Quiet Risks – Pinpoint Protocol
Most people remember the classroom game Heads Up, Seven Up. Heads down. Eyes closed. A few people get tapped, and when it’s over, they have to guess who did it. Most of the time, they guess wrong. Not because they weren’t paying attention, but because there wasn’t enough signal to make a confident decision, and that dynamic […]
Technical Operations Matter – Pinpoint Protocol
In most environments, incidents don’t start with something obvious. They start with something that looked normal. A process that worked yesterday. A system behaving as expected. A control that technically exists, but hasn’t been exercised under pressure. Then something small breaks, and everything around it depends on how quickly the team can respond. That’s where […]
The Struggle With Clarity – Pinpoint Protocol
Last week at RSA, one theme showed up consistently across conversations with peers, vendors, and operators: We’re not lacking capability in cybersecurity.We’re struggling with clarity. There is no shortage of tools, telemetry, or intelligence. If anything, the industry has never been more advanced. But as environments become more complex, the challenge for leadership is no […]
Cognitive Saturation – Pinpoint Protocol
We don’t have a tooling problem in cybersecurity right now. We have a cognitive saturation problem. Too many alerts. Too many dashboards. Too many competing priorities. And when everything feels important, the one thing that actually matters becomes easier to miss. This week’s headlines reflect that clearly. A supply chain attack turned a trusted security tool into […]
Zoom Out – Pinpoint Protocol
A good way to stay grounded in cybersecurity is to zoom out and look at the full picture, not just individual headlines. This week’s headlines reflect that pretty clearly. A global disruption impacting operations across dozens of countries. Zero-days in widely used technologies. A cloud breach tied to an unpatched front-end vulnerability. A critical remote […]
Many Moving Parts – Pinpoint Protocol
Some weeks in cybersecurity feel like a reminder of how many moving parts we’re all responsible for watching. This was one of those weeks. Between a suspected supply-chain breach involving a telecommunications provider tied to a sensitive FBI system, dozens of firewall vulnerabilities requiring immediate patching, and another example of a third-party provider exposing telecom […]
Resilience Is Rarely Loud – Pinpoint Protocol
Some weeks in cybersecurity feel like watching the world move very quickly, and this was one of them. From browser vulnerabilities and mobile patches to large third-party data breaches and infrastructure warnings, the headlines reminded us just how interconnected everything has become. A browser extension here, a support vendor there, a network controller somewhere else…it’s […]
Deliberate Configuration – Pinpoint Protocol
I’ve always liked the moments when systems behave exactly the way they’re designed to. Clean logs, predictable processes, no surprises. In cybersecurity, that kind of stability isn’t luck — it’s the result of deliberate configuration, disciplined patching, and verifying that controls behave the way we expect. This week’s headlines highlight what happens when those assumptions […]
Resilience In Collaboration- Pinpoint Protocol
One of the things I appreciate most about working in Security is how often progress comes from helping someone else solve a problem. Whether it’s walking through a tricky alert, tuning a detection rule, or sharing a shortcut that saves someone an hour, resilience is built through steady collaboration. Strong programs don’t emerge from heroic […]
Love, Give, Learn, & Be A Good Steward – Pinpoint Protocol
This Saturday is Valentine’s Day, which might seem like an odd place to start a cybersecurity conversation — until you realize how much this work is ultimately about care and stewardship. We protect what we value. We show up for the people and systems that depend on us. And when we do security well, it’s […]
Subtle Risks – Pinpoint Protocol
There’s a moment on a long drive or a hike where you realize the biggest risks aren’t the obvious ones — they’re the small, familiar things you stopped paying attention to.
Risks Into Impact – Pinpoint Protocol
This week’s cybersecurity news was a good reminder of how quickly familiar risks can turn into real impact. Between ransomware claims involving a major supplier, a large consumer data leak becoming public months later, and new vulnerabilities actively being exploited, a clear pattern stood out to me: many of these incidents trace back to issues […]