by Ron Samson | | Managed Security, Network Security, Threat Detection and Response
Security operations metrics should prove risk reduction—not just SOC activity Security leaders rarely struggle to produce dashboards. They struggle to produce dashboards that answer the questions executives actually ask: Are we becoming harder to compromise? Can we...
by Ron Samson | Jul 24, 2026 | Threat Detection and Response
Alert fatigue is an operating-model problem Security operations center teams do not become ineffective because they receive alerts. They become ineffective when too many alerts arrive without enough context, prioritization, ownership, or time to investigate them...
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,...
