Opinion — Page 4
The Gap Between the Tools Is Where Networks Break
More dashboards, more telemetry, more AI copilots — and outages still drag on for hours. The problem isn't visibility. It's the handoff.
Mythos Isn't Vapor: Inside the SAST Tool Quiet-Skeptics Are Starting to Believe
A short defense of a controversial static analysis startup, and what its findings actually look like under the hood.
Corporate Cyber Readiness Is a Compliance Exercise. The Military Treats It as Combat.
Enterprise incident response still runs on annual tabletops and audit checkboxes. That gap between posture and practice is exactly what attackers count on.
The AI SOC Hit Production. Only 10% of Buyers Call It Excellent.
Budgets shifted fast. Outcomes lagged. What the next wave of agentic SOC tooling has to prove before renewal season.
The Patch Window Is Now Measured in Hours
AI-assisted exploit development has collapsed the time between disclosure and mass exploitation. Traditional vulnerability management workflows weren't built for this pace.
EDR Is Table Stakes. Operationalizing It Is the Hard Part.
Detection telemetry only matters if someone is reading it at 3 a.m. — and most teams still aren't.
Seven Ways Tabletop Exercises Lie to You About Your Incident Response
Cybersecurity drills that feel productive can quietly manufacture false confidence. Here's where they go wrong — and what to do instead.
The vCISO Tool Is Dead. MSPs Now Need a Security Growth Platform.
What started as assessment-and-report software has to grow up — or get replaced by something that actually runs a security practice.
The Gaps CISOs Keep Losing Sleep Over — And Why They're Getting Harder to Close
Proofpoint's 2025 survey found 58% of organizations unprepared to respond to a cyberattack. The reasons why are structural, not just technical.
Dark Reading Turns 20: The Name That Toon Caption Contest Is Back
A cybersecurity cartoon contest is a low-stakes way to mark two decades of covering an industry that never stops generating material.
The SOC's Real Job Isn't Triage. It's Killing Incidents Before They Get Named.
Three workflow shifts that compress detection-to-containment from hours into the window before an alert becomes a ticket.
The 'Too Many Tools' Webinar Is a Sales Pitch. The Numbers Behind It Are Harder to Find.
Vendors keep telling network teams that consolidation and AI will fix incident response. I asked four of them for the data. None sent any.
Twenty Years of Cyber Lessons and We're Still Losing on the Basics
The industry spent two decades reinventing its philosophy — perimeter defense to assume-breach — yet the attacks that still hit hardest exploit the same unpatched, misconfigured, un-MFA'd mistakes we should have buried years ago.