Knowledge Base

Research & White Papers

Peer-reviewed research and threat intelligence from the ITSG Research Committee and member contributors.

Threat Landscape

The 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report

Dr. Amara Okafor & ITSG Research Committee · Jan 2026

A comprehensive analysis of ransomware, supply-chain, and identity-based attacks observed across 40+ countries in the past year, with forward-looking projections.

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Zero Trust

Operationalizing Zero Trust in Hybrid Enterprises

Marcus Lindqvist · Feb 2026

A practical maturity model for implementing zero-trust architecture across legacy and cloud-native environments without disrupting operations.

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Cloud Security

Misconfiguration: The Silent Cloud Breach

Priya Raman · Mar 2026

An empirical study of 10,000 cloud environments revealing the most common misconfigurations and a prioritized remediation framework.

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AI in Security

LLMs in the SOC: Promise and Peril

Kenji Watanabe · Mar 2026

Evaluating large language models for alert triage and threat hunting, including measured accuracy gains and new prompt-injection risks.

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Compliance

Navigating the EU AI Act for Security Teams

Sophie Müller · Apr 2026

A compliance roadmap translating the EU AI Act's requirements into concrete controls for security and risk functions.

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Threat Landscape

Ransomware Economics in 2026

Sentinel Research Group · Apr 2026

Following the money: how ransomware-as-a-service affiliate models have evolved and what defenders can learn from payment data.

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Cloud Security

Securing Kubernetes at Scale

Stratus Cloud Labs · May 2026

Hardening guidance for multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters covering admission control, network policy, and supply-chain integrity.

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AI in Security

Adversarial Machine Learning Threats

Dr. Elena Castillo · May 2026

A taxonomy of attacks against ML systems — evasion, poisoning, and model extraction — with defensive countermeasures.

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Zero Trust

Identity as the New Perimeter

Rajesh Krishnan · Jun 2026

Why identity-centric security is displacing the network perimeter, and how to build continuous authentication into everyday workflows.

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Compliance

SOC 2 for Startups: A Field Guide

David Achieng · Jun 2026

A lean approach to achieving SOC 2 Type II readiness for resource-constrained teams, with a control-mapping template.

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Threat Landscape

The Rise of Supply-Chain Attacks

ITSG Research Committee · Jul 2026

Dissecting recent software supply-chain compromises and presenting an SBOM-driven defense strategy.

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Cloud Security

Confidential Computing Comes of Age

Lucas Santos · Jul 2026

An assessment of hardware-based trusted execution environments and their practical role in protecting data in use.

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