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recent posts
- What SOC 2 Does Not Cover and Why Organizations Assume It Does
- Netizen: Monday Security Brief (2/16/2026)
- What Continuous Compliance Monitoring Actually Looks Like in a Live SOC
- What Is Audit-Ready Logging and Why Most Environments Still Miss It
- Microsoft February 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes 58 Flaws, Six Actively Exploited Zero-Days
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SOC 2 is widely treated as a shorthand for “secure,” even though it was never designed to carry that meaning. Organizations point to a SOC 2 report as proof of maturity, customers accept it as assurance, and internal teams assume large portions of risk are addressed by default. The disconnect appears later, often during an…
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Continuous compliance monitoring only makes sense when it is grounded in daily security operations. Outside of a live SOC, it often turns into periodic reporting or a GRC exercise that struggles to reflect what is actually happening in the environment. Inside a SOC, it becomes a disciplined way of watching controls behave over time, using…
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Audit-ready logging is one of the most discussed security controls and one of the least consistently implemented. Nearly every organization believes it is logging enough until an audit, incident response engagement, or regulatory inquiry proves otherwise. At that point, logging gaps stop being a technical inconvenience and become a compliance and risk problem. At its…
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Microsoft’s February 2026 Patch Tuesday includes security updates for 58 vulnerabilities, with a heavy concentration of zero-days. Six vulnerabilities were actively exploited in the wild, three of which were also publicly disclosed prior to patching. Five vulnerabilities are classified as critical, including three elevation of privilege flaws and two information disclosure issues. Breakdown of Vulnerabilities…
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OpenClaw is an open-source, locally run autonomous AI assistant designed to act as a personal agent rather than a cloud-hosted service. Instead of routing prompts, context, and execution through a vendor-operated backend, OpenClaw runs directly on infrastructure chosen by the user, such as a laptop, homelab system, or virtual private server. Messaging integrations allow users…
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Personal AI assistants are being deployed on a trust model that would be rejected in most security programs: opaque data lineage, unverifiable context, weak separation of duties, and no dependable remediation path once incorrect state becomes operational. The outcomes are already visible. Agents act confidently on partial or stale context, collapse inference into fact, and…
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Security teams now operate in environments defined by cloud sprawl, short development cycles, and attacker activity that is increasingly designed to blend into normal operations. Static scanning and legacy rule sets were built for stable infrastructure and known signatures. They do not perform well against zero-day exploitation, credential abuse, or multi-stage intrusions that evolve inside…
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SOC-as-a-Service is still widely treated as a way to outsource alert monitoring and incident response. From a compliance perspective, that framing undersells its real value. In mature programs, SOCaaS functions as a standing regulatory control that supports continuous monitoring, formalized response, audit evidence generation, and long-term log governance across multiple frameworks at once. When implemented…
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Recent research from Anthropic-affiliated investigators provides one of the clearest quantitative signals yet that autonomous AI agents have crossed an important threshold in offensive security capability. Using a purpose-built benchmark focused on smart contract exploitation, the study measures success not by abstract accuracy metrics, but by simulated financial loss. The results indicate that current frontier…
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Microsoft’s January 2026 Patch Tuesday includes security updates for 114 vulnerabilities, including three zero-days. One of these flaws was actively exploited in the wild, while two had been publicly disclosed prior to patching. Eight vulnerabilities are classified as critical, consisting of six remote code execution flaws and two elevation of privilege issues. Breakdown of Vulnerabilities…
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