Why This Story Doesn’t Add Up Let’s talk about this recent incident with OpenAI and their powerful model supposedly breaking out of its sandbox, talking to another AI system, and doing whatever else they claimed. The whole narrative is engineered for maximum publicity, and I am going to tell you why. Engineering integrity should never […]
People are losing their minds over this story about an AI model breaking out of a sandbox. The headlines make it sound like a sci-fi movie…Take that recent news about OpenAI. The reports claim an unreleased model broke out of its secure sandbox and started digging around on Hugging Face just to steal test answers. […]
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. […]
The Myth of the Silver Bullet Too many organizations today are under the impression that a collection of marketing buzzwords, EDR, XDR, Zero Trust, NGF, and the rest, constitutes a valid security program. They treat these acronyms as a substitute for actual strategy, delegating the entire responsibility to a team while the leadership remains detached. […]
The market is in a phase where “AI” has become a marketing label rather than a technical description. Vendors stretch, exaggerate, or outright misrepresent what their products actually do, and the industry is quietly normalizing it. I’ve personally seen platforms confidently branded as “AI‑driven” when, under the hood, they are nothing more than deterministic playbooks, […]
I have spent years watching organizations waste thousands of hours on vendor security assessments that produce nothing but noise. They send out hundred-question questionnaires. They demand SOC 2 reports. They ask for ISO certifications. They request NIST maturity scores. And at the end of all that paperwork, they still have no idea if the vendor […]
The Illusion of Coverage Many still confuse vulnerability scanning with penetration testing.They sound similar. They are not. One is automated noise.The other is a human discipline. A scan gives you a list.A pentest gives you a story. Lists are comfortable. They feel complete.Stories are uncomfortable. They expose what actually breaks. Most organizations choose comfort. Getting […]
we love buzzwords in cybersecurity. every few months the industry discovers a new shiny acronym, slaps it on the same old product, and suddenly we’re all supposed to believe the world has changed. now the magic word is “AI.” everything is “AI-powered,” “AI-enhanced,” “AI-driven.” but when you look under the hood, most of these so‑called […]
recently I heard someone confidently say: “you don’t need to learn how to code anymore. nobody needs to. AI will do it for you.” this is exactly the kind of thinking that keeps pushing us further away from understanding the root of anything. if we follow that logic, then we also don’t need to teach […]
The illusion of independence In 2025, the industry still repeats the same mistake: letting the same hands build the system and then “validate” it. That is not validation. That is self‑comfort. A consultant who deploys your environment cannot be the one who tests it. A builder cannot be the judge of their own shortcuts. A […]
Having conducted research in computer security since 1989, I have organically learned what research truly is and what I expect from it. To start with, perhaps it’s easier to say what is not considered research. These days, when people talk about research, they’re simply referring to Googling, or better yet, ChatGPT output. Neither is research. […]
The Excitement Is Premature Everyone wants agentic AI in security. Autonomous actions. Self-healing systems. Machines making decisions… Sounds efficient. Sounds inevitable. But are you ready? Or are you just tired of doing the work yourself? “Automation without understanding is just faster confusion.” The Missing Foundation It may sound strange, but if you have never experienced […]