A Chrome browser extension with 6 million users, as well as seven other Chrome and Edge extensions, for months have been silently collecting data from every AI chatbot conversion, packaging it, and then selling it to third parties like advertisers and data brokers, according to Koi Security.
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As holiday lights go up and inboxes fill with year-in-review emails, it’s tempting to look back on 2025 as “the year of AI.”
But for security teams, it was something more specific – the year APIs, AI agents, and MCP servers collided across the API fabric, expanding the attack surface faster than most organizations could keep up.
At Salt Security, we spent 2025 focused on one thing: defending the API action layer where AI, applications, and data intersect. And we did it with a steady drumbeat of innovation, a new “gift” for security teams almost every month.
So in the spirit of the season, here’s a look back at Salt’s 12 Months of Innovation – a year-long series of product launches, partnerships, and research milestones designed to help organizations stay ahead of fast-moving threats.
We kicked off the year by shining a harsh light on what many teams already suspected:
Early 2025 research and thought leadership from Salt Labs showed just how dangerous it is to run modern AI and automation on top of APIs you don’t fully understand or control.
Takeaway: January set the tone – defending tomorrow’s API fabric with yesterday’s tools is no longer an option.
In February, we went from “we think we have a problem” to “here are the numbers.”
With the latest State of API Security Report and key industry recognitions such as inclusion in top security lists, Salt brought hard data to boardroom and CISO conversations.
The message was clear:
Takeaway: API security is no longer a niche concern. It’s a business risk that demands strategy, budget, and board-level attention.
March blended validation and urgency.
On one side, industry bodies recognized Salt’s leadership with awards like a Gold Globee, underscoring the maturity and impact of our platform.
On the other, new blogs and research highlighted reality on the ground:
Takeaway: Excellence in API security isn’t just about winning awards, it’s about staying ahead of adversaries who are constantly adapting.
In April, collaboration took center stage.
We deepened integrations with leading platforms such as CrowdStrike and expanded support for modern ecosystems, including MCP server–driven architectures.
By weaving Salt API intelligence into tools security teams already rely on, we helped customers:
Takeaway: API and AI security are team sports. Partnerships and integrations turn siloed tools into a cohesive defense fabric.
By May, the conversation had shifted from “we’re moving to the cloud” to “our entire business depends on it.”
Salt expanded coverage and governance capabilities for leading cloud environments and partners, helping customers:
Takeaway: In 2025, API security moved squarely into the boardroom as a core pillar of enterprise risk.
June was all about turning on the lights.
We launched Salt Illuminate and expanded Cloud Connect, giving customers the ability to:
Takeaway: You can’t protect what you can’t see. Illuminate gave teams the visibility foundation they’ve been missing.
In July, the stakes became very real.
High-profile AI mishaps, including incidents like the McDonald’s chatbot breach, made one thing painfully obvious: conversational AI and digital experiences are only as safe as the APIs behind them.
Salt responded with:
Takeaway: 2025 was the year CISOs started asking not just “What APIs do we have?” but “Which of these are exposed, exploitable, and business-critical?”
By August, “autonomous” wasn’t just a buzzword, it was a roadmap theme.
Organizations leaned hard into:
Salt’s innovation in this space emphasized a key reality: AI, autonomy, and APIs are inseparable.
We advanced protections for autonomous threat hunting and AI-driven security use cases, reinforcing that if APIs are compromised, autonomous systems are too.
Takeaway: You can’t secure autonomous operations if you’re not securing the API action layer that powers them.
September was a turning point.
Salt introduced the industry’s first solution to secure AI agent actions across APIs and MCP servers, bringing real controls to a problem that had mostly been theoretical.
This meant:
Takeaway: The AI agent revolution doesn’t have to be a security nightmare — if you secure the actions, not just the model.
In October, new data from Salt and customer environments revealed how deep the AI + API blind spots really go.
We broke down:
Through detailed analysis and practical guidance, we helped teams turn confusion into a roadmap for modernizing their security posture.
Takeaway: Education is as important as technology. You can’t fix what you don’t fully understand.
