Building Tanks

Preventative controls dominate security spending, but since not every attack can be stopped, detective controls deserve more attention — though noisy IDS/IPS and unreviewed logs often undercut them.

A measured take on Anthropic's Mythos: autonomously chaining four vulnerabilities is a real inflection point, but teams should build their own benchmarks and keep human verification central.

Prioritize high-impact pentest findings and technical debt over compliance tasks in Q1; deferred findings compound into costlier, architecture-level remediation problems later.

Indirect prompt injection hides malicious instructions in content LLMs later read—email footers, PDFs, web pages. Real Microsoft 365 Copilot attacks make defense in depth and AI monitoring essential.

Spreadsheets and fragmented point tools can't keep pace with today's expanding external attack surface. The article explains why manual asset inventories break down and what modern ASM requires.

External network pentesting delivers deep point-in-time analysis of a defined scope, while ASM continuously discovers assets and exposures; together they close gaps from unknown assets.