Thoughts on building things, breaking things, and the occasional rabbit hole.
July 28, 2026
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The Rift Between Compliance and Marketing: Why We Love Magic
Why do we fall for Black Box AI pitches? A look at the dissonance between the EU AI Act, ACN's push for resilience, and marketing that sells AI-powered unicorns.
June 23, 2026
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The 6-Month Delusion: Why Your SOC Automation Is Already Obsolete and Why You Should Be Wary of 'AI SOC'
The average eCrime breakout time is 29 minutes. Yet the legacy SOAR pitch still demands 6–12 months before a single playbook runs. Here's why the 'AI SOC' magic act is the next trap - and what measuring accountability actually looks like.
April 1, 2026
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Why Normalization is a "Bummer"
Normalization is every SOC Manager's dream. As a developer, I love a clean schema. But real life is less about 'tada' moments and more about APIs with data structures that seem designed specifically to give devs a headache.
March 1, 2026
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AI Doesn't Reduce Work - It Intensifies It
Researchers spent eight months inside a 200-person tech company watching what happened when employees got access to generative AI. Workers consistently worked faster, took on more, and stretched into more hours - entirely on their own initiative. Because AI made 'doing more' feel possible. That's the trap.
January 29, 2026
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Automating Multi-Tenant Wazuh: A Practical Guide
How to provision isolated customer environments on a shared Wazuh SIEM in minutes - step-by-step manual walkthrough, then a single-command automation tool.
December 19, 2025
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Are You Really as Original as You Think?
25 state-of-the-art AI models. 1,250 responses to the same question. Two unique answers. The NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper proves AI is creating a thought monoculture - and what that means for your business differentiation.
December 15, 2025
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The SOC Hero Problem
Every SOC has one. The analyst who builds the integrations nobody else understands, writes the scripts that hold everything together, and quietly becomes a single point of failure. The dark side nobody talks about.
December 2, 2025
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Alert Fatigue - An Inevitable Base Rate Problem
Even with 99% accurate detection, when threats are rare the math guarantees a flood of false positives. Alert fatigue is not an operations failure - it is a base rate problem. The question is how to manage it intelligently.
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