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Your Data Lake Is Only as Useful as Its Ability to Answer a Question
- David O'Neil
- Cybersecurity
- 09 Apr, 2026
You moved your security data out of the SIEM and into a data lake. Costs dropped. For the first time in years, you had budget to spare. Then an investigation hit — and your team spent two weeks findi
read moreThe SIEM Cost Trap — Why Your Data Lake + AI Agents Will Win
- David O'Neil
- Cybersecurity
- 01 Apr, 2026
If you've ever sat across from your CFO, your VP of Engineering, or your board and tried to explain why your SIEM costs what it costs — you already know how this conversation goes. The short version o
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The Math Problem AI Just Changed for Security Testing
- David O'Neil
- Cybersecurity
- 22 Mar, 2026
Published: 2026-03-22 | RSA 2026 Pre-Conference SeriesHere's the problem every security team lives with but rarely says out loud. Your environment changes every time a developer merges code,
read moreFour Generations of Broken Promises: Why AI SOC Agents Might Actually Be Different
- David O'Neil
- Cybersecurity
- 18 Mar, 2026
Series: The SIEM & AI Reckoning — Article 1 of 10Over twenty years and hundreds of vendor pitches, one line never changes: "This is going to change everything." 2005, SIEM. 2012, Next-Gen
read moreClaude Code Has Two New CVEs — Here's What They Exploit and How to Harden Your Setup
- David O'Neil
- Cybersecurity
- 03 Mar, 2026
Your engineers cloned repositories today. Probably dozens. If any of those repos contained a malicious .claude/settings.json, they may have executed arbitrary shell code without a single confirmatio
read moreHow I Made Claude Code Safer (And You Can Too)
- David O'Neil
- Cybersecurity
- 10 Feb, 2026
I've been running Claude Code on real projects for months. It's great at writing code — but it doesn't always understand the consequences of what it writes. Claude Code validates which tools can run.
read moreI Ran 849 Tests on AI Context Files. Here's What Actually Works.
- David O'Neil
- Cybersecurity
- 05 Feb, 2026
After 849 controlled tests, $20 in API costs, and a week of experiments, I can tell you exactly how to organize your Claude Code reference files. The short version: Put everything in one flat fol
read morePre-Selection Beats Post-Selection: How I Made Claude Code 10-30x Faster
- David O'Neil
- Cybersecurity
- 03 Feb, 2026
Every code navigation costs time. When you multiply 300ms delays across hundreds of searches per day, you're losing hours p
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