November brought a massive step forward in shifting API security left and right at the same time.
We launched:
Combined with runtime intelligence from the Salt platform, customers could now connect:
Takeaway: Real API security covers the full lifecycle, from design and code to production traffic and AI-agent actions.
We closed the year with a new kind of experience: Ask Pepper AI.
Ask Pepper AI turns Salt’s platform into a conversational partner, letting users:
Alongside MCP protection for AWS WAF, December marked the next stage in our vision: API security that’s not just powerful, but accessible and intuitive.
Takeaway: When security teams can simply ask questions and get meaningful, contextual answers, they move faster, and so does the business.
If 2025 was the year APIs fully merged with AI agents, automation, and MCP servers, 2026 will be the year organizations either embrace the API action layer or fall behind those that do.
At Salt Security, our focus remains the same:
The 12 Months of Innovation were just the beginning. The threats are evolving, and so are we.
If you want to learn more about Salt and how we can help you, please contact us, schedule a demo, or visit our website. You can also get a free API Attack Surface Assessment from Salt Security's research team and learn what attackers already know.
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Introduction Let’s be honest — passwords are a pain. They’re either too simple and easy to guess, or so complicated […]
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It’s not always immediately clear why your IP has been listed or how to fix it. To help, we’ve added a new “troubleshooting” step to the IP & Domain Reputation Checker, specifically for those whose IPs have been listed on the Combined Spam Sources (CSS) Blocklist - IPs associated with low-reputation email. Learn how you can diagnose the issue using this new feature.
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In an era marked by escalating cyber threats and evolving risk landscapes, organisations face mounting pressure to strengthen their security posture whilst maintaining seamless user experiences. At Thales, we recognise that robust security must be foundational – embedded into products and services by design, not bolted on as an afterthought. This principle underpins our commitment […]
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A seismic shift in digital systems is underway — and most people are missing it.
Related: Edge AI at the chip layer
While generative AI demos and LLM hype steal the spotlight, enterprise infrastructure is being quietly re-architected, not from … (more…)
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Originally published at IP Blacklist Check: How to Recover and Prevent Blacklisted IP Addresses by EasyDMARC.
When your emails suddenly stop reaching inboxes, one ...
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As Artificial Intelligence technology rapidly advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) are being widely adopted across countless domains. However, with this growth comes a critical challenge: LLM security issues are becoming increasingly prominent, posing a major constraint on further development. Governments and regulatory bodies are responding with policies and regulations to ensure the safety and compliance […]
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For a long time, DDoS attacks were easy to recognize. They were loud, messy, and built on raw throughput. Attackers controlled massive botnets and flooded targets until bandwidth or infrastructure collapsed. It was mostly a scale problem, not an engineering one. That era is ending. A quieter and far more refined threat has taken its […]
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Discover how homomorphic encryption (HE) enhances privacy-preserving model context sharing in AI, ensuring secure data handling and compliance for MCP deployments.
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Explore the differences between LDAP and Single Sign-On (SSO) for user authentication. Understand their use cases, benefits, and how they fit into your enterprise security strategy.
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Learn how to configure users without OTP login in your applications. This guide covers conditional authentication, account settings, and fallback mechanisms for seamless access.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Richmond, VA — December 11, 2025 — Assura is proud to announce that it has been named to the MSSP Alert and CyberRisk Alliance partnership’s prestigious Top 250 MSSPs list for 2025, securing the #94 position among the world’s leading Managed Security Service Providers. “Making The Top 100 is an incredible milestone and testament to the… Continue reading Assura Named to MSSP Alert and Cyber Alliance’s 2025 “Top 250 MSSPs,” Ranking at Number 94
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Researchers with Google Threat Intelligence Group have detected five China-nexus threat groups exploiting the maximum-security React2Shell security flaw to drop a number of malicious payloads, from backdoors to downloaders to tunnelers.
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Ambiguity isn't just a challenge. It's a leadership test - and most fail it.
I want to start with something that feels true but gets ignored way too often.
