by Ron Samson | | Email Security, Threat Detection and Response
A fraudulent payment request is an incident, not an accounting exception Business email compromise (BEC) succeeds because it exploits trusted business processes: an executive approval, a vendor invoice, a payroll change, or an urgent wire instruction. The message may...
by Ron Samson | Aug 20, 2026 | SIEM and Log Management, Threat Detection and Response
The Real Cost of a Noisy SIEM False positives are not merely an analyst annoyance. They consume investigation capacity, delay response to credible threats, and train teams to distrust the very platform intended to protect the business. When every privileged login,...
by Ron Samson | | SIEM and Log Management, Threat Detection and Response, Threat Insight
MFA is essential, but it is not a detection strategy Multi-factor authentication is one of the most important controls an organization can deploy. It blocks a large share of opportunistic password attacks, reduces the value of reused credentials, and supports modern...
by Ron Samson | | Managed Security, Network Security, Threat Detection and Response
Why SOC measurement fails when it becomes a dashboard exercise Security leaders rarely lack telemetry. They lack a defensible way to show whether telemetry is changing exposure. A SOC can close thousands of tickets, report fast average response times, and still miss...
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...
