Running in Circles
You are lost in a security rabbit hole, and you are not getting any closer to being secure. You think you are making progress, but you are not. You keep investing in products and services, yet your risk remains the same. The reason is simple: you are taking the entirely wrong route. And when the path is incorrect, you will never, ever reach the destination.
This is exactly what mainstream security loves to see. The market thrives when you are on the wrong path forever, so they can sell you irrelevant products again and again. It is a massive waste of time and money, and it leaves you with nothing but a false sense of security. If you haven’t been hacked yet, the only reason is that you have not been targeted. It is time to stop and think about what I am saying!
The Right Route
The correct path is the one where you truly think like a hacker. You need to stop everything and act like one. A real hacker, one who certainly breaks into a system, is someone who sees a system. They do not see an isolated piece of software or a specific network segment. They see an entire process.
None of the tools you are buying give you that perspective. Fundamentally, they cannot. The only thing that comes slightly close to what I am talking about is Mythos from Anthropic, but that is still far from the deep mind of a hacker. The true vulnerability is often not in the code itself, but in the system.
The Method over the Vulnerability
I have ethically broken into many seemingly solid systems where the isolated pieces of that system looked perfectly secure. But the system itself gave me the methodology to break in. This is what I taught people for decades in my “Security from Hacking” specialty courses. You would be amazed by the simplicity of many of these methodologies and hacking models.
What I am saying is universally true, and it has not changed. The same systematic thinking and identifying the way to get in applies to today’s complex cloud software, just like the way I cracked software when I was 13 years old. The method is different from the vulnerability. As I have said million times:
“Understanding the machine is always more valuable than using the machine.”
Keep following the mainstream, and you will never finish running after security. Stop and think like a hacker, and in less than a year, you can secure the most sophisticated software systems. The choice is yours.