Inventory
Create a CBOM (Cryptographic Bill of Materials)
Know your public endpoints, TLS version and cypher suites before Friday
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MONDAYMOVE
Inventory
Know your public endpoints, TLS version and cypher suites before Friday
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Forward Moves
The control plane is consolidating. Gateways are becoming the new chokepoints where policy is expressed and enforced.
Forward Moves
The fundamentals didn't change. The blast radius did.
Identity
Privileged access creep is the most reliable pattern in every breach post-mortem.
Detection
"Agentic SecOps" is a noun until you have a baseline. The number you write down on Monday is what you measure improvement against. Without it, you're buying capability and hoping.
ABOUT
I'm Neil Watkins — a senior executive level security leader who's spent nearly 30 years building, breaking, and rebuilding enterprise security programs. I write, speak, and advise on how security and IT teams rebuild for the AI era. Most programs are over-tooled and under-architected. I help with the architecture.
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