Tag: SaaS
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How to Spot a Vendor That Is About to Get Acquired
The vendor the enterprise relies on just got acquired. The product roadmap is now the acquirer’s product roadmap, the support contract is now the acquirer’s support contract, the data the enterprise shared with the vendor is now the acquirer’s data. The acquisition has happened before the enterprise knew it was happening.
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When Self Hosting Makes Sense, and When It Doesn’t
The self hosting decision has been the decision the developer community has been making for years, the decision the enterprise has started making again. The SaaS subscription the developer no longer trusts, the SaaS the developer can now host, the SaaS the developer is now running on the home server.
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What Privacy Preserving Telemetry Looks Like
Privacy preserving telemetry has gone from the research paper to the default in three years. The browser, the mobile OS, the operating system, the cloud platform, all now ship the telemetry the product team needs without the data the privacy team cannot collect.
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The Tools That Disappeared in 2025
Every year takes a few tools with it. The 2025 list was longer than most. The vendors, the projects, the open source tools the working developer depended on, the ones that did not survive the acquisition, the funding cut, the maintainer burnout.
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Why Your Security Questionnaire Is a Waste of Time
The security questionnaire has become the procurement ritual the security team has been asked to fill out for every vendor, the questionnaire that takes six hours per vendor, the questionnaire that asks the same fifty questions the questionnaire has been asking for ten years.
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What an Honest Vendor Demo Looks Like
The vendor demo has become the polished thirty minutes the vendor uses to sell the procurement team on the tool the vendor has spent six months building. The demo that shows the tool working in the conditions the demo was designed to handle, the conditions the enterprise environment does not match.
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Hardware Hacking in 2026 Is Having a Moment
Hardware hacking has gone from the conference talk that draws the small audience to the front page story that draws the regulator. The firmware vulnerability the researcher found in the conference demo, the vulnerability that sits in the device the enterprise has deployed across the fleet, the vulnerability that the vendor has been quietly patching…
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What AI Cannot Do, Yet
A field guide to what AI cannot do in 2026, with the four areas where the models are still bad, the four areas where the models are getting better, and the part where the honest answer is that nobody knows yet.
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Security Tooling in 2026 Is Bigger Than Ever, and About the Same
A field guide to the security tooling market in 2026, with the consolidation, the categories that are over funded, the categories that are under funded, and the part about the dashboard that is going to get ignored.
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How to Read a Vulnerability Disclosure
Every CVE announcement looks the same. The implications are not the same. Here is how to read a vulnerability disclosure like a defender, not like a marketer, in 2026.