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AI is collapsing the time from disclosure to exploit. Ten fundamentals for cyber resilience — with infographics on the exposure window, patch prioritization, and blast-radius containment.
How I pair Claude Code with the Superpowers and AgentOps plugins to turn AI from a chat assistant into a repeatable engineering workflow — context, plan, change, validate, document, review — with install steps and the exact prompts I use.
Instead of one confident answer, spin up five advisors — the Contrarian, First-Principles Thinker, Expansionist, Outsider, and Executor — then close with one verdict. A prompt for sharper thinking with AI.
The attacker top 10 hasn't changed in a decade — predictable threats are preventable. Why application allowlisting belongs in front of your EDR, not behind it.
A pre-auth Windows Netlogon stack overflow (CVSS 9.8), exploited in the wild — why the popular Defender hunt watches the wrong port, and KQL for the real CLDAP path.
This site is now fully Cloudflare-native: Astro prerendered to static HTML, served as Worker assets from the edge, with a live API route in the same deployment.
XDISK benchmarks of an IBM Power9 9009-22G driving an all-NVMe Flash System 7200 — traditional RAID 10 versus Distributed RAID 6 (DRAID6).
How the IBM Flash System 7200 handles redundancy and growth — rebuild areas, Distributed RAID spares, and non-disruptive online DRAID expansion.
XDISK benchmarks of an IBM Power9 9009-22A driving an all-NVMe StorWize V7000 Gen3 over 16Gb FC — traditional RAID 10 versus Distributed RAID 6 (DRAID6).