Organizations spend real money on penetration testing and too often walk away afterwards with the same vulnerabilities they started with. The test happened. The report landed. The checkbox got checked. Nothing significant has changed.
But it might be your company’s problem.
Traditional security operations: CTI feeds piped into a SIEM, alerts routing into a ticket queue, and analysts triaging the resulting flood is running out of road. A new operational model is emerging in its place, and it doesn’t look much like what most security teams currently have in place.
With NIST's National Vulnerability Database now triaging only a fraction of incoming CVEs, security teams must diversify beyond NVD while rethinking patch SLAs and risk scoring.
Epoch Theory is Jeremiah Grossman’s framework for understanding how cybersecurity evolves in distinct phases driven by attacker behavior, not defensive intention.
Anthropic's disclosure lacked important elements, which explains the professional criticism that erupted despite the potmortem's potential significance. And while the post is marketing for Anthropic, it also provides strategic threat context for security executives.
Go talk to some VM teams, and you, too, will see what I see.