Most of us in leadership roles have a love hate relationship with ambiguity. We say we embrace it... until it shows up for real. Then we freeze, hedge our words, or pretend we have a plan. Cybersecurity teams deal with ambiguity all the time. Its in threat intel you cant quite trust, in stakeholder demands that swing faster than markets, in patch rollouts that go sideways. But ambiguity isnt a bug to be fixed. Its a condition to be led through.
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Lets break this down the way I see it, without jazz hands or buzzwords.
Uncertainty is when you lack enough data to decide. Ambiguity is when even the terms of the problem are in dispute. Its not just what we don't know. Its what we cant define yet. In leadership terms, that feels like being handed a puzzle where some pieces aren't even shaped yet. This is classic VUCA territory - volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity make up the modern landscape leaders sit in every day.
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Here is the blunt truth. Great leaders don't eliminate ambiguity. They engage with it. They treat ambiguity like a partner you've gotta dance with, not a foe to crush.
When a situation is ambiguous, its telling you something. Its saying your models are incomplete, or your language isn't shared, or your team has gaps in context. Stanford researchers and communication experts have been talking about this recently: ambiguity often reflects a gap in the shared mental model across the team. If you're confused, your team probably is too.
A lot of leadership texts treat ambiguity like an enemy of clarity. But thats backward. Ambiguity is the condition that demands sensemaking. Sensemaking is the real work. Its the pattern of dialogue and iteration that leads to shared understanding amid chaos. That means asking the hard questions out loud, not silently wishing for clarity.
If your team seems paralyzed, unclear, or checked out - it might not be them. It might be you.
Think about that phrase. Calm confusion. Leaders rarely say, "I don't know." Instead they hedge, hide, or overcommit. But leaders who effectively navigate ambiguity do speak up about what they don't know. Not to sound vulnerable in a soft way, but to anchor the discussion in reality. That model gives permission for others to explore unknowns without fear.
I once watched a director hold a 45-minute meeting to "gain alignment" without once stating the problem. Everyone left more confused than when they walked in. That’s not leadership. That's cover.
There is a delicate balance here. You don't turn every ambiguous situation into a therapy session. Instead, you create boundaries around confusion so the team knows where exploration stops and action begins. Good leaders hold this tension.
Here is a practical bit. One common way to get stuck is treating decisions as if they're singular. But ambiguous situations usually contain clusters of decisions wrapped together. A good framework is to break the big, foggy problem into smaller, more combinable decisions. Clarify what is known, identify the assumptions you are making, and make provisional calls on the rest. Treat them like hypotheses to test, not laws of motion.
In cybersecurity, this looks like mapping your threat intel to scenarios where you know the facts, then isolating the areas of guesswork where your team can experiment or prepare contingencies. Its not clean. But it beats paralysis.
If you have ever noticed that your best team members step up in times of clear crises, but shut down when the goals are vague, you're observing humans responding to ambiguity differently. Some thirst for structure. Others thrive in gray zones. As a leader, you want both. You shape the context so self starters can self start, and then you steward alignment so the whole group isnt pulling in four directions.
Theres a counterintuitive finding in team research: under certain conditions, ambiguity enables better collaborative decision making because the absence of a single voice forces people to share and integrate knowledge more deeply. But this only works when there is a shared understanding of the task and a culture of open exchange.
Managing ambiguity sounds like you're trying to tighten it up, reduce it, or push it into a box. Leading ambiguity is different. It's about moving with the uncertainty. Encouraging experiments. Turning unknowns into learning loops. Recognizing iterative decision processes rather than linear ones.
And yes, that approach feels messy. Good. Leadership is messy. The only thing worse than ambiguity is false certainty. I've been in too many rooms where leaders pretended to know the answer, only to cost time, credibility, or talent. You can be confident without being certain. That's leadership.
But there's a flip side no one talks about.
Sometimes leaders use ambiguity as a shield. They stay vague, push decisions down the org, and let someone else take the hit if it goes sideways. I've seen this pattern more than once. Leaders who pass the fog downstream and call it empowerment. Except it's not. It's evasion. And it sets people up to fail.
