Frontier AI just raised the stakes, and the old playbook won’t hold up
We all know the uncomfortable truth. No matter how many tools you buy or how mature your processes are, you’ll never achieve 100% prevention 100% of the time. Project Glasswing…
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A2A and MCP: The Open Protocol Stack Powering theMulti-Agent SOC
An alert fires at 2am. A Triage Agent inside Splunk enriches it in seconds. Then the workflow stops. Someone has to open a second tool to trigger the response. Someone…
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Identity Everywhere: Bringing Infrastructure Identity to Agentic IT
Every era of computing eventually exposes the assumptions that made the last era work. For decades, networking succeeded because it was mostly identity agnostic. Packets moved because they had addresses….
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OpenAI Slows Frontier AI Training as Astra Nears Critical Cyber Threshold
OpenAI is slowing parts of its frontier AI development as its newest models approach cybersecurity capabilities powerful enough to trigger the company’s highest-level safeguards. The company said Aug. 18 that…
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Meet Instant Attack Verification: Agentic AI for Tier-1 and Tier-2 SOC investigation
The alert problem every SOC knows Security operations centers are drowning in alerts. Volume grows faster than teams can hire; many of those alerts turn out to be false positives,…
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Zero Trust in the Frontier AI Era
As businesses lean on AI for productivity gains and better customer experiences, security teams are struggling to secure this adoption. This challenge is further compounded by frontier AI models like…
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Educate at Event Speed: Cisco Live SOC
At Cisco Live AMER 2026 in Las Vegas, my work with the Cisco Event SOC centered on one outcome that makes these deployments valuable beyond the event itself: Education. The…
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Machine Speed, Human Judgement: How AI Changed the SOC in 2026
Having worked across nearly every layer of cybersecurity – from analyst to CISO for two different organizations – I have seen firsthand how difficult security investigations used to be. I…
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AI-Powered Workflow Run Summaries in Cisco XDR
If you’ve ever troubleshot a complex workflow run, you know the drill: click into actions, expand inputs and outputs, scan logs, backtrack, repeat. When something goes wrong, the signal is there, but it’s buried…
