Profit-Driven Cybersecurity

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The Reconnaissance Revolution: How North Korea’s UNC2970 is Weaponizing Gemini to Automate the Kill Chain
The Intelligence Gap: Beyond the Hype
 • Mike Boutwell
Beyond Speed: Why MTTHI is the Only ROI Metric That Matters for the AI-Era SOC
For a decade, the Board has asked us the same two questions: “How fast did we see it?” and “How fast did we fix it?”
 • Mike Boutwell
Beyond the "Cost Center" Myth: The Rise of the Automated Trust Portal in 2026
For a decade, the CISO’s office has been the place where deals go to die—or at least where they go to sit in a three-week “Security Review” purgatory.
 • Mike Boutwell
Why "I Don't Know" is No Longer a Legal Defense: The Rise of the AI Investigator
We used to treat AI like a magic 8-ball.
 • Mike Boutwell
The AI Frankenstein: Why Securing the "Supply Chain of Intelligence" is the 2026 Frontier
In the old world of cybersecurity, we secured “Software.” We used an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) to list every library and ingredient in our code.
 • Mike Boutwell
The Vibe-Coded Trap: How Social Engineering Replaced the Hack
There was a golden era of cybersecurity that we didn’t appreciate while we had it.
 • Mike Boutwell
The Invisible Heist: "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" and the Death of Plug-and-Play Security
In 1994, a mathematician named Peter Shor published a paper that, for most of the world, was a footnote in a niche journal.
 • Mike Boutwell
The End of "Seeing is Believing"
Surviving the Post-Trust Era
 • Mike Boutwell
The Budgeting Paradox: Why a €100M Budget Can Be More Dangerous Than a Shoestring
How the "Abundance Trap" breeds complexity, and why radical scarcity is the secret to surgical security architecture.
 • Mike Boutwell

January 2026

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