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By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In Severance, the employees of Lumon Industries live in a world of strict compartmentalization. Your work self cannot access what your personal self knows, and you certainly cannot wander into another department's floor without authorization. Every boundary is enforced at the threshold, with no exceptions. That is exactly what good network traffic filtering looks like. What Is Perform Traffic Filtering Between Network Segments? Traffic filtering between network segments means controlling what can talk to... read more.

• August 25, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/17 Ransomware Didn’t Slow Down in Q2 2026. It Just Spread Out. (Check Point) In Q1, the top 10 groups controlled 71% of victims across just 71 active groups, a tight, top heavy market. By Q2, that eased to 57.6%, and active groups climbed to 93, the highest on record. https://blog.checkpoint.com/security/ransomware-didnt-slow-down-in-q2-2026-it-just-spread-out/ The AI You Can't See: Why Shadow AI Is a Visibility Problem, Not a Blocking Problem (Island) Most security teams believe they kn... read more.

• August 21, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In Andor (2022), the rebel intelligence cell at Ferrix doesn't wait for the Empire to announce its arrival. They funnel every signal, every movement, every comm transmission into a single command center and watch the whole network in real time. The moment something looks wrong, someone knows. That is exactly what a Network Intrusion Detection System does for your enterprise, and CIS Safeguard 13.3 says you should have one. What Is Deploy a Network Intrusion Detection Solution? A Network Intrusion Detectio... read more.

• August 18, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/10 The hidden economics of healthcare IT: where cost accumulates (Citrix) Where time, accuracy, and continuity define care delivery, the cost of healthcare technology is a function of how it performs against the conditions the sector is operating under, not the conditions it was designed for a decade ago. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2026/08/05/the-hidden-economics-of-healthcare-it-where-cost-accumulates/ Proactive Security Is No Longer Optional: Why Reactive Patching Can't Win Against Agentic... read more.

• August 14, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In HBO's The Last of Us (2023), the cordyceps fungus does its most dangerous work quietly, at the individual host level, before anyone realizes what is happening. By the time the network-level symptoms appear, containment is already a long shot. The parallel to cybersecurity is uncomfortable but exact. Host-based intrusion detection is about catching the infection on the machine where it starts, before it moves anywhere else. What Is Deploy a Host-Based Intrusion Detection Solution? A host-based intrusion... read more.

• August 11, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/3 Rethinking security for the age of AI (Microsoft) No single model will be optimal for every security task. Effective cyber defense requires applying the right model to the right problem at the right time. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/27/rethinking-security-for-the-age-of-ai/ It's Not the Model You absorb an AI-scale backlog by letting AI tell you which fraction of it forms a chain — and breaking the chain, sometimes with a compensating control, before a patch even exists. A... read more.

• August 07, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

When the oxygen tank ruptured on Apollo 13, mission control didn't learn about it from a single alarm. They learned about it from a constellation of anomalies: pressure readings, power fluctuations, thruster telemetry, all converging on one floor in Houston at the same time. That centralized view of every system on the spacecraft is what gave the team the context they needed to understand what was happening. Individual data points told a partial story. The correlation told the truth. That is exactly what C... read more.

• August 04, 2026

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Security

You've sat at this dinner. Eight security leaders around a table, good wine, better steak, and a conversational register I've come to think of as the auditor voice. Everyone has a mature program. Everyone's board is engaged. Everyone is "well positioned" on AI. By dessert you start to wonder whether your dinner companions are interviewing for their next role or rehearsing for their next examination — because nobody talks like that to people they trust. Here's the thing: I don't blame them. The perfo... read more.

• August 03, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 7/27 Autopilot and the Intune Connector Microsoft Autopilot is a cloud-based solution that is used to provision new Windows devices and provides an alternative to the older imaging technology. When coupled with Intune, Autopilot enables vendors to drop-ship new machines directly to end users. https://www.gothamtg.com/blog/autopilot-and-the-intune-connector Microsoft Entra ID security updates: Passkeys are the default authentication method in Entra ID (Microsoft) Microsoft Entra ID is updati... read more.

• July 31, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne is a CIA operative, one of their best. But the moment he goes off the grid and stops authenticating through official CIA channels, something critical happens: the CIA loses the ability to support him, track him, or protect the mission. They can't help what they can't see. Resources dry up. Oversight vanishes. The whole operational picture breaks down because one asset is running without accountability to the infrastructure designed to support, and protect, him. Your rem... read more.

• July 28, 2026