An AI agent can amplify a malware analyst's skills, but the analyst must direct it and verify its findings. These tips cover how to split the work, set up a contained lab, delegate tasks, and question conclusions.

When a high-profile vulnerability surfaces, executives and customers want to know whether it affects you. With a one-page brief and a short process, you can capture the key details and reach the answer without scrambling.

Over 300 security professionals told Sounil Yu and me how their organizations secure AI. We published what we learned as the AI Security Decisions Report, so you can compare your AI security decisions with your peers'. Several of the findings were surprising, and each one is worth checking against y

Over 300 security professionals told Sounil Yu and me how their organizations secure AI. We published what we learned as the AI Security Decisions Report, so you can compare your AI security decisions with your peers'. Several of the findings were surprising, and each one is worth checking against y

The Security Autonomy Matrix is a framework for deciding how much authority to grant your security AI agents, one kind of action at a time. You record those decisions in one table, one row per workflow, capturing the autonomy level, who answers for it, and when the grant expires.

In the young security-for-AI market, what a product protects and how it ships can differ from what its label promises. With five questions drawn from the AI Defense Matrix Catalog work, you'll know what you're buying, whether that's a capability you already own or an early startup worth a closer loo

The market for products that secure AI is crowded and hard to read, with overlapping categories and products that each do many jobs. With the AI Defense Matrix, you can ask the right questions, tell what a product was built for, and staff the gaps no product fills yet.

The Security Autonomy Matrix is a framework for deciding how much authority to grant your security AI agents, one kind of action at a time. You record those decisions in one table, one row per workflow, capturing the autonomy level, who answers for it, and when the grant expires.

In the young security-for-AI market, what a product protects and how it ships can differ from what its label promises. With five questions drawn from the AI Defense Matrix Catalog work, you'll know what you're buying, whether that's a capability you already own or an early startup worth a closer loo

A malware report is only as useful as readers' ability to find in it what they need. This customizable template organizes the findings into a coherent structure, so a responder, a manager, or a fellow researcher can benefit from the analysis.

Judging a security vendor from its own materials tells you little about how it compares to the rest. Cyber Company Profiles scores hundreds of cybersecurity companies from public sources.

The market for products that secure AI is crowded and hard to read, with overlapping categories and products that each do many jobs. With the AI Defense Matrix, you can ask the right questions, tell what a product was built for, and staff the gaps no product fills yet.

A malware report is only as useful as readers' ability to find in it what they need. This customizable template organizes the findings into a coherent structure, so a responder, a manager, or a fellow researcher can benefit from the analysis.

In an effective executive brief, you lead with the bottom line and what a finding means for your organization. Use these four customizable templates to do exactly that across threat intel, vulnerabilities, incidents, and assessments.

The security-for-AI market is young and lopsided. Incumbents quickly extended their products into the AI versions of assets they already secured, while the more distinct AI assets drew startups and incumbents alike into markets that stay active and contested.

Judging a security vendor from its own materials tells you little about how it compares to the rest. Cyber Company Profiles scores hundreds of cybersecurity companies from public sources.

In an effective executive brief, you lead with the bottom line and what a finding means for your organization. Use these four customizable templates to do exactly that across threat intel, vulnerabilities, incidents, and assessments.

When a high-profile vulnerability surfaces, executives and customers want to know whether it affects you. With a one-page brief and a short process, you can capture the key details and reach the answer without scrambling.

The security-for-AI market is young and lopsided. Incumbents quickly extended their products into the AI versions of assets they already secured, while the more distinct AI assets drew startups and incumbents alike into markets that stay active and contested.

Every dev tool you grant API access to, AI assistants included, can read the keys within its reach. No setup removes that risk entirely, so the goal is fewer secrets exposed and less damage when one leaks.

Answer ten questions about how your organization secures AI, and you get a peer benchmark in return. Sounil Yu and I will publish findings on which AI assets peers protect, who decides, and where controls come from.

Keyboard apps offer better predictions, voice transcription, and AI-powered writing, all requiring users to send what they type to remote servers. Mobile OS vendors set the rules but can't enforce what developers do with that data.

When a high-profile vulnerability surfaces, executives and customers want to know whether it affects you. With a one-page brief and a short process, you can capture the key details and reach the answer without scrambling.

