Beyond the Alert
Beyond the Alert features security operations leaders and SOC professionals sharing battle-tested insights on scaling security capabilities, managing high-performing teams, and leveraging emerging technologies to transform their operations.
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AI just handed attackers a hundred-fold army | Jeffrey Bernstein, Critical Defence (opens the original)
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AI hands attackers a hundred-fold army and drops the skill needed to launch plug-and-play attacks. Jeffrey Bernstein , Founder and Managing Director of Critical Defence , has spent 25 years responding to breaches, and he tells Anne why the same automation speeding up defenders is making attackers faster and harder to trace. He breaks down his investigate, isolate, eradicate approach, why 99% of wire fraud victims he sees skip MFA, and how his team clawed one ransomware victim back to 86% recover
Why phishing still works, and why more tools won't fix it (opens the original)
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Phishing still works, and Randy Rose argues more tools won't fix it. The VP of Security Operations and Intelligence at the Center for Internet Security brings a forensic anthropology background to cyber, treating attackers as humans with repeatable patterns rather than technical indicators to chase. He walks host Anne through mental malware, the old-brain versus new-brain conflict attackers exploit, why SOC analysts need air traffic control style breaks, and how to make users the first line of d
Why every SOC will be agent-first within five years (opens the original)
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Within five years, every organization defending a network will run an agent-first posture, and analysts who can't operate agents won't have jobs. Jason Rivera , Field CISO and Head of Solution Engineering at SimSpace , explains why intelligent autonomous adversaries turn cybersecurity from a responsive discipline into a preemptive one. Jason walks Anne through building muscle memory for threats that don't exist yet, the DMZ chatbot exercises that expose new vulnerabilities, and the three-part pr
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