Cybersecurity Tools & Guides
Each downloadable piece featured below is a fully-detailed, actionable resource that's part of a larger collection of cybersecurity content available to our clients in the IANS Insights Portal.
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Tools & Templates
Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
Tool Evaluation and Capability Tracking Template
This template helps track the capabilities of the tools in a tech stack, centered around an audit of each tool, covering both general areas and specific functionalities.
Chris Silvers
Tools & Templates
Management and Leadership
Information Security Job Description Templates
Streamline your security hiring with ready-to-use job descriptions for five critical roles, helping you set clear expectations and attract high-quality candidates faster.
IANS Research
Ask-An-Expert Writeup
Governance, Risk Management and Compliance
Streamline Cybersecurity Assessments
Move beyond one-size-fits-all security questionnaires to strengthen risk management, reduce assessment burden, and enable the business.
Taryn Swietek
Report
Security Strategy (Zero Trust, AI, Maturity)
IANS AI Security Update: Q3 2025
This quarterly report highlights the latest developments in AI security and reveals the economic, political, and social forces shaping what’s coming next.
Josh More
Briefing Replay
Management and Leadership
Emerging Issue Briefing Replay: React2Shell Vulnerability
In this emerging issue briefing, Jake Williams discusses the recently disclosed React vulnerability in React Server Components (CVE-2025-55182) with a CVSS score of 10.0, a critical flaw that lets attackers perform remote code execution on vulnerable servers using specially crafted requests.
Jake Williams
Tools and Templates
Application Testing (SAST/DAST)
Secure Coding Standards for App Development
Use this template to define clear, actionable security standards for your DevSecOps team which developers can consistently reference and implement.
Jason Gillam
Security Leadership Development
Executive Presence
Board Boot Camp: Building the Board Deck
In Board Boot Camp: Building Your Deck, we cover the distinct purpose of a board deck and how to adapt that purpose to subcommittees, tips for constructing the deck, including types of slides to include, and a timeline broken down to specific tasks to complete at each stage of developing your deck.
IANS
Briefing Replay
Management and Leadership
Emerging Issue Briefing Replay: Shai-Hulud 2.0 Supply Chain Attack
In this emerging issue briefing, we’ll delve into the new Shai-Hulud npm supply-chain attack that is compromising major packages, with victims reporting destructive action in their development environments.
Jake Williams
Ask-An-Expert Writeup
Application Development and Testing
Using Production Data in AI Development
This report explains how to enable AI development teams to safely use production data and warns against the temptation to allow production data in all development environments.
Jake Williams
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