by valino | Aug 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Security leader quiet quarter is, in some ways, the most personal subject this letter has tackled. Sunday is the day for the slower thought. The week ahead always asks for the operator. Sunday asks for the leader. This week the letter is about security leader quiet...
by valino | Aug 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Security data lake is no longer a fringe concern for security leaders heading through 2026. The conversations happening in boardrooms, audit committees, and CISO peer groups have shifted from whether security data lake matters to how quickly an organization can...
by valino | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
Mobile device security is no longer a fringe concern for security leaders heading through 2026. The conversations happening in boardrooms, audit committees, and CISO peer groups have shifted from whether mobile device security matters to how quickly an organization...
by valino | Jul 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Cyber KPIs is no longer a fringe concern for security leaders heading through 2026. The conversations happening in boardrooms, audit committees, and CISO peer groups have shifted from whether cyber KPIs matters to how quickly an organization can operationalize it...
by valino | Jul 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
Attack surface management is no longer a fringe concern for security leaders heading through 2026. The conversations happening in boardrooms, audit committees, and CISO peer groups have shifted from whether attack surface management matters to how quickly an...
by valino | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
SOC burnout is no longer a fringe concern for security leaders heading through 2026. The conversations happening in boardrooms, audit committees, and CISO peer groups have shifted from whether SOC burnout matters to how quickly an organization can operationalize it...
by valino | Jul 27, 2026 | Compliance, Hacking
Cybersecurity in 2026, at the mid-year mark, looks both familiar and noticeably different from the same view a year earlier. The adversary patterns have evolved more quickly than the defensive ones. The regulatory environment has matured faster than most CISOs...
by valino | Jul 27, 2026 | Compliance, Hacking
One cybersecurity habit every executive should build before the end of 2026, if they have not already, is the habit of reading one specific operational artifact from the security team every week. Not the dashboard. Not the executive summary. One specific artifact, end...
by valino | Jul 25, 2026 | Hacking, SIEM
Operational threat modeling, run with STRIDE or a similar structured framework, is the discipline that decides whether design-time security decisions ship into the product or get retrofitted under incident pressure. The teams whose products age well in production...
by valino | Jul 24, 2026 | Compliance, Hacking
Cybersecurity M&A integration in 2026, and especially the first 100 days after close, is the operational window that decides whether the acquired entity becomes a strength or a liability to the combined organization’s security posture. The acquirers who run...
