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Why EDR Isn’t Enough in 2026: The Rise of Preemptive Hypervisor Security
EDR vs hypervisor security has become one of the most critical debates in enterprise defense as threats move deeper into virtualized infrastructure. For years, enterprise security strategies have been built around a familiar assumption:...
You’re Hardened, Segmented, and Still at Risk: The Hypervisor Blindspot in Financial Institutions
What Is an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) & What Do They Mean for Virtualized Infrastructure?
What is an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)? Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) describes an adversary, often state-sponsored but not always, that uses skilled operators and significant resources to gain access to a specific...
As Workloads Move Back On-Prem, Hypervisors Emerge as a Quiet Mid-Market Risk
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Preemptive Security Explained: How to Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats
Imagine locking your front door after a burglar has already walked through your house. Now imagine doing that with your critical infrastructure. That’s how reactive cybersecurity operates. You get alerted after something bad has already...
Podcast: Cybersecurity Matters – Hypervisor Security & Team Building
In Episode 61 of the Cybersecurity Matters Podcast, Austin Gadient—CTO and Co-Founder of Vali Cyber—shares the real-world experiences that led him from competitive hacking at the U.S. Air Force Academy to securing national satellite...
The CISO’s Guide to Preemptive Hypervisor Security in 2026
As we head into 2026, one thing has become clear in the last year: attackers are changing tactics, and our defenses need to evolve with them. Virtualization infrastructure, the hypervisor layer in particular, has emerged as a high-impact...
How the Grinch Stole ESXi: A Scattered Spider Threat Actor Round- Up
Scattered Spider may not live on Mount Crumpit, but their playbook for stealing Christmas—and your virtual infrastructure—would make even the Grinch proud. Join Joseph Comps, Threat Intelligence Analyst at Vali Cyber, for a deep dive into...
BRICKSTORM: Nation-State Operators Are Moving Into the Hypervisor Layer
The December 2025 CISA/NSA/Cyber Centre analysis of BRICKSTORM represents one of the clearest signals yet that hypervisors have become priority targets for state-backed cyber operations. The report attributes BRICKSTORM to PRC...
Enhance VCF 9 Security with ZeroLock®
As organizations continue to adopt VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, security remains a top priority. Hypervisors are an increasingly critical layer which—if compromised—can give attackers complete control over the environment. VCF 9 has...
End of Year Review: Why Virtualization is Falling into the C-Suite Spotlight
When attackers reach the virtualization layer, they gain control of the systems that run the entire business. This unfortunate scenario has occurred exponentially in recent years as threat actors discover that the hypervisor remains the...
Everything You Need to Know About Hypervisors
Virtualization changed everything about how modern computing works, but most people have no idea what’s happening under the hood. Before virtualization, companies had to buy a separate physical machine for every single application they...
How ZeroLock Mitigates BRICKSTORM: Securing VMware Against Advanced Threats
BRICKSTORM is a custom-made malware family recently being used by suspected state-aligned threat actors out of China. Some of the binary files associated with BRICKSTORM appear to have been made specifically to target vCenter servers and...
Podcast: What Is Hypervisor Security – and Why Attackers Care Now?
In this episode of The CyberVault, Austin Gadient, Co-Founder and CTO of Vali Cyber, breaks down why attackers are targeting the hypervisor, how groups like Scattered Spider are reaching deeper into virtualized environments, and why...
Presentation: B-Sides NYC
The intricate architecture of hypervisors, while providing remarkable flexibility and scalability for enterprise-level operations, also represents one of the most critical under-protected attack surfaces existing today. This concurrently...
CISOs: Lead the Charge in Virtualization Security in 2026
CISOs have spent the last decade hardening endpoints, identities, and cloud workloads. Yet for many organizations, the hypervisor remains dangerously exposed. Over the past four years, hypervisor-specific ransomware has driven an...