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Stryker’s Tens of Thousands of Wiped Devices: Iran Shifts From Espionage to Destruction

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By Deepak Gupta
| Security Boulevard Verified
In March 2026, Iranian hackers broke into Stryker, a U.S. medical technology company, and remotely wiped tens of thousands of employee devices in a single coordinated attack. No ransom demand. No data exfiltration for sale. The objective was destruction. The attack disrupted Stryker’s operations for several days and represented a marked shift in Iranian cyber operations.
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GEO Is Fake, Says Everyone. So Why Are So Many Companies Hiring GEO Managers?

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By Deepak Gupta
| Security Boulevard Verified
Two conversations about Generative Engine Optimization are running in parallel right now, and they cannot both be right. The short answer up front: skeptics are correct that most GEO tactics overlap with SEO, but wrong that the discipline is fake. Companies including Stripe, SailPoint, AWS, Amgen, and Citizens Bank have created dedicated GEO and AEO roles with salaries reaching $171,000, because being cited in AI answers and ranking in Google have become different problems with different owners.
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Build vs Buy Auth Is the Wrong Question. Here’s the Right One.

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By Deepak Gupta
| Security Boulevard Verified
Every CTO re-litigates this decision roughly every 18 months. A vendor invoice arrives higher than expected, or a feature request dies in a vendor’s backlog, or a new engineer asks why authentication costs more than the database, and suddenly the whole team is back in a conference room arguing build versus buy for authentication. I’ve been in that room from every seat.
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