The Hidden Cost of “Just Reset Their Password” Culture
Most enterprises treat password resets as a service desk ticket. They are, in fact, the symptom of a credential management strategy that quietly costs millions in time, productivity, and unmeasured risk. Here’s what it actually looks like — and how mature organisations are dismantling it.
Why Your SOC Is Drowning in EDR Alerts (And What Actually Helps)
The promise of EDR was high-fidelity endpoint visibility. The reality, in most enterprise SOCs, is alert volume that has overwhelmed the analyst capacity to investigate. The fix is not more analysts. Here is what is actually working.
The 5-Minute Board Brief: Explaining Cyber Risk to Non-Technical Directors
CISOs are routinely asked to brief boards on cyber risk in five to ten minutes. Most struggle with the format because the technical details that matter to security teams do not translate to the questions a board is actually trying to answer. Here is a framework that does.
What We Learned From 47 Penetration Tests in Q1 2026
We completed 47 penetration tests for clients during Q1 2026, ranging from external network assessments to threat-led penetration tests against critical national infrastructure. The findings were not the surprising part. The patterns across findings — what consistently goes wrong, and where defenders are now winning — were.
The Quiet Risk of Shadow SaaS in UK Mid-Market Companies
UK mid-market enterprises — typically 250 to 2,000 employees — have a structural blind spot that is now driving a measurable proportion of breaches. It is not malware. It is not a sophisticated adversary. It is the SaaS application that someone in marketing signed up for last year, with a corporate credit card, and that nobody in IT has ever heard of.
AI Is Now in Your SOC. Here’s What That Actually Means.
Every detection-and-response platform in the market now claims AI as a core capability. For SOC teams who have lived through previous AI cycles, scepticism is reasonable — but this time the underlying technology has actually delivered. The interesting question is not whether AI works, but what it changes in how SOCs operate.