Search for a command to run...
Series
AI is everywhere — in the tools we defend with, in the tools attackers are weaponising, and in every headline that makes security feel more overwhelming than ever.
But how many of us have actually stopped to understand it — not the buzzwords, not the vendor slides, but what AI really is, how it works, and what it means for the people defending organisations every day?
This three-part series is my attempt to answer that question honestly.
We start with the fundamentals — what AI actually is, the types, how it learns, and where it's genuinely helping security teams right now. Then we go to the uncomfortable side — hallucinations, Shadow AI, attackers using the same tools we rely on. And finally, we talk about the shift that changed everything: how AI went from answering questions to taking actions on its own.
No hype. No jargon for the sake of it. Just a practitioner trying to make sense of a technology that's reshaping everything we do — written for anyone who wants to understand it, whether you're just starting out or have been in the field for years.
Because in security, understanding your environment is always the first step.
I remember sitting in a SOC war room in 2019, staring at a QRadar dashboard flooded with alerts, wishing something — anything — could help me triage faster. A senior colleague leaned over and said, "S
A talk about threats and risks of AI
There's a moment in every good thriller where the antagonist stops taking orders and starts making decisions. That's roughly what happened with AI over the last two years. In November, we talked about
