Blog

Thoughts on building things, breaking things, and the occasional rabbit hole.

July 28, 2026

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SOCmate
Compliance
EU AI Act
AI Security
Marketing

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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SOCmate
SOC Operations
SOAR
AI SOC
Automation

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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LinkedIn
SOC
Data
SIEM

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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LinkedIn
AI
Automation

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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SOCmate
Wazuh
MSSP
SIEM
Automation

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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Medium
AI
Creativity

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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SOCmate
SOC
Cybersecurity

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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SOCmate
SOC
Alert Fatigue
AI

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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