Pinpoint Protocol 2026.17
A lot of the most important work in cybersecurity doesn’t get seen. It’s not the headline. It’s not the incident everyone talks about after the fact. It’s everything that happens before that. The alerts that get reviewed. The patterns that get noticed. The...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.16
There’s something about a great café in Paris that feels effortless. Everything looks simple. Clean. Thoughtfully put together. The experience just works. But what makes it feel that way isn’t luck. It’s intention. Behind the scenes, every detail has been...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.15
Most people remember the classroom game Heads Up, Seven Up. Heads down. Eyes closed. A few people get tapped, and when it’s over, they have to guess who did it. Most of the time, they guess wrong. Not because they weren’t paying attention, but because there wasn’t...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.14
In most environments, incidents don’t start with something obvious. They start with something that looked normal. A process that worked yesterday. A system behaving as expected. A control that technically exists, but hasn’t been exercised under pressure. Then...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.13
Last week at RSA, one theme showed up consistently across conversations with peers, vendors, and operators: We’re not lacking capability in cybersecurity.We’re struggling with clarity. There is no shortage of tools, telemetry, or intelligence. If anything, the...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.12
We don’t have a tooling problem in cybersecurity right now. We have a cognitive saturation problem. Too many alerts. Too many dashboards. Too many competing priorities. And when everything feels important, the one thing that actually matters becomes easier to miss....
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.11
A good way to stay grounded in cybersecurity is to zoom out and look at the full picture, not just individual headlines. This week’s headlines reflect that pretty clearly. A global disruption impacting operations across dozens of countries. Zero-days in widely used...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.10
Some weeks in cybersecurity feel like a reminder of how many moving parts we’re all responsible for watching. This was one of those weeks. Between a suspected supply-chain breach involving a telecommunications provider tied to a sensitive FBI system, dozens of...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.09
Some weeks in cybersecurity feel like watching the world move very quickly, and this was one of them. From browser vulnerabilities and mobile patches to large third-party data breaches and infrastructure warnings, the headlines reminded us just how interconnected...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.08
I’ve always liked the moments when systems behave exactly the way they’re designed to. Clean logs, predictable processes, no surprises. In cybersecurity, that kind of stability isn’t luck — it’s the result of deliberate configuration, disciplined patching, and...
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