The SOFTwarfare Blog

The digital perimeter hasn’t just shifted, it has been bypassed. In arecent report by Brian Krebs, a new breed of Phishing-as-a-Service known as "Starkiller" has emerged. It is specifically designed to exploit a fundamental misunderstanding of MFA. This is not a credential harvesting operation. It ...

Born in the heart of The Silicon Prairie, SOFTwarfare was built on a singular premise: to secure the core of the modern enterprise — Identity. We are not a standard software firm. We are a powerful blend of U.S. Special Operations veterans, federal identity experts, and cybersecurity industry ...

The Mandiant report on ShinyHunters (UNC6661) is not a post-mortem on technical genius; it is an indictment of Static Trust. For years, the industry has treated Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as a binary checkbox—a finish line. This is a lethal assumption. Once a user clears the login gate, ...

Beyond the Point-in-Time Login: Ninth Patent Synchronizes Real-Time Identity Verification for Human and Machine Assets Across Connected and Disconnected Domains. SOFTwarfare Delivers Continuous, Session-Long Authentication to Counter Next-Generation Quantum Threats and Automated Hijacking.

In the first 24 hours of a breach, the clock is your most expensive asset. When stolen credentials serve as the primary entry vector, the standard incident response (IR) playbook of network isolation is insufficient. If your plan treats identity as a secondary concern to pulling servers off the ...

The landscape of cyber extortion has reached a tipping point: the era of the "locked screen" is effectively over. While technical purists might argue that "Ransomware" requires the denial of access via encryption, we are witnessing an evolution where the ransom is no longer tied to a key, but to a ...

For too long, the industry has viewed security as a final inspection, a checklist item to be cleared by a separate team just before the real work goes live. In a landscape where identity is the new perimeter, this legacy mindset is a liability. In modern software delivery, security is not a gate, ...

The perimeter hasn’t just shifted; it has dissolved into a complex web of interconnected vendors, contractors, and service providers. For the modern CISO or Risk Officer, this presents a sobering reality: enterprise security is now only as strong as the Identity and Access Management of the least ...

Cybersecurity has historically been relegated to the "black box" of IT, a cost center defined by technical jargon and perpetual budget requests. This perspective is a fiduciary failure. For the modern CFO, cyber risk is no longer a peripheral technical concern; it is the largest unhedged liability ...