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The CISO's Inheritance: Taking Command of a Stack You Didn't Build
A live session for new-in-post CISOs: see how an inherited security stack becomes a board-ready plan with ESProfiler's Security Reality Baseline.
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The New CISO's First 90 Days: A Security Stack Checklist
A 12-week checklist for new CISOs reviewing an inherited security stack: inventory, framework coverage, overlap and board reporting, without breaking anything.
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Why the Capability Matrix Doesn't Age Well
The capability matrix takes weeks to build and months to go wrong. Why 'what breaks if removed' is the first column to fail, and what that costs at renewal.
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The Four Problems Every New CISO Inherits
Board pressure, an unmapped stack, shadow AI, and a trust budget already draining. The four problems every new CISO inherits, and the one thing they share.
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Six Questions Every Security Stack Should Answer
Boards, auditors, and procurement expect answers about the security stack in days, not weeks. Six questions every estate should answer at any time.
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iCOUNTER: Cyber Risk Intelligence Breakdown
iCOUNTER builds threat intelligence around one customer at a time. How the cyber risk intelligence model works and why its direction is third-party risk.

What Dashboards Can't See: The Tribal Knowledge Behind Your Security Stack
Security's most important context is rarely in dashboards or documents. It lives in people's heads: the workarounds, gaps, assumptions, fragile controls, and implementation realities that shape how a security stack actually works. Tribal Layer captures that knowledge and turns it into intelligence teams can act on.

Introducing Notebooks: The Future of Security Reporting
ESProfiler has launched "Notebooks", our new just-in-time, generative UI. No fixed layouts, no manual assembly. Just say what you need, and get instant, intelligent insights built around exactly what you need to know, presented in the cleanest and most intuitive format.


The Hidden Cost of Security Tool Overlap
Why your security stack probably covers less than you think, and costs more than it should.

Mate Security: The Pre-Built Context Model in AI SOC
Mate Security builds a per-organisation context graph its AI SOC agents investigate against, instead of rebuilding context on every alert. A breakdown.

YAL.ai: AI Fraud Prevention Vendor Breakdown
YAL.ai is a pre-launch AI scam and fraud protection app. Why a fast-growing consumer vendor belongs on an enterprise security radar.

XBOW: autonomous offensive security, with the proof attached
XBOW is the first autonomous system to top HackerOne's US leaderboard. A look at the validation layer behind its AI penetration testing and its momentum.

AI-Enabled Cyberattacks Are Moving Post-Compromise: What It Means for Your Security Stack
Anthropic's year-long study found AI-enabled attackers doubling and moving inside the network. Here is what it changes for post-compromise readiness.
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Armadin: AI Red-Teaming Vendor Breakdown
Armadin, Kevin Mandia's AI red-teaming startup, tops June's Market Momentum. What the platform does, who built it, and the consolidation question for CISOs.

Tribal Layer: Capture Your Security Stack's Hidden Context
Tribal Layer captures the hidden human context behind your security stack, turning tribal knowledge into structured intelligence for better risk, procurement and technology decisions.

Artemis Security: AI-Native SIEM Vendor Breakdown
Artemis Security was featured in the Capability Exchange Market Momentum ranking after a $70M raise. A breakdown of its AI-native SIEM platform and market bet.

ESProfiler launches Capability Exchange
ESProfiler launches Capability Exchange: an independent registry of security vendors, products, and capabilities. Dive into the new product!
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A CISO's guide to Infosec Europe 2026
How CISOs can walk Infosec Europe 2026 with a clear evaluation framework. Vendor questions, AI claims, and what to do at the end of day one.

ESProfiler at Infosecurity Europe 2026
We'll be exhibiting at Infosecurity Europe at ExCeL London from 2 to 4 June, at booth G165.
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Get ahead with Decision Windows
Security organisations are ever-evolving and changing, we have customers operating a security stack of 100's of individual security products, the operational overheads of this are enormous, and with Decision Windows, ESProfiler makes sure you're never overwhelmed, and are making smarter renewal decisions.

What Claude Mythos Means for Your Security Stack
Why the capability frontier is shifting faster than the stack can adapt, and how security leaders can react.
Read articleFrom Spend to Strategy: Turning Portfolio Complexity Into Board Confidence
Join us for a 45-minute session covering security portfolio gap analysis, framework mapping, and real-time vendor capability tracking.
Read articleIntroducing Universal Framework Support
Agents that autonomously model your security portfolio to any framework, consistently and at scale.
The First Year as a CISO
Stepping into a CISO role at a large enterprise is rarely about starting from scratch. The challenge is inheriting scale.
Introducing Agent Tasks
Agents that dramatically reduce the dog work in tasks like security consolidation
Introducing Our New Agentic Core
I’m pleased to introduce the next evolution of our platform: a team of AI agents built to help security leaders get the business of security done.
ESPROFILER Joins Google for Growth Academy
ESPROFILER joins Google for Startups Growth Academy to advance AI-driven cybersecurity, optimizing security investments and empowering businesses globally.
Herding the Cyber Security Market
One of the first big challenges we set our sights on at ESPROFILER is the difficulty of understanding and defining what security products actually do.