Real leaders see ambiguity for what it is: a moment to step up and mentor. To frame the unknowns, offer scaffolding, and help others think through it with some air cover. The fog is a chance to teach — not disappear.
But the hard truth? Some leaders can't handle the ambiguity themselves. So they deflect. They repackage their own discomfort as a test of independence, when really they're just dodging responsibility. And sometimes, yeah, it feels intentional. They act like ambiguity builds character... but only because they're too insecure or inexperienced to lead through it.
The result is the same: good people get whiplash. Goals shift. Ownership blurs. Trust erodes. And the fog thickens.
There's research on this, too. It's called role ambiguity — when you're not clear on what's expected, what your job even is, or how success gets measured. People in those situations don't just get frustrated. They burn out. They overcompensate for silence. They stop trusting. And productivity tanks. It's not about needing a five-year plan. It's about needing a shared frame to work from. Leadership sets that tone.
Leading ambiguity means owning the fog, not outsourcing it.
Ambiguity isn't a one-off problem. It's a perpetual condition, especially in cybersecurity and executive realms where signals are weak and stakes are high. The real skill isn't clarity. It's resilience. The real job isn't prediction. It's navigation.
Lead through ambiguity by embracing the fog, not burying it. And definitely not dumping it on someone else.
When the fog rolls in, what kind of leader are you really?
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VUCA definition and relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VUCA
Communicating amid change and ambiguity: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/06/ambiguity-leadership-communication-rob-siegel-think-fast-talk-smart/
Breaking down decisions amid ambiguity: https://www.conversant.com/resources/leading-in-ambiguity-effective-decision-making-for-leaders/
Ambiguity and team decision quality: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8236615/
Role ambiguity and stress outcomes: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5767326/
Ambiguity, leadership behavior, and burnout: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/15/11/424
Leader ambiguity tolerance and follower performance: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356021331_Leader_Tolerance_of_Ambiguity_Implications_for_Follower_Performance_Outcomes_in_High_and_Low_Ambiguous_Work_Situations
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Session 6B: Confidential Computing 1
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Maryam Rostamipoor (Stony Brook University), Seyedhamed Ghavamnia (University of Connecticut), Michalis Polychronakis (Stony Brook University)
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LeakLess: Selective Data Protection against Memory Leakage Attacks for Serverless Platforms
As the use of language-level sandboxing for running untrusted code grows, the risks associated with memory disclosure vulnerabilities and transient execution attacks become increasingly significant. Besides the execution of untrusted JavaScript or WebAssembly code in web browsers, serverless environments have also started relying on language-level isolation to improve scalability by running multiple functions from different customers within a single process. Web browsers have adopted process-level sandboxing to mitigate memory leakage attacks, but this solution is not applicable in serverless environments, as running each function as a separate process would negate the performance benefits of language-level isolation. In this paper we present LeakLess, a selective data protection approach for serverless computing platforms. LeakLess alleviates the limitations of previous selective data protection techniques by combining in-memory encryption with a separate I/O module to enable the safe transmission of the protected data between serverless functions and external hosts. We implemented LeakLess on top of the Spin serverless platform, and evaluated it with real-world serverless applications. Our results demonstrate that LeakLess offers robust protection while incurring a minor throughput decrease under stress-testing conditions of up to 2.8% when the I/O module runs on a different host than the Spin runtime, and up to 8.5% when it runs on the same host.
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Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.
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Frankfurt, Dec. 16, 2025, CyberNewswire — Link11, a European provider of web infrastructure security solutions, has released new insights outlining five key cybersecurity developments expected to influence how organizations across Europe prepare for and respond to threats in 2026.… (more…)
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After our research on Cursor, in the context of developer-ecosystem security, we turn our attention to the Jupyter ecosystem. We expose security risks we identified in the notebook’s export functionality, in the default Windows environment, to help organizations better protect their assets and networks. Executive Summary We identified a new way external Jupyter notebooks could […]
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Veza has added a platform to its portfolio that is specifically designed to secure and govern artificial intelligence (AI) agents that might soon be strewn across the enterprise. Currently in the process of being acquired by ServiceNow, the platform is based on an Access Graph the company previously developed to provide cybersecurity teams with a..
