by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Start With the Operating Reality Lean IT teams do not need another monitoring platform that creates more alerts, more dashboards, and more work. They need a security monitoring operating model that identifies the attacks most likely to disrupt the business, gives...
by Ron Samson | Jul 23, 2026 | Threat Detection and Response
Encryption Is the Endgame, Not the First Observable Event Ransomware rarely begins with a ransom note. By the time files are encrypted, attackers have usually completed several earlier objectives: obtaining credentials, establishing persistence, escalating privileges,...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Buying a managed security service when you already own a SIEM, EDR, firewall stack, identity platform, and vulnerability scanner is fundamentally different from buying a bundled technology-and-service package. The question is not, “Which provider has the best tools?”...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Compliance Monitoring Is Not the Same as Security Monitoring Security monitoring often begins as a compliance project: collect logs, retain them for a prescribed period, generate reports, and show an auditor that controls exist. That work matters. It also creates a...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Alert Fatigue Is an Operations Problem, Not a Tolerance Problem Security teams do not miss threats because they lack alerts. They miss threats because urgent signals are buried under repetitive, low context, or poorly prioritized noise. When analysts receive hundreds...
