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More dashboards will not make you safer

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Placeholder copy. A tool that surfaces an alert at two in the morning to nobody is not a control. It is a liability with a subscription fee.

Placeholder copy. This resource has no author set on purpose, so the templates get exercised with a missing byline as well as a present one.

Detection without response is theatre. The question worth asking of any security product is not what it detects, but who is awake when it fires and what they are empowered to do.

Ask the response question first

  1. Who receives the alert, by name, at 3am on a Sunday?
  2. What are they authorised to shut off without asking permission?
  3. How long between the alert firing and a human reading it?