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Zero Trust has become the strategic anchor for modern cybersecurity. Every board is asking for it, every vendor claims to support it, and every CISO is under pressure to make...
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Over the past week, enterprise security teams observed a combination of covert malware communication attempts and aggressive probing of publicly exposed infrastructure. These incidents, detected across firewall and endpoint security layers, demonstrate how modern cyber attackers operate simultaneously. While quietly activating compromised internal systems, they also relentlessly scan external services for exploitable weaknesses. Although the
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As cyber threats against regulated industries continue to escalate in scale, sophistication, and financial impact, organizations are under immense pressure to modernize security operations while meeting strict compliance requirements. Addressing this urgent need, Seceon has announced a strategic partnership with InterSources Inc., expanding the delivery of AI-driven cybersecurity solutions across some of the world’s most
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Whether you’re generating data from scratch or transforming sensitive production data, performant test data generators are critical tools for achieving compliance in development workflows.
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Identity systems hold modern life together, yet we barely notice them until they fail. Every time someone starts a new job, crosses a border, or walks into a secure building, an official must answer one deceptively simple question: Is this person really who they claim to be? That single moment—matching a living, breathing human to..
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Over the past week, enterprise security teams observed a combination of covert malware communication attempts and aggressive probing of publicly exposed infrastructure. These incidents, detected across firewall and endpoint security layers, demonstrate how modern cyber attackers operate simultaneously. While quietly activating compromised internal systems, they also relentlessly scan external services for exploitable weaknesses. Although the
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Labeling adversary activity with ATT&CK techniques is a tried-and-true method for classifying behavior. But it rarely tells defenders how those behaviors are executed in real environments.
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As organizations accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, from deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) to integrating autonomous agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, risk management has transitioned from a theoretical exercise to a critical business imperative. The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) has emerged as the standard for managing these risks, offering a structured approach to designing, developing, and deploying trustworthy AI systems.
However, AI systems do not operate in isolation. They rely heavily on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to ingest training data, serve model inferences, and facilitate communication between agents and servers. Consequently, the API attack surface effectively becomes the AI attack surface. Securing these API pathways is fundamental to achieving the "Secure and Resilient" and "Privacy-Enhanced" characteristics mandated by the framework.
The NIST AI RMF is organized around four core functions that provide a structure for managing risk throughout the AI lifecycle:
While the "GOVERN" function in the NIST framework focuses on organizational culture and policies, API Posture Governance serves as the technical enforcement mechanism for these policies in operational environments.
Without robust API posture governance, organizations struggle to effectively Manage or Govern their AI risks. Unvetted AI models may be deployed via shadow APIs, and sensitive training data can be exposed through misconfigurations. Automating posture governance ensures that every API connected to an AI system adheres to security standards, preventing the deployment of insecure models and ensuring your AI infrastructure remains compliant by design.
Salt Security provides a tailored solution that aligns directly with the NIST AI RMF. By securing the API layer (Agentic AI Action Layer), Salt Security helps organizations maintain the integrity of their AI systems and safeguard sensitive data. The key features, along with their direct correlations to NIST AI RMF functions, include:
Trustworthy AI requires secure APIs. By implementing API Posture Governance and comprehensive security controls, organizations can confidently adopt the NIST AI RMF and innovate safely. Salt Security provides the visibility and protection needed to secure the critical infrastructure powering your AI. For a more in-depth understanding of API security compliance across multiple regulations, please refer to our comprehensive API Compliance Whitepaper.
If you want to learn more about Salt and how we can help you, please contact us, schedule a demo, or visit our website. You can also get a free API Attack Surface Assessment from Salt Security's research team and learn what attackers already know.
