Tag: DevSecOps

  • Your AI Agent Is Not an Employee. Stop Giving It Employee Access.

    Your AI Agent Is Not an Employee. Stop Giving It Employee Access.

    Businesses are handing email accounts, terminals, GitHub access and payment permissions to AI agents that hallucinate, get prompt injected and follow anyone who knows the right words. An agent is not an employee. It is an untrusted service account, and it should be treated like one.

  • The Quiet Death of ‘Just Send Me the File’

    The Quiet Death of ‘Just Send Me the File’

    Every business, every day, has the conversation that ends with ‘just send me the file.’ The way the file moves has not changed in 30 years. That is starting to change, slowly.

  • Cloud Detection and Response: The Buyers Guide

    Cloud Detection and Response: The Buyers Guide

    The cloud detection and response buyers guide has become the guide the procurement team has been quietly trying to write, the guide the security team has been quietly trying to follow, the guide the vendor demo has been quietly trying to confuse.

  • Small Business Actually Secure in 2026

    Small Business Actually Secure in 2026

    Small business security in 2026 amounts to the security work the typical 10-50 person company has to do without the budget of the Fortune 500. The work is not impossible, the work runs as the work the security vendors do not sell to the small business, the work amounts to the work the small business…

  • Cloud Doesn’t Mean Secure

    Cloud Doesn’t Mean Secure

    We moved to the cloud, so we are secure now. It is the most common sentence in boardroom security briefings. It is also, almost always, wrong.

  • The Real Cost of Cloud When You Actually Count

    The Real Cost of Cloud When You Actually Count

    A field guide to the real cost of cloud in 2026, with what the line items are, what the operations team is being asked to fix, and the part about the FinOps team that is being asked to do the work the engineering team is not doing.

  • Kubernetes Cost Optimization: The Honest Guide

    Kubernetes Cost Optimization: The Honest Guide

    Kubernetes cost in 2026 amounts to the line item the typical enterprise did not budget for, with the typical enterprise running 50-500 Kubernetes clusters, with the cluster cost running at $50K-$500K per year per cluster, with the cost growing 30-50% per year as the cluster usage grows. The honest guide covers where the cost sits,…

  • The 3 2 1 1 0 Backup Strategy Explained

    The 3 2 1 1 0 Backup Strategy Explained

    The 3-2-1 backup strategy has been the industry standard for so long that the new variant (the 3-2-1-1-0) sounds like a typo. It is not. The extra numbers serve as the answer to the ransomware variant that the 3-2-1 was not designed to handle.

  • Small Business Security: 25 Things You Can Fix This Weekend

    Small Business Security: 25 Things You Can Fix This Weekend

    You do not need a CISO, a six-figure security budget, or a vendor pitch deck to dramatically improve your company’s security posture. You need a weekend, a checklist, and the discipline to actually finish the list.

  • The Secrets Rotation Playbook

    The Secrets Rotation Playbook

    A field guide to secrets rotation in 2026, with what the right cadence is, what to rotate and what to retire, and the automation that makes the rotation actually happen without breaking the production.