Innovation Moves at the Speed of Trust
There’s no shortage of excitement around artificial intelligence right now, and there’s certainly no shortage of concern either. This week, another round of warnings from AI researchers and technology leaders brought some of those concerns back into focus. As AI models become more capable and autonomous agents are given the ability to perform increasingly complex tasks, […]
The Architecture You Didn’t Design – Pinpoint Protocol
Most architecture diagrams are clean by necessity. They show applications, databases, network boundaries, cloud services, identity systems, and the connections between them. They help us understand how an environment was designed and how its major components are supposed to interact. The real environment is usually a lot messier. Systems change after they’re deployed. New functionality […]
What Protects The Protection? – Pinpoint Protocol
Engineers spend a lot of time thinking about failure because experience tells us that eventually something will fail. Disks die, processes crash, network connections disappear, and deployments don’t always go according to plan. That’s why we build redundancy, monitoring, failover, rollback procedures, and recovery into the systems we design. Good engineering isn’t based on the […]
Trust Is Necessary. Permanent Trust Isn’t. – Pinpoint Protocol
One of the more interesting cybersecurity stories this week wasn’t interesting because an attacker got in. It was interesting because of what happened after they did. ReliaQuest disclosed that an employee was targeted in a social engineering attack that temporarily exposed a single identity session. The attacker was able to see an identity dashboard, but […]
You Can’t Patch Everything First – Pinpoint Protocol
Microsoft fixed more than 400 vulnerabilities this month. One was already being exploited. GeoServer attackers began exploiting a newly disclosed vulnerability within hours. GitLab issued an emergency out-of-band update. CISA is warning that a SharePoint vulnerability is now being used in ransomware attacks. There is an obvious takeaway from headlines like these: patch quickly. That’s […]
Attackers Follow The Path Of Least Resistance – Pinpoint Protocol
When most of us think about protecting something valuable, we naturally focus on the thing itself. If you want to protect your house, you lock the doors. If you want to protect your phone, you use a passcode. If you’re protecting company data, you secure the systems where that data lives. Attackers don’t always think […]
Never Arrived – Pinpoint Protocol
One of the things I enjoy most about working in cybersecurity is that I never feel like I’ve “arrived.” There is always another technology to understand, another attack technique to study, or another lesson hiding in this week’s headlines. At first, that can feel overwhelming, especially for someone new to the field. Over time, though, […]
Trust And Responsibility – Pinpoint Protocol
Trust is a funny thing and most of us don’t think about it until it’s gone. When we create an online account, schedule a doctor’s appointment, pay a utility bill, or sign up for a new service, we share pieces of our lives without giving it much thought. We trust that our information will be […]
Acceleration – Pinpoint Protocol
One thing has become increasingly clear over the past year. Technology isn’t just evolving…it’s accelerating and this week’s headlines tell the story. Microsoft released security updates for 570 vulnerabilities. Critical flaws in ServiceNow, SonicWall, and WordPress were being exploited almost as soon as they became public. At the same time, AI is beginning to discover […]
Nothing Is Temporary – Pinpoint Protocol
If you’ve spent any time building or maintaining technology, you’ve probably used the word“temporary.”A temporary firewall rule. A temporary service account. A temporary exception. A temporary configuration change. There’s nothing inherently wrong with temporary solutions. Sometimes they’re exactly what’s needed to keep a project moving or solve a problem quickly. The challenge is that technology […]
Strategy Before Technology – Pinpoint Protocol
I’ve been consuming a lot of AI content lately. New models. New benchmarks. New tools. New predictions. Every week it seems like there’s another breakthrough that’s supposed to change everything. The interesting part isn’t the technology anymore. It’s how organizations are responding to it. Some are moving as fast as possible because they don’t want […]
AI Makes People More Important – Pinpoint Protocol
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve talked about AI from a few different angles. Alan focused on curiosity. Tiffany focused on asking better questions. This week, I kept coming back to one thought: AI is making people more important, not less. That may sound backwards, especially with how much attention AI is getting. […]