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Breaking Free from Security Silos in the Modern Enterprise Today’s organizations face an unprecedented challenge: securing increasingly complex IT environments that span on-premises data centers, multiple cloud platforms, and hybrid architectures. Traditional security approaches that rely on disparate point solutions are failing to keep pace with sophisticated threats, leaving critical gaps in visibility and response
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SoundCloud confirmed today that it experienced a security incident involving unauthorized access to a supporting internal system, resulting in the exposure of certain user data. The company said the incident affected approximately 20 percent of its users and involved email addresses along with information already visible on public SoundCloud profiles. Passwords and financial information were […]
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This article was originally published in T.H.E. Journal on 12/10/25 by Charlie Sander. Device-based learning is no longer “new,” but many schools still lack a coherent playbook for managing it. Many school districts dashed to adopt 1:1 computing during the pandemic, spending $48 million on new devices to ensure every child had a platform to take classes ...
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The coming shift to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is not a distant, abstract threat—it is the single largest, most complex cryptographic migration in the history of cybersecurity. Major breakthroughs are being made with the technology. Google announced on October 22nd, “research that shows, for the first time in history, that a quantum computer can successfully run a verifiable algorithm on hardware, surpassing even the fastest classical supercomputers (13,000x faster).” It has the potential to disrupt every industry. Organizations must be ready to prepare now or pay later.
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Why fixing every vulnerability is impossible—and unnecessary. Learn how risk-based vulnerability management prioritizes what to patch, what to defer, and why context matters more than CVSS.
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In early December 2025, the React core team disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting React Server Components (RSC). These issues – Denial-of-Service and Source Code Exposure were found by security researchers probing the fixes for the previous week’s critical RSC vulnerability, known as “React2Shell”. While these newly discovered bugs do not enable Remote Code Execution, meaning […]
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You’ve spent weeks, maybe months, crafting your dream Electron app. The UI looks clean, the features work flawlessly, and you finally hit that Build button. Excited, you send the installer to your friend for testing. You’re expecting a “Wow, this is awesome!” Instead, you get: Windows protected your PC. Unknown Publisher.” That bright blue SmartScreen… Read More How to Sign a Windows App with Electron Builder?
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Explore how AI-driven threat detection can secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments from data manipulation attempts, with a focus on post-quantum security.
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How a simple “I found your photo” message can quietly take over your account
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There's a strange thing that happens when a person you once knew as your child seems, over years, to forget the sound of your voice, the feel of your laugh, or the way your presence once grounded them. It isnt just loss - it's an internal inversion: your love becomes a shadow. Something haunting, familiar, yet painful to face.
I know this because I lived it - decade after decade - as the father of two sons, now ages 28 and 26. What has stayed with me isn't just the external stripping away of connection, but the internal fracture it caused in myself.
Some days I felt like the person I was before alienation didn't exist anymore. Not because I lost my identity, but because I was forced to confront parts of myself I never knew were there - deep fears, hidden hopes, unexamined beliefs about love, worth, and attachment.
This isn't a story of blame. It's a story of honesty with the inner terrain - the emotional geography that alienation carved into my heart.
Love doesn't disappear when a child's affection is withdrawn. Instead, it changes shape. It becomes more subtle, less spoken, but no less alive.
When your kids are little, love shows up in bedtime stories, laughter, scraped knees, and easy smiles. When they're adults and distant, love shows up in the quiet hurt - the way you notice an empty chair, or a text that never came, or the echo of a memory that still makes your heart ache.
This kind of love doesn't vanish. It becomes a quiet force pulling you inward - toward reflection instead of reaction, toward steadiness instead of collapse.
There's a psychological reality at play here that goes beyond custody schedules, angry words, or fractured holidays. When a person - especially a young person - bonds with one attachment figure and rejects another, something profound is happening in the architecture of their emotional brain.
In some dynamics of parental influence, children form a hyper‑focused attachment to one caregiver and turn away from the other. That pattern isn't about rational choice but emotional survival. Attachment drives us to protect what feels safe and to fear what feels unsafe - even when the fear isn't grounded in reality. High Conflict Institute
When my sons leaned with all their emotional weight toward their mother - even to the point of believing impossible things about me - it was never just "obedience." It was attachment in overdrive: a neural pull toward what felt like safety, acceptance, or approval. And when that sense of safety was threatened by even a hint of disapproval, the defensive system in their psyche kicked into high gear.
