Cybersecurity hiring guides, InfoSec talent market analysis, security engineer salary benchmarks, and strategies for building cybersecurity teams that protect against evolving threats in cloud, network, and application security.
Which IT projects cost more to stop than to finish (security remediation, ERP cutovers, end-of-support platforms like Windows Server 2016) and what a contract crew costs to keep each one staffed.
By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 Under SOC 2, give a contract engineer day-one access only to what the first ticket needs: a scoped repository, a non-production environment, and named credentials with MFA. Production data, merge rights to protected branches, and break-glass wait for a second reviewer and a written approval, then … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 PHP2Shell is a pair of critical PHP flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that let an attacker run code on a web server without logging in, and the only complete fix is upgrading to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35. Both score 9.2. PHP shipped the patches on October 21, 2026, … Read more
A three-month contract security remediation squad costs about $189,700 at national index medians. What 24×7 SOC seats and an audit-prep sprint cost, and what a bill rate includes (KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4).
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 IonQ agreed on October 12, 2026 to buy zero trust firm Elisity for up to $1.3 billion in stock, putting post-quantum cryptography and network segmentation in one product and, for most security teams, on the same few engineers. The quantum half is not what you hire for. … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder, KORE1 An IAM engineer job description should name the identity track, the HR and directory systems it connects, how many human and non-human identities it governs, the audit that sets its calendar, the engineer’s authority, and a pay range. Most postings name three vendors and stop. “We got 214 Okta admins.” … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 IAM engineer interview questions in 2026 should spend most of the hour on tokens, consent grants, and non-human accounts, because that is where the identity breaches of the last three years actually happened. Definitions are what the candidate studied. Breaches are what the candidate will face. A card servicing … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A DevSecOps engineer job description should name the CI system, repository count, clouds, open findings backlog, licensed tools, who can bypass a failed security check, and a pay range, typically $120,000 to $195,000 base in 2026. Most postings list tools instead. Tool lists do not tell a candidate what … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 DevSecOps engineer interview questions worth asking in 2026 test whether a candidate can defend the build system itself, keep scanner noise low enough that developers still read it, and respond when a trusted dependency turns hostile. Tool definitions are easy to study. Those three things are not. … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Contractor offboarding access revocation means closing every path a contractor had into your systems, not just disabling the SSO account: live sessions, refresh tokens, personal access tokens, cloud keys, and the shared secrets they could read. Most teams do the first item and call it done. A … Read more
