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Recent developments, analysis, and updates from the world of cybersecurity and AI safety.

Blog · Published Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Teaching Kids to Question What an AI Tells Them

A search engine hands a kid a list of sources to compare. A chatbot hands over one confident-sounding answer. That difference matters more than most parents realize.

Blog · Published Aug 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Anatomy of a Ransomware Negotiation

Most organizations plan for how to prevent ransomware. Very few plan for what happens in the 48 hours after the note appears. Here is what that actually looks like.

Blog · Published Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Why Penetration Testing Isn't a One-Time Checkbox

An annual pen test satisfies an auditor. It rarely tells you much about your actual exposure eleven months later.

Blog · Published Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The Rise of Living-off-the-Land Attacks

The hardest attacks to catch sometimes involve no malware at all, just the tools already sitting on every system, used the way they were designed to be used.

Blog · Published Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
Building a Security Operations Center on a Small Budget

You do not need a room full of monitors to get most of what a SOC actually does. Here is a scaled-down version that works.

Blog · Published Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
What Active Cyber Defence Looks Like in Practice

Passive security waits for an alarm to go off. Active defence goes looking for trouble before the alarm fires, on purpose, on a schedule.

Blog · Published Jul 27, 2026 · 1 min read
The Principle of Least Privilege, Explained Simply

One of the oldest ideas in security. Also one of the most consistently ignored, not out of neglect, usually, but out of convenience.

Blog · Published Jul 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Why Encryption Alone Doesn't Mean Your Data Is Safe

Our data is encrypted gets treated as a complete answer to is our data secure. It is a necessary layer, not a sufficient one, and the gap has caused real breaches.

Blog · Published Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read
A Practical Guide to Data Classification for Small Teams

Data classification sounds like a large-enterprise exercise with thirty categories and a governance team. A three-tier version works fine for a team of five.