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Part 2: The Price. What AI Can Do To Us If We’re Not Paying Attention
Latest · May 31, 2026 · 23 min read

Part 2: The Price. What AI Can Do To Us If We’re Not Paying Attention

The same renaissance, the other wayI’m going to open with the line I closed Part 1 with, because it’s the load-bearing premise of everything that...

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Part 1: The Promise. What AI Can Do For Cyber, OT, and the World We’re Building
May 26, 2026 / 18 min read

Part 1: The Promise. What AI Can Do For Cyber, OT, and the World We’re Building

The defender’s curse, finally tiltingFor most of my career in OT cybersecurity, the defenders have been outgunned. Small teams.

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May 13, 2026 / 13 min read

Ransomware Is Coming For Your Facilities, Not Just Your Files

Look, here is the thing. Foxconn got hit again. On May 11, the Nitrogen ransomware group dropped them on its leak site, claiming 8 terabytes of data and...

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We Built a Working OT Network on a Wall.
Apr 30, 2026 / 19 min read

We Built a Working OT Network on a Wall.

Look, here's the thing about OT cybersecurity. Most of the people who need to understand it have never seen it. They've heard the acronyms.

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Claude Mythos And The AI Vulnerability Storm
Apr 16, 2026 / 12 min read

Claude Mythos And The AI Vulnerability Storm

Claude Mythos is the moment the industry’s biggest lie gets exposed. We never had a finding problem.

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OT Risk Management That Actually Works
Apr 14, 2026 / 8 min read

OT Risk Management That Actually Works

You cannot manage risk you cannot measure, and you cannot measure what you cannot see.

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Critical Infrastructure Under Attack
Apr 13, 2026 / 2 min read

Critical Infrastructure Under Attack

Nation-state attacks on critical infrastructure are no longer theoretical.

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Tabletop Exercises and Incident Response
Apr 11, 2026 / 6 min read

Tabletop Exercises and Incident Response

When a cyberattack hits an environment, there is no time to figure out who calls whom, where the playbooks are, or whether your response team has ever...

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The Streaming Box That Was Hunting SCADA Systems
Apr 10, 2026 / 6 min read

The Streaming Box That Was Hunting SCADA Systems

Issue: SuperBox / BadBox 2.0  |  Source: Darknet Diaries Episode 172The most dangerous device in your house might not be your phone or your laptop.

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Apr 10, 2026 / 2 min read

Compliance vs Security

Compliance gives you a checklist. Security gives you protection.

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AI in Cybersecurity
Apr 9, 2026 / 2 min read

AI in Cybersecurity

Everyone is adding AI to their security stack right now, often without a clear answer to the question "what problem does this solve?" The gap between AI...

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OT Remote Access and Network Security
Apr 9, 2026 / 7 min read

OT Remote Access and Network Security

Remote access into OT environments exploded during COVID, and most organizations never stopped to ask whether they got it right.IT style VPNs, shared...

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Apr 9, 2026 / 4 min read

PrOTect It All Security Brief

After more than 100 conversations about real-world cybersecurity, OT, and AI, the PrOTect IT All Podcast finally has a home base and a new hive.This...

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