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Your Threat Model Still Assumes Human Attacker Labor
The attacks are familiar. AI is cutting the human work behind them, so some risks you've labeled 'low likelihood' need another look.
Sep 15
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Steve Zenone
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Your AI Agent Can Commit the Company
Before security can enforce the limits, a business owner has to decide which discounts an agent can offer, payments it can send, exceptions it can…
Sep 8
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Steve Zenone
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You Can't Patch a Supply Chain You Can't Inventory
The White House's new grid-security order is about foreign hardware. The harder lesson is what happens when security risk gets installed years before…
Sep 1
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Steve Zenone
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August 2026
The Board Can't Read a Risk Appetite You Never Set
Security leaders spend days polishing board decks while many boards still haven't defined the cyber risk they're willing to accept.
Aug 25
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Steve Zenone
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The 51-Point Gap: Your People Got Faster. The Work Didn't.
Workers report strong personal productivity gains from AI while organizational work changes much less. In security, the bottleneck is moving into…
Aug 18
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The Security Team You Cut Doesn't Come Back on Incident Day
Cyber capacity looks expensive in the quiet months. Then the pager goes off and the spreadsheet discovers what it removed.
Aug 11
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Steve Zenone
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Nobody Rents Floor Space to Retention
Only 34% of security pros plan to stay. But a 54-point satisfaction gap points at something leaders control far more than pay.
Aug 7
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July 2026
Elevation or Exposure
They say security leaders finally arrived: the strategic seat, AI governance, a CFO-sized job. Against the liability numbers, a lot of that arrival is a…
Jul 30
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Steve Zenone
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The Vanishing Junior Rung
If the machines do the work people used to learn on, who's senior in ten years? I've started to dread the answer.
Jul 23
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Steve Zenone
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What You Owe Your People (and What You Don't)
You can’t promise your people a promotion or a five-year plan. You owe them an honest read on the road. Most leaders confuse generosity with honesty.
Jul 16
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Steve Zenone
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Why Your Quietest Team Is Your Riskiest
The absence of conflict isn't peace. It's a detection gap, and AI's agreeableness is making it worse. How to read the quiet room before it costs you.
Jul 8
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Steve Zenone
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June 2026
Leadership Seasons: Building vs Maintaining vs Defending
Building is not the default mode of a healthy organization. Why most of leadership is maintenance, and the AI-era cost of refusing to admit it.
Jun 30
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Steve Zenone
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