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Why your AI strategy stops where the PLC starts: Hard lessons from the OT frontlines

I spent two days at a substation connecting a major offshore wind farm to the grid. The control room featured three new AI-ready dashboards and a board mandate to “leverage machine learning for resilience.” It also had a maintenance laptop running Windows 7, literally taped to the inside of a cabinet because the Velcro had…

Developer workstations are the new beachhead

I spent the first week of April reading three separate threat intelligence reports that, on the surface, had nothing in common. One covered a North Korean campaign that had published over 1,700 malicious packages across five open-source ecosystems. Another detailed a malware operation using a Zig-compiled binary to silently infect every IDE on a developer’s…

The noisy tenants: Engineering fairness in multi-tenant SIEM solutions

I recently had the opportunity to review five popular SIEM solutions as part of a judging panel for a Security award. While each platform had its own unique flair, their core promises were remarkably consistent: 24/7/365 SOC monitoring: Round-the-clock coverage backed by global experts to validate and prioritize alerts. Proactive threat hunting: Active searches for…

Hybrid resilience: Designing incident response across on-prem, cloud and SaaS without losing your mind

I used to think hybrid incidents would get easier once we standardized on “one tool”: one monitoring platform, one ticketing system, one on-call process. After a few real outages, I changed my mind. Hybrid response fails at the seams between ownership models: on-prem teams, cloud teams, security, vendors. Each group can be correct inside its…