while extending the […]

Unix System Security: Real-Time FIM, CVE Detection, and Compliance for Legacy AIX and Solaris

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Atomicorp has expanded coverage for legacy Unix system security by delivering both real-time file integrity monitoring (FIM) and CVE detection and correlation for AIX and Solaris platforms. These extra-edge capabilities deliver the visibility, monitoring, and compliance controls organizations need to secure business-critical systems beyond vendor support lifecycles, reduce risk, and avoid operational disruption. Request a […]

Legacy and End-of-Life Solaris Vulnerability Detection

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Solaris Vulnerability Detection From Atomicorp  Decades after its introduction, Oracle Solaris still powers critical workloads in finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, and government environments where long system lifecycles are common. Yet securing these environments has become increasingly difficult as older Solaris versions move beyond vendor support. Unsupported Solaris systems often lack modern security visibility, receive no […]

Network Detection and Response for Underprotected Layers 3 and 4

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Need a network intrusion detection or network detection and response (NDR) system? Atomic OSSEC EDR secures many types of endpoints, including network components. Network endpoints are often “invisible infrastructure,” quietly handling critical communication and security functions while slipping past dashboards and monitoring tools. These trusted devices—routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and remote office equipment—are rarely interacted […]