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The Tabletop Exercise Everyone Passed

  • Post author:The Grumpy Security Guy
  • Post published:August 30, 2026
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Last quarter your organization ran a tabletop exercise. A facilitator walked the team through a ransomware scenario, everyone said the right things, the runbook was referenced, and the after-action report…

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Compliant Is Not Secure, and It Never Was

  • Post author:The Grumpy Security Guy
  • Post published:August 23, 2026
  • Post category:Rants

There is a framed certificate on a wall somewhere in your building right now. It has a nice border, an auditor's logo, and a date. Somebody spent six figures and…

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Every Defense You Buy Comes With an Off Switch

  • Post author:The Grumpy Security Guy
  • Post published:July 27, 2026
  • Post category:Rants

Twenty years in this business and I can tell you the most dangerous thing in any security architecture is not the firewall you forgot to configure. It is the off…

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Source Code Scanning is Dead

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  • Post published:December 24, 2007
  • Post category:Rants

I am going to make a bold statement: automated source code scanning as a primary application security strategy is dead. It just does not know it yet. Before the vendor…

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