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Jun 18, 2026

Anatomy of an Assumed Breach: 96 Hours Inside an Enterprise Network

We started with a single standard-user laptop and a mandate: reach the crown jewels. Here is what four days of quiet movement teaches an enterprise about its real blast radius.

Assumed BreachActive Directory9 min read
May 2, 2026

Prompt Injection in the Wild: What We Learn Breaking LLM Apps

The model is not your perimeter. As teams wire LLMs into tools, retrieval, and agents, the interesting attacks stop being about the model and start being about everything you connected to it.

AI/LLMPrompt Injection8 min read
Mar 14, 2026

Your Backups Are a Hypothesis: Lessons from Ransomware Simulations

Almost every organization believes its backups will save it. A ransomware simulation turns that belief into a measurement — and the measurement is often uncomfortable.

RansomwareResilience7 min read

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