Writing From
the Actual Work.
Cyber security, detection and engineering, written by the people doing it. Opinionated, specific, and drawn from real incidents and delivery — not a content calendar.
You don't have a CTO problem. You have a decision problem.
Founders reach for a CTO hire when what they actually need is three or four hard technical decisions made well. Hiring is the slowest, most expensive way to get those.
Read →What AithSense actually does at 3am
The alert that matters never arrives at a convenient hour. Here's what an agentic SOC does with the 2am flood — and, more importantly, what it refuses to do without you.
Read →What a red team actually does on day one
Not the movie version. No hoodie, no green terminal rain. Mostly it is reading — your job ads, your DNS, your engineers' conference talks — and building a map you never knew existed.
Read →Your CVE backlog is mostly noise. Here's the part that isn't.
Nine hundred 'criticals' and an engineering team that has stopped reading them. Reachability is the difference between a vulnerability you have and a vulnerability you can be hurt by.
Read →MFA fatigue is not a user problem
Somebody approved the push. Again. Before you write another training module, look at the thing that sent forty prompts to a phone at 2am and asked nobody why.
Read →The 200-question security questionnaire, and how to stop dreading it
Your first big customer sends a spreadsheet with 200 rows. Most teams answer it twice — badly the first time, then again after the deal nearly dies. Here's how we get it down to once.
Read →Find Out What an Attacker
Would Find First.
A forty-five minute review with a senior engineer. No slides, no obligation, three concrete actions at the end.