Perspectives

On the systems, threats, and decisions reshaping enterprise security.

Field-informed analysis for leaders responsible for critical operations, security architecture, resilience, and investment.

Executive Briefing · Governance and board reporting · 4 min read

What boards misunderstand about OT security

Directors are briefed on cyber risk in the language of data. Operational technology fails in the language of production, safety, and availability, and the usual board reporting is not built to show it.

October 13, 2026

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Technical Analysis · Data centers and digital infrastructure · 4 min read

The data-center attack surface beyond the network

Asset inventories in most data centers stop at the things that carry traffic. The systems that decide whether the room stays cold, powered, and closed are rarely in scope, and they are increasingly reachable.

September 8, 2026

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Perspective · Identity and access · 3 min read

Identity is becoming the control plane for both the digital and physical enterprise

Access to cloud platforms, networks, facilities, building systems, vendors, and critical operations increasingly depends on shared identity infrastructure. Most security models still assess those dependencies separately.

August 4, 2026

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Executive Briefing · AI-enabled threats · 2 min read

AI-enabled attacks and the collapse of traditional trust signals

Voice, writing style, video presence, and urgency used to help people judge authenticity. AI has made every one of those signals reproducible, and most verification procedures have not caught up.

July 14, 2026

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Field Note · Cyber-physical convergence · 2 min read

Why privileged access and physical access belong in the same risk model

Organizations run mature programs for privileged digital accounts and separate, older processes for keys, badges, and vendor site access. Attackers treat them as one system, because they are.

June 9, 2026

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