Answer ten questions about how your organization secures AI, and you get a peer benchmark in return. Sounil Yu and I will publish findings on which AI assets peers protect, who decides, and where controls come from.

The technical severity of an assessment finding tells only part of the story. A customizable report template helps you document the scope, rate findings by risk, and write for the executives and engineers who read the results differently.

Observability, short-lived credentials, and active enforcement hold the web's trust model together. Without them, a decade of Certificate Authority failures would've collapsed it. Will those same levers hold for what's coming next?

Keyboard apps offer better predictions, voice transcription, and AI-powered writing, all requiring users to send what they type to remote servers. Mobile OS vendors set the rules but can't enforce what developers do with that data.

The technical severity of an assessment finding tells only part of the story. A customizable report template helps you document the scope, rate findings by risk, and write for the executives and engineers who read the results differently.

Cyber threat intelligence analysts produce credible reports by weighing signals at tactical, operational, and strategic levels. A customizable CTI report template helps analysts capture activity, attribute it with calibrated confidence, and translate findings into defensive actions.

Observability, short-lived credentials, and active enforcement hold the web's trust model together. Without them, a decade of Certificate Authority failures would've collapsed it. Will those same levers hold for what's coming next?

Cyber threat intelligence analysts produce credible reports by weighing signals at tactical, operational, and strategic levels. A customizable CTI report template helps analysts capture activity, attribute it with calibrated confidence, and translate findings into defensive actions.

Credible threat attribution weighs six signals together. Each signal has a disciplined methodology behind it, with citations and stress tests to back the conclusions.

The more confident we feel in a domain, the more likely we are to claim knowledge that doesn't exist. Recognizing this overclaiming bias helps us invite critique when we share our expertise and ask sharper questions when others share theirs.

Incident responders need to know which questions to ask and how to communicate the answers to a diverse set of stakeholders. A customizable report template gives the response coordinator that structure when the stakes are high.

Decoy personas extend honeytoken thinking to user accounts and public profiles. The technique gives defenders a tripwire on the identity surface that other detection layers don't cover.

Credible threat attribution weighs six signals together. Each signal has a disciplined methodology behind it, with citations and stress tests to back the conclusions.

When letter grades are visible at the moment of decision, businesses improve their practices, with NYC restaurants raising their sanitation scores 35% within three years. The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark is starting to bring the model to consumer IoT, while consumers still don't see equivalents on the webs

Decoy personas extend honeytoken thinking to user accounts and public profiles. The technique gives defenders a tripwire on the identity surface that other detection layers don't cover.

A resume gets you past initial screening. Reputation, relationships, and visible work built in the years before the search are what land the right role.

Strong technical skills get you to the interview, but preparation gets you the offer. Show up having done the homework that many candidates skip.

To analyze malware effectively, AI agents need practitioners' expertise and access to the analysis tools. The REMnux MCP server provides both, connecting AI to 200+ tools on REMnux with guidance on which to run and how to interpret their output.

Tunneling connections through a VPN in a public cloud helps conceal your origin and safeguard traffic when performing security research or connecting over untrusted networks. Algo VPN is an open-source bundle designed for self-hosted VPN services that's easy to deploy on DigitalOcean and relies only

In a strong cybersecurity assessment report, you rate each finding by its risk to the organization rather than its raw tool score. You give readers the context and remediation steps they need to act on it. This cheat sheet covers how to analyze the data, document scope and methodology, write up find

Healthcare workers wash hands more often when signs emphasize protecting patients rather than themselves, because people overestimate their own invulnerability but not others'. Security messaging may be more effective when highlighting risks to customers or colleagues rather than to the individuals

Decoys add strategic asymmetry to your security architecture, strengthening your advantage against the attacker. Plant tripwires across network, identity, data, and AI agent configs for high fidelity alerts.

Healthcare workers wash hands more often when signs emphasize protecting patients rather than themselves, because people overestimate their own invulnerability but not others'. Security messaging may be more effective when highlighting risks to customers or colleagues rather than to the individuals

Your AI agent's MCP config can be a target for an attacker who reaches your machine. A decoy MCP server entry pointing at a Cloudflare Worker can reveal the attacker's presence and their intent.