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How BlueVoyant's ASIM-First Strategy Simplifies Threat Detection in Microsoft Sentinel

Earlier this year, BlueVoyant adopted a new detection strategy built on the Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM). For those unfamiliar, ASIM is Microsoft's normalisation layer that standardises log data across products into consistent schemas. Our approach is simple: The result? Dramatically faster use case development and cleaner, more maintainable detection logic.

MCP vs. Traditional API Security: Why Your Existing Controls Don't Protect MCP-Powered AI Agents

Traditional API security protects deterministic systems with known endpoints and explicit actions, while MCP-powered AI agents operate through inferred intent, dynamic tool chaining, and natural language interactions. This requires MCP-specific security controls such as tool governance, behavioral monitoring, and semantic anomaly detection.

PCI DSS Compliance in Houston: The Complete 2026 Guide for Texas Businesses

Houston is one of America’s most commercially active cities — a Fortune 500 corridor, a booming technology sector, and tens of thousands of small and mid-size businesses processing credit and debit card payments around the clock. Every one of those businesses is legally bound by a set of security standards that most owners know surprisingly little about: the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, universally referred to as PCI DSS.

Apple doesn't care who signed your certificate

The pitch for private PKI gets more compelling every year. Public certificate lifetimes are down to 200 days, dropping to 47 by 2029. If you run your own private certificate authority, you make your own rules. Issue certificates for as long as you want, skip the renewal churn. Let’s Encrypt and DigiCert don’t get to tell you what to do. Apple does though.

When Cosine Similarity Works Great, and When It Does Not

In my last post, I explained the math behind cosine similarity. Cosine similarity is a powerful search technique. When you are dealing with thousands or millions of chunks, it provides a fast, scalable way to find content conceptually similar to the user’s question. That is a major breakthrough. Without vector search, modern RAG would be much harder to build. But the mistake is pushing every retrieval problem into vector search. That is where practical retrieval starts breaking down.

Miasma supply chain attack: malicious code found in @redhat-cloud-services npm packages

On June 1, 2026, researchers identified malicious code embedded in at least 32 package releases published under the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace, a set of frontend components and API clients that power the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. The compromised releases carry a preinstall script that runs an obfuscated payload the moment a package is installed, harvesting developer and cloud credentials and attempting to spread itself to other packages the victim can publish.

Move over, Mythos. Here comes... pretty much any other model with a good harness

Mythos doesn’t need to be treated as the biggest and baddest in the room. Don’t get me wrong. Depending on the benchmark you’re evaluating against, Mythos is among the top models available today, and generally the best at reasoning. But it’s not leaps and bounds ahead of the race. And when it comes to practical use cases, throwing a general model, even a cutting-edge frontier model, at a problem doesn’t get the best results. Nor is it scalable or cost-effective.

Why is AES-GCM Encryption the Recommended Security Standard for DevOps Backup?

Building a resilient CI/CD pipeline means protecting every piece of data that makes your code run. Your environment variables, secret tokens, and configuration files demand the exact same security as your core repositories. Traditional backup protocols leave these assets completely vulnerable to silent manipulation. If ransomware subtly modifies your archived backup, executing a restore will deploy the corrupted files straight into production.