Office of CISO Intelligence

The cybersecurity world loves a good scare story. This week, headlines exploded around Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model so “dangerous” the company won’t release it publicly. Instead, they’re sharing it defensively with big partners through Project Glasswing to hunt vulnerabilities in critical software before bad actors can. Anthropic claims Mythos autonomously discovered thousands of high-severity zero-days across every major operating system, every major browser, and even long-forgotten bugs in projects like OpenBSD and FFmpeg. Some allegedly survived decades of scrutiny. It can chain exploits with minimal human guidance and turn findings into working proofs of concept at an impressive rate. Sounds terrifying, right? The media ran with “0-day apocalypse” framing. CEOs started asking their security teams the predictable question: “What are we doing about this?” Here’s the calmer reality: Mythos is a significant capability jump in AI-assisted vulnerability disc...

  Picture this: It's the mid-1990s. You're an infrastructure engineer in a dimly lit server room, the hum of cooling fans in your ears. You've just spent hours crafting Access Control Lists (ACLs) on a Cisco router to lock down traffic between departments. One wrong line could expose sensitive financial data or bring the network to its knees. No fancy Security Operations Center (SOC). No automated tools. Just you, the command line, and the knowledge that the "internet" was still a wild frontier. This wasn't called cybersecurity yet, but it absolutely was. Information security, or InfoSec , is the comprehensive practice of protecting information assets — digital, physical, or procedural—from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, disruption, or destruction. It rests on the CIA triad : Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Cybersecurity focuses more narrowly on digital systems and threats in cyberspace. Today, the terms often overlap, but their fo...

  As a former email administrator, I’ve spent years in the trenches watching phishing and spoofing attacks evolve from occasional annoyances into sophisticated, high-volume threats that can damage brands and erode trust overnight. Email remains one of the most critical communication tools for businesses and individuals, but it is also a primary vector for cyber threats like phishing, spam, and domain spoofing. Attackers frequently impersonate trusted brands or colleagues to trick recipients into revealing sensitive information, clicking on malicious links, or downloading malware. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) serves as a powerful email authentication protocol that builds on earlier standards to significantly reduce these risks.

  In March 2026, cyber threats evolve faster than ever—AI automates attacks, supply chains become prime targets, geopolitical risks spike. Yet preventable breaches persist, costing trillions and shattering lives. It's unacceptable. 100% secure is impossible—zero-days exist, humans err. But asymptotic resilience is achievable: engineer breaches to be unsustainable through rapid detection, containment, and recovery. The barrier isn't tools or a shortage of contributors. It's flawed leadership—lacking boots-on-ground experience, operating in silos, failing to build trust or empower people. Recent studies (ISC2 2025, SANS 2025) confirm: the focus shifts from headcount to critical skills mismatches and leadership failures. This fight is personal. The National Public Data (NPD) breach impacted me directly—~2.9 billion records exposed (SSNs, addresses, etc.), due to misconfigured databases, no basic controls, delayed confirmation (Aug 2024), and minimal accountability (limited not...