This isn't a moral judgment. It's the brain trying to survive.
Here's the part no one talks about in polite conversation:
You can love someone deeply and grieve their absence just as deeply - at the same time.
It's one of the paradoxes that stays with you long after the world expects you to "move on."
You can hope that the door will open someday
and you can also acknowledge it may never open in this lifetime.
You can forgive the emotional wounds that were inflicted
and also mourn the lost years that you'll never get back.
You can love someone unconditionally
and still refuse to let that love turn into self‑erosion.
This tension - this bittersweet coexistence - becomes a part of your inner life.
This is where the real work lives.
When children grow up in an environment where one caregiver's approval feels like survival, the attachment system can begin to over‑regulate itself. Instead of trust being distributed across relationships, it narrows. The safe figure becomes everything. The other becomes threatening by association, even when there's no rational basis for fear. Men and Families
For my sons, that meant years of believing narratives that didn't fit reality - like refusing to consider documented proof of child support, or assigning malicious intent to benign situations. When confronted with facts, they didn't question the narrative - they rationalized it to preserve the internal emotional logic they had built around attachment and fear.
That's not weakness. That's how emotional survival systems work.
One of the hardest lessons is learning to hold ambivalence without distortion. In healthy relational development, people can feel both love and disappointment, both closeness and distance, both gratitude and grief - all without collapsing into one extreme or the other.
But in severe attachment distortion, the emotional brain tries to eliminate complexity - because complexity feels dangerous. It feels unstable. It feels like uncertainty. And the emotional brain prefers certainty, even if that certainty is painful. Karen Woodall
Learning to tolerate ambiguity - that strange space where love and loss coexist - becomes a form of inner strength.
I write this not to indict, accuse, or vilify anyone. The human psyche is far more complicated than simple cause‑and‑effect. What I've learned - through years of quiet reflection - is that:
Attachment wounds run deep, and they can overshadow logic and memory.
People don't reject love lightly. They reject fear and threat.
Healing isn't an event. It's a series of small acts of awareness and presence.
Your internal world is the only place you can truly govern. External reality is negotiable - inner life is not.
I have a quiet hope - not a loud demand - that one day my sons will look back and see the patterns that were invisible to them before. Not to blame. Not to re‑assign guilt. But to understand.
Hope isn't a promise. It's a stance of openness - a willingness to stay emotionally available without collapsing into desperation.
Healing isn't about winning back what was lost. It's about cultivating a life that holds the loss with compassion and still knows how to turn toward joy when it appears - quietly, softly, unexpectedly.
Your heart doesn't have to choose between love and grief. It can carry both.
And in that carrying, something deeper begins to grow.
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Parental Alienation & Emotional Impact
International Society for the New Definition of Abuse & Family Violence - overview on parental alienation as child abuse: https://isnaf.info/our-mission-2/
Research on adult impacts of alienating behaviours (mental health, trauma, identity): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9026878/
Attachment & Alienation Theory
Attachment and alienation discussion from High Conflict Institute: https://www.highconflictinstitute.com/attachment-and-alienation/
Attachment‑based model of parental alienation (PDF overview): https://menandfamilies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/An-Attachment-Based-Model-of-Parental-Alienation-Foundations.pdf
General Parental Alienation Background
Wikipedia on parental alienation (neutral background): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_alienation
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In cybersecurity, being “always on” is often treated like a badge of honor.
We celebrate the leaders who respond at all hours, who jump into every incident, who never seem to unplug. Availability gets confused with commitment. Urgency gets mistaken for effectiveness. And somewhere along the way, exhaustion becomes normalized—if not quietly admired.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Always-on leadership doesn’t scale. And over time, it becomes a liability.
I’ve seen it firsthand, and if you’ve spent any real time in high-pressure security environments, you probably have too.
