SOC

Cisco Talos reported that 40% of all intrusions in Q4 2025 came from exploited vulnerabilities. Phishing dropped to second place. The security awareness training programs running at most organizations have not caught up. Defenders are losing ground. The monitoring infrastructure was built for an attack pattern that is no longer the primary one. Where the Training Points Phishing awareness training is calibrated for email-borne threats. A user who hovers before clicking, checks the sender domain, and reports a suspicious attachment is an asset. The training addresses a real threat category. ...

The first cybersecurity tool most people install is a SIEM. A SIEM without the fundamentals is a dashboard full of alerts you cannot interpret. The pattern repeats: someone decides to get into cybersecurity, reads a list of enterprise tools, installs a Splunk trial or a commercial EDR, stares at it for two weeks, and concludes that security work is too complex to break into. The tool was not the problem. The sequence was. ...