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Signal vs. Noise

Cutting through the chaos of cybersecurity and technology — so you can lead with clarity.

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Jun 28, 2026

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One week's breath. The archive is the assignment.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
It was never about vulnerabilities.

Jun 21, 2026

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It was never about vulnerabilities.

Six weeks I spent on vulnerability triage. Here is the confession at the end of it: triage was the easiest place to show you the discipline, not the only place it lives. The same move scales to vendor risk, AI procurement, the budget, the next hire. This was never about vulnerabilities. It is about how you decide under uncertainty in a system too complex to score.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
When NOT to measure.

Jun 14, 2026

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When NOT to measure.

For five weeks I taught you to measure. Here is the part that makes it discipline instead of a tic: knowing the decisions that do not earn a model. One week after I opened a paid measurement pilot, here is me telling you when measuring is the wrong move.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Stop Inheriting the Scanner's List

Jun 7, 2026

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Stop Inheriting the Scanner's List

For three weeks I showed you how to shrink forty-seven "criticals" to three and say the risk in dollars. Here's the part I left out: doing it yourself is the hard part. So I'm opening three pilot slots to do it with you.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
47 criticals...you can fix 3.

May 31, 2026

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47 criticals...you can fix 3.

A scanner handed one firm forty-seven "criticals" and a five-month queue. Watch probability and cost shrink it to three, reorder it, and turn it into a number a board can hear.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
You're sorting by the wrong number.

May 24, 2026

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You're sorting by the wrong number.

One Exchange flaw. Two severity scores that don't agree. A six-percent probability that's actually in the ninety-first percentile. The number on your screen was never the question.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
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