Intelligence for security leaders.
Perspectives, research, and practical guidance from the Strinnex team — covering the threat landscape, regulatory developments, and the technologies shaping enterprise security.
DORA Compliance: What Financial Institutions Need to Know Before the Deadline
The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act introduces binding requirements for ICT risk management, incident reporting, and third-party oversight. Here's a practical breakdown of what's required and where most organisations are falling short.
Securing LLM Applications: The Risks Most Teams Are Ignoring
As enterprises deploy LLM-powered applications at pace, a new class of vulnerabilities — prompt injection, model inversion, and data exfiltration via AI outputs — is emerging. We examine the attack surface and the controls that matter.
IT/OT Convergence: Why Legacy Industrial Networks Are Now a Boardroom Issue
The integration of operational technology with enterprise IT has dramatically expanded the attack surface for energy, utilities, and manufacturing organisations. Nation-state actors are taking notice — and so should your board.
Zero Trust Is Not a Product. It's a Programme.
The term 'zero trust' has been co-opted by vendors selling point solutions. We cut through the noise to explain what a genuine zero-trust architecture looks like — and the organisational changes required to make it work.
Data Classification Done Right: A Practical Framework for Enterprise Teams
Most organisations have a data classification policy. Few have one that actually works at scale. We share a practical framework for implementing classification that integrates with your existing DLP, IAM, and cloud security controls.
Technical briefs & solution overviews
Concise, practitioner-focused briefs covering specific service areas, compliance requirements, and implementation approaches.
Extending Identity Governance to Disconnected Applications
Most IGA platforms enforce policy where native connectors exist. This brief outlines a structured approach to bringing applications outside your IAM coverage into a unified governance framework — without multi-year integration programmes.
Accelerating User Access Review Campaigns
Periodic access certification is a regulatory requirement — yet most organisations run UAR campaigns manually. This brief covers the architecture, tooling, and process design needed to automate evidence collection, reviewer routing, and audit artefact generation.
Saudi PDPL Compliance: A Practitioner's Checklist
A structured, field-tested checklist covering every component of a defensible PDPL compliance baseline — from SDAIA registration and RoPA through to breach notification readiness and cross-border transfer controls.
Privileged Access Management: From Assessment to Operation
PAM programmes frequently stall between initial deployment and operational maturity. This brief outlines the assessment, design, and operationalisation phases required to move from tool installation to continuous privileged access control.
In-depth research & strategic guidance
Substantive research papers and strategic guides for security leaders navigating complex programme decisions.
The Identity Perimeter: Why IAM Is Now Your Primary Security Control
Network perimeters have dissolved. Cloud adoption, remote work, and third-party access have made identity the definitive control point for enterprise security. This paper examines the architectural shift, the threat landscape driving it, and the programme investments required to make identity a reliable security boundary.
Operationalising Zero Trust: Beyond the Vendor Narrative
Zero trust has become one of the most misused terms in enterprise security. This paper cuts through the vendor noise to define what a genuine zero-trust programme looks like — the architectural principles, the phased implementation approach, and the organisational changes required to make it work at scale.
Ransomware Resilience: A Structural Approach for Enterprise Security Teams
Ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems have matured significantly. This paper examines the attack lifecycle — from initial access through lateral movement, data exfiltration, and encryption — and maps the defensive controls and programme investments that meaningfully reduce both likelihood and impact.
Real-world security challenges we solve
Scenario-based guidance showing how Strinnex approaches specific security and compliance challenges — from the problem through to the outcome.
Rapid Offboarding Across Disconnected Systems
The challenge
When an employee departs, access must be revoked across every system they used — including applications that have no native integration with your IAM platform. Manual ticket-driven processes introduce delays measured in days, leaving active credentials in place long after departure.
The outcome
A structured offboarding architecture that automates deprovisioning across both integrated and disconnected applications, with reconciliation back to your IGA platform and a complete, timestamped audit trail for every revocation action.
Third-Party & Vendor Access Governance
The challenge
Contractors, partners, and managed service providers require time-limited, scoped access to internal systems. Without a structured governance model, third-party accounts accumulate, access persists beyond engagement end dates, and audit evidence is incomplete.
The outcome
A third-party identity governance programme covering onboarding workflows, time-bound access provisioning, periodic access reviews, and automated deprovisioning — giving your security team full visibility and control over every external identity in your environment.
Cloud Privilege Escalation Detection & Response
The challenge
Cloud environments create new privilege escalation paths that traditional PAM tools do not cover. Misconfigured IAM roles, over-permissioned service accounts, and unmonitored API keys give adversaries a route to administrative access that bypasses conventional controls.
The outcome
A cloud privilege management programme that maps entitlements across your cloud estate, identifies escalation paths and over-permissioned identities, implements least-privilege enforcement, and integrates cloud privilege events into your SIEM for continuous detection and response.
Regulatory Audit Readiness for PDPL & ISO 27001
The challenge
Regulatory audits require evidence of access controls, data handling practices, and incident response capability — gathered across systems that were not designed with audit readiness in mind. Organisations frequently discover gaps only when the audit clock is already running.
The outcome
A structured audit readiness programme that maps your current control posture against PDPL and ISO 27001 requirements, closes identified gaps, and produces the documentation, evidence artefacts, and process records needed to demonstrate compliance to regulators and auditors with confidence.
Get intelligence delivered to your inbox.
Monthly threat briefings, regulatory updates, and security research — curated for security leaders and practitioners.
Stay ahead of the threat landscape.
Speak with our team to understand how the latest threat intelligence applies to your specific environment and risk profile.