Insights
From the Conifers blog
Field notes on agentic SOC operations, threat response and the work of running security at machine speed.
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Why AI Forces Us Back to the Behavioral SOC
The recent OpenAI and Anthropic cyber incidents taught us something that I don’t think the industry is talking about enough. Everyone focused…
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Kimi K3 Is Not the Most Capable Cyber Model. That Is Exactly Why CISOs Should Pay Attention.
The release of Kimi K3 should change the cybersecurity conversation. Not because Kimi K3 is now the world’s most capable AI model.…
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SecOps Guide: Why a disconnected SOC can’t keep pace with machine-speed risk
Frontier AI moved attack discovery and execution toward machine speed. Why a disconnected SOC falls behind, and how a connected, adaptive cyber-defense…
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CISO Guide: The cybersecurity adaptation gap and how CISOs close it
A sound security decision can lose its reasoning before you revisit it. How decision latency and a decision-centered discipline close the cybersecurity…
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When Capability Becomes the Threat
For decades, threat modeling has relied on two fundamental questions: The answer to both determined how we prioritized risk. A nation-state with…
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Kimi K3: When Frontier Model Capabilities Go Ungoverned
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 matters less because it is another large model and more because it changes the economics and governance of…
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Radiant Security Alternatives: How to Evaluate an AI SOC Replacement
Comparing Radiant Security alternatives? A side by side of what each AI SOC model covers, the six criteria that decide a replacement,…
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The Cyber Defense Operating Model Is Broken
Enterprises run 83 security tools yet attackers break out in 29 minutes. The problem is not resources, it is the cyber defense…
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Security Telemetry is the Backbone of Cyber Defense
Security telemetry is only valuable if it stays the right telemetry. Here is how AI finds hidden visibility gaps across your cyber…
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In the Frontier Model Era, the SOC Operating Model Is Breaking. Britain Is Building the Alternative on a National Scale.
Britain’s NCSC published Cyber Shield, a national-scale agentic AI cyber defence that runs at machine speed. Here is what the blueprint says,…