Security Operations
You Only Know Because They Told You
Three companies were breached this spring and none of them noticed — they found out when the company that made the AI…
Signal from the Grid
Publications
Articles and published works — cybersecurity best practices, perspectives, and D2's vision of the future in cyber defense.
Rethinking Cyber Security
You Can’t Patch Your Way Out of an Agentic Breach
An autonomous AI agent broke into Hugging Face and harvested credentials at machine speed — and patching the way in evicted nothing.…
Rethinking Cyber Security
The Rubber-Stamp Problem Just Got a Lot Worse with AI
A human approving an AI agent's actions isn't the same as knowing what it actually did. GhostApproval and a personal near-miss both…
Rethinking Cyber Security
With AI Building and Running the Attack, Defense Has to Move Above the Endpoint
In one week, AI stopped being a forecast on the attacker's side and became a set of case files: a ransomware operation…
Rethinking Cyber Security
The OAuth Mesh: Governing the Trust You’ve Already Granted
Seven security companies lost data out of their Salesforce — and not one of them was breached. The Klue incident is the…
Rethinking Cyber Security
Independence Day for AI Governance
In June, a single government order turned two of the most capable AI models on Earth dark — for everyone — in…
Rethinking Cyber Security
What Frontier AI Changes for the Security Operations Center
When Anthropic mapped a year of AI-enabled cyber threats onto MITRE ATT&CK last week — 832 malicious accounts, with results now in…
Rethinking Cyber Security
AI-Powered Cyber Defense Depends on Visibility Across Distributed Data
Cisco's announcement joining Anthropic's Project Glasswing makes one thing clear: AI has entered a new phase in cybersecurity. The real question is…
Rethinking Cyber Security
Rethinking Security in the AI Era with the Agentic SOC
Agentic AI is moving from buzzword to boardroom priority. David argues that the future SOC is not just AI-assisted — it is…
Rethinking Cyber Security
2026 Prediction: AI Will Merge the NOC and SOC
The artificial boundary between Network Operations and Security Operations is collapsing under AI pressure. David's 2026 prediction: unified AI-driven operations centers will…