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Cyber Security Events, News and Best PracticesPinpoint Protocol 2026.24
One of the questions I hear most often lately is: "Will AI replace cybersecurity analysts?" After another week of reviewing vulnerabilities, incidents, and threat activity, I think the better question is: "What makes a great analyst in an AI-enabled world?" The...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.23
Most of us are pretty good at spotting things that feel suspicious. An email from someone we don't know. A strange text message. A website that looks a little off. Those situations naturally make us cautious. The bigger challenge is often the opposite. The...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.22
Most technology problems don't start as technology problems. The system works...until the documentation is outdated. Until a dependency changes. Until a credential isn't rotated. Until nobody remembers why something was configured that way. That's when operational...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.21
Good security programs behave like well-engineered systems. They’re repeatable. Maintainable. Understandable by more than one person. They continue functioning under pressure, even when conditions are not perfect. That’s what operational maturity actually looks...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.20
The velocity of everything is increasing. Threats are moving faster. Businesses are moving faster. AI is accelerating both innovation and exploitation simultaneously. Expectations are higher, timelines are shorter, and the volume of decisions organizations are...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.19
Most organizations don’t experience catastrophic failure all at once. They drift. Not dramatically. Not intentionally. Usually just a few small deviations over time. A delayed update becomes “we’ll get to it next cycle.”An exception gets approved and never...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.18
There’s something about a day like Cinco de Mayo that feels easy. You’re meeting friends, stepping away from work, maybe checking your phone a little less, maybe not thinking too much about anything urgent. Everything feels a bit more relaxed. A bit more routine....
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...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.07
One of the things I appreciate most about working in Security is how often progress comes from helping someone else solve a problem. Whether it’s walking through a tricky alert, tuning a detection rule, or sharing a shortcut that saves someone an hour, resilience is...