Security insights & guides
Rollback Plans for Automated Fixes: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to automated remediation rollback: state capture, per-change reversal patterns, rollback triggers, and how to test them before you need…
Ring-Based Patch Deployment: From Pilot to Production Safely
How deployment rings stage a patch from canary to full fleet, with promotion criteria, soak times, halt procedures, and server vs. workstation…
Who Owns Vulnerability Remediation? A RACI You Can Copy
A copyable RACI matrix for vulnerability management: who owns discovery, triage, remediation, and closure, plus escalation thresholds that hold under a reorg.
M&A Security: Inheriting an Attack Surface You Never Mapped
What a merger acquisition attack surface review finds, the day-1 domain and IP ownership checks, inventory merge fixes, and segmentation before integration.
SOC 2 Exceptions and Qualified Opinions: Causes and Fixes
A SOC 2 qualified opinion often starts with one missed remediation SLA. Here is how exceptions form, get sampled, and get corrected…
Tuning Scan Concurrency Without Saturating the Network
Learn how to size parallel hosts, checks per host, and connection limits against firewall session tables so scans finish fast without disrupting…
Unquoted Service Paths and Weak Service ACLs on Windows
Learn when an unquoted service path is actually exploitable, find real risk fast with PowerShell, and fix Windows service ACLs so the…
Inside the EPSS Model: What Data Predicts Exploitation
How does EPSS work: the features, ground truth, retraining cadence and calibration behind exploitation prediction, and how to use it without breaking…
Board Cyber Risk Presentation: A 10-Slide Structure
A 10-slide structure for board cyber risk reporting: what belongs on each slide, how to phrase risk in business terms, and how…
Exporting Security Command Center Findings Into Your Workflow
Export GCP Security Command Center findings via Pub/Sub or BigQuery, map categories to SLAs, and write ticket state back without losing scanner…