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 | | 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...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
How to evaluate an MSSP before the contract becomes your operating model Choosing an MSSP is not a software purchase. It is a decision about who will watch your environment at 2 a.m., challenge noisy detections, explain risk to auditors, and help your team respond...
by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Managed Security, Network Security
After-hours monitoring is an operating model, not a checkbox Attackers do not wait for business hours, maintenance windows, or a convenient staffing cycle. They work when response paths are thin, executives are offline, and internal teams are juggling sleep, family,...
by Ron Samson | | Cybersecurity, Managed Security, Network Security
Cybersecurity tool sprawl is now an operations problem Security leaders rarely set out to build an unmanageable stack. Tool sprawl usually arrives through sensible decisions: a new EDR after an incident, a cloud scanner for a migration, a SIEM for compliance, an...
