// Insights

Threat intelligence and field notes from the SOC.

Practical writing for security leaders, IR practitioners, and the engineers who keep production secure.

THREAT INTEL

The 2026 ransomware playbook: AI-augmented negotiation

Nation-state-affiliated crews are using LLMs to draft victim-tailored ransom demands. Here is how the attack lifecycle has shifted, and four detections that catch it.

Jun 1, 2026
ZERO TRUST

Why your VPN is the new attack surface

Legacy VPN concentrators remain the most-targeted ingress point in IR engagements we ran in Q1. A practical migration plan to ZTNA.

May 24, 2026
AI SECURITY

Prompt injection is not the threat. Agentic over-reach is.

Most LLM hardening guides obsess over prompts. The real risk is what your agent is allowed to do once compromised. A threat model.

May 17, 2026
MDR

Inside our SOC: how we cut MTTC to 47 seconds

A walk-through of our autonomous triage stack — what the AI handles, what humans escalate, and where we stop the model from acting unsupervised.

May 9, 2026
COMPLIANCE

NIST CSF 2.0: what actually changed, and what to do first

The new "Govern" function is more than a label. Six concrete actions for security leaders inheriting CSF 2.0 obligations.

Apr 30, 2026
INCIDENT RESPONSE

Forty hours that decide everything: the first 48 of a ransomware response

A field-tested timeline of decisions, communications, and technical actions that determine whether an incident becomes a crisis.

Apr 22, 2026