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Cyber Security Events, News and Best PracticesPinpoint Protocol 2026.32
Attackers Follow the Path of Least Resistance 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...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.31
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...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.30
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...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.29
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...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.28
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...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.27
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...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.26
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...
Pinpoint Protocol 2026.25
Last week, Alan reminded us that AI can process information faster than any analyst ever could, and he's right. AI can summarize logs.AI can prioritize alerts.AI can even explain what a vulnerability does. But there's one thing it can't do on its own. It can't...
Pinpoint 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...