The Myth of Constant Availability
Cybersecurity is unforgiving. Threats don’t wait for business hours. Incidents don’t respect calendars. That reality creates a subtle but dangerous expectation: real leaders are always reachable.
The problem isn’t short-term intensity. The problem is when intensity becomes an identity.
When leaders feel compelled to be everywhere, all the time, a few things start to happen:
Decision quality quietly degrades
Teams become dependent instead of empowered
Strategic thinking gets crowded out by reactive work
From the outside, it can look like dedication. From the inside, it often feels like survival mode.
And survival mode is a terrible place to lead from.
Burnout isn’t just about being tired. It’s about losing margin—mental, emotional, and strategic margin.
Leaders without margin:
Default to familiar solutions instead of better ones
React instead of anticipate
Solve today’s problem at the expense of tomorrow’s resilience
In cybersecurity, that’s especially dangerous. This field demands clarity under pressure, judgment amid noise, and the ability to zoom out when everything is screaming “zoom in.”
When leaders are depleted, those skills are the first to go.
One of the biggest mindset shifts I’ve seen in effective leaders is this:
They stop trying to be the system and start building one.
That means:
Creating clear decision boundaries so teams don’t need constant escalation
Trusting people with ownership, not just tasks
Designing escalation paths that protect focus instead of destroying it
This isn’t about disengaging. It’s about leading intentionally.
Ironically, the leaders who are least available at all times are often the ones whose teams perform best—because the system works even when they step away.
There’s a difference between being reachable and being present.
Presence is about:
Showing up fully when it matters
Making thoughtful decisions instead of fast ones
Modeling sustainable behavior for teams that are already under pressure
When leaders never disconnect, they send a message—even if unintentionally—that rest is optional and boundaries are weakness. Over time, that culture burns people out long before the threat landscape does.
Good leaders protect their teams.
Great leaders also protect their own capacity to lead.
In a field obsessed with uptime, response times, and coverage, it’s worth asking a harder question:
If I stepped away for a week, would things fall apart—or function as designed?
If the answer is “fall apart,” that’s not a personal failure. It’s a leadership signal. One that points to opportunity, not inadequacy.
The strongest leaders I know aren’t always on.
They’re intentional. They’re disciplined. And they understand that long-term effectiveness requires more than endurance—it requires self-mastery.
In cybersecurity especially, that might be the most underrated leadership skill of all.
World Health Organization (WHO) — Burn-out an “occupational phenomenon” (ICD-11 overview)
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon-international-classification-of-diseases
World Health Organization (WHO) — Burn-out: an occupational phenomenon (FAQ / definition)
https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon
Harvard Business Review — When You’re the Executive Everyone Relies On—and You’re Burning Out (Oct 9, 2025)
https://hbr.org/2025/10/when-youre-the-executive-everyone-relies-on-and-youre-burning-out
Harvard Business Review — Preventing Burnout Is About Empathetic Leadership (Sep 28, 2020)
https://hbr.org/2020/09/preventing-burnout-is-about-empathetic-leadership
Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE Book) — Eliminating Toil
https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/
Google SRE Workbook — Eliminating Toil (operational efficiency)
https://sre.google/workbook/eliminating-toil/
NIST — SP 800-61r3 (PDF): Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management (CSF 2.0 Community Profile)
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-61r3.pdf
NIST CSRC — SP 800-61r3 publication landing page
https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/61/r3/ipd
NIST News — NIST Revises SP 800-61 (incident response recommendations)
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/04/nist-revises-sp-800-61-incident-response-recommendations-and-considerations
CDC / NIOSH — Stress…At Work (NIOSH Publication No. 99-101)
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/99-101/default.html
OSHA — Workplace Stress: Guidance and Tips for Employers
https://www.osha.gov/workplace-stress/employer-guidance
Mind Garden — Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (official distributor page)
https://www.mindgarden.com/117-maslach-burnout-inventory-mbi
Training Industry — Developing Conscious Leaders for a Fast-Changing World
https://trainingindustry.com/articles/leadership/developing-conscious-leaders-for-a-fast-changing-world/
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