Commentary on cybersecurity culture, industry practices, and professional insights drawn from 25+ years in InfoSec. Challenging conventional thinking about security strategy, organizational behavior, and the evolving cybersecurity landscape.
Identity is the real perimeter in modern environments. As service accounts, API keys, and federated access sprawl across SaaS, cloud, and APIs, organizations lose visibility, control, and the ability to enforce least privilege—turning identity debt into one of the most dangerous and persistent cyber risks.
Most cybersecurity vendors now claim “AI integration,” but few can explain what their AI actually does or how it makes operational decisions. While chat-based AI tools like Microsoft Copilot excel at individual productivity tasks, they introduce dangerous variability when applied to operational security work that requires consistency, auditability, and institutional
Most security teams believe they have better visibility than they actually do. In modern SaaS and cloud environments, logging gaps are structural, costly, and often invisible until an incident exposes them.
Perfect security is impossible. Learn how to manage risk proportionally, avoid burnout, and build sustainable security programs that improve incrementally over time.
You can’t secure what you don’t understand. Before threat hunting, tooling, or remediation, security teams must confront the messy reality of undocumented systems, identity sprawl, data drift, and technical debt. This piece explains why environment discovery is foundational security work—and why skipping it undermines everything that follows.
Certifications and frameworks don’t prepare you for how security actually works inside real organizations. This series focuses on the judgment, trade-offs, and organizational realities that define effective security work.
“Security First” sounds responsible, but in practice it shifts accountability, encourages compliance theater, and creates dangerous complacency. Real security comes from shared responsibility, informed decision-making, and balancing risk against how organizations actually operate.
The Marquis breach isn’t just another vendor incident—it exposes a systemic failure in how SaaS vendor risk is assessed, governed, and accounted for by financial institutions.
Willful ignorance isn’t passive—it’s an active decision to avoid risk visibility because knowing creates responsibility. In cybersecurity, that choice increases dwell time, impact, and long-term damage.
After 15 years in information security, the same failures keep repeating across industries. This post explains why documenting real-world security patterns matters now.