SecurityTrust Is the Exploit
From a six-month DPRK social engineering operation to mass exploitation of developer ecosystems, this week's threat landscape reveals that the most reliable attack surface is the trust we extend by default.
Cyber Strategy
Trust Is the Attack Surface
Every major incident this week exploited institutional or interpersonal trust rather than technical vulnerabilities. The adversary's target is not the system. It is the relationship.
Are Hacktivists Going Out of Business? Or Just Out of Style
Hacktivism hasn't disappeared; it has been absorbed into the cybercrime economy and repurposed as cover for state-sponsored operations, forcing defenders to rethink how they assess ideologically motivated threats.
Predicting the Six Biggest Impacts AI Will Have on OT Cybersecurity
Quoted on treating AI agents as insider threats and the emerging legal liability for autonomous AI decisions in enterprise environments.
Predicting the Six Biggest Impacts AI Will Have on OT Cybersecurity
Quoted on why enterprises need to start treating AI systems as insider threats, the coming wave of AI liability lawsuits, and the machine identity crisis facing security teams.
2026 Security Predictions: Are You Prepared?
Quoted on why enterprises must adopt nation-state-grade defenses as APT groups increasingly target private-sector companies for economic disruption, IP theft, and geopolitically aligned espionage.
What National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Means in 2025
Quoted on why enabling multi-factor authentication remains the single highest-impact action individuals can take against credential-based attacks.
When Confusion Becomes a Weapon: Economic Uncertainty and Cyber Risk
Economic turbulence weaponizes organizational chaos through social engineering campaigns that exploit distraction and degraded attention. while paradoxically prompting security budget cuts exactly when attacks intensify.
Strategic AI Alliances and the Geopolitics of Today's Internet
As nations weaponize AI and enforce data sovereignty requirements, the borderless internet has fractured into competing digital blocs, forcing enterprises to navigate fragmented compliance regimes while adversaries exploit jurisdictional gaps.
US Cybersecurity Efforts for Spacecraft Are Up in the Air
Quoted on the lack of progress in spacecraft cybersecurity standards and why the delay is concerning given supply chain breaches targeting government systems.
Hack the Hacker's Mind: Weaponizing Cognitive Biases in Cyber Defense
Adversarial Cognitive Engineering flips traditional defense models by exploiting predictable patterns in attacker decision-making, using deception operations to waste attacker resources rather than merely detecting intrusions after they occur.
Evolving Cyber Resilience: From Tool Sprawl to Ecosystem Balance
Modern security ecosystems have grown so complex they create vulnerabilities through sheer disorganization. Resilience requires treating security architecture like biological systems that adapt through classification, evolution, and purposeful simplification.
The Dual-Edged Sword of AI in Cybersecurity
AI amplifies both defensive and offensive capabilities asymmetrically, raising the ceiling for defenders while lowering the floor for attackers and creating a fundamentally new threat multiplier that organizations cannot address through traditional approaches alone.