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...
by Ron Samson | Jul 21, 2026 | Endpoint Security
An EDR alert is the beginning of the security work Endpoint detection and response platforms are now a core security control for organizations of every size. They can identify suspicious processes, malicious command lines, credential dumping behavior, ransomware...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
A SIEM can collect every firewall event, identity record, endpoint alert, cloud audit trail, and application log in the business—and still fail to improve security. The gap is rarely log volume. It is tuning: the discipline of deciding which events matter, how they...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
Compliance monitoring is not the same as building a SOC For many security and IT leaders, audit readiness has become the practical business case for better monitoring. Cyber insurance questionnaires, customer security reviews, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and the...
