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Michael Faas
Your AI has a trust model. You didn't write it.

May 10, 2026

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4 min read

Your AI has a trust model. You didn't write it.

Pillar Security found a CVSS 10 in Google's Gemini CLI last month. Not a coding error. A trust error. Your AI tools all have it. Most organizations haven't designed the answer.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
9 in 10 SMBs have a compromised user right now.

May 3, 2026

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4 min read

9 in 10 SMBs have a compromised user right now.

The question isn't whether. It's whether anyone is watching.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
You Bought a Product. It's Running a Process You Never Designed.

Apr 26, 2026

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4 min read

You Bought a Product. It's Running a Process You Never Designed.

AI coding agents aren't the tool you bought. They're the process you have to govern — and that's a leadership gap, not a tooling gap.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Security doesn't fail in silos — it fails in cascades.

Apr 19, 2026

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3 min read

Security doesn't fail in silos — it fails in cascades.

The cascades everyone's writing about are between companies. The ones that take you down are inside yours. One weak domain. Nine downstream failures. Most security teams can't see the shape.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
The Soft Underbelly Doesn't Care About Your Clearance Level

Apr 12, 2026

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6 min read

The Soft Underbelly Doesn't Care About Your Clearance Level

The head of the FBI got phished. Your executives are next.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Your AI Supply Chain Is Already Compromised

Apr 5, 2026

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6 min read

Your AI Supply Chain Is Already Compromised

They didn't hack the AI. They hacked the security tools first.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
The Assumptions Nobody Wrote Down

Mar 30, 2026

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9 min read

The Assumptions Nobody Wrote Down

Three failures. Three industries. One structural flaw: the assumptions nobody documented, questioned, or tested.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Your Security Program Has a 28-Day Blind Spot

Mar 22, 2026

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7 min read

Your Security Program Has a 28-Day Blind Spot

Offense gets instant feedback. Defense gets quarterly reviews. AI just made that gap unsurvivable.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Your Patching Window Just Collapsed

Mar 15, 2026

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6 min read

Your Patching Window Just Collapsed

Exploitation just overtook credentials as the #1 breach vector. First time ever.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
No Malware. No Exploit. Just a Prompt

Mar 8, 2026

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5 min read

No Malware. No Exploit. Just a Prompt

The AI Kill Chain doesn't need binaries. It needs your agent's trust.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
29 Minutes. That's All They Need.

Mar 1, 2026

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5 min read

29 Minutes. That's All They Need.

Your board thinks "incident response" means hours. Attackers think it means minutes. Someone needs to translate that gap.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Google Just Bought Your Cloud Security Team

Feb 23, 2026

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5 min read

Google Just Bought Your Cloud Security Team

$32B. Largest cyber acquisition ever. Your vendor's new boss is a hyperscaler with its own agenda.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
They Phished His Kid's Soccer Team to Hack a Defense Contractor

Feb 16, 2026

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5 min read

They Phished His Kid's Soccer Team to Hack a Defense Contractor

When attackers know your family better than your security team does

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Your Firewall Vendor Got Hacked. So Did 80 Banks.

Feb 8, 2026

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4 min read

Your Firewall Vendor Got Hacked. So Did 80 Banks.

When your vendor's vendor gets breached, the cascade finds you.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Your AI Agent Has the Keys. Who's Watching the Door?

Jan 31, 2026

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5 min read

Your AI Agent Has the Keys. Who's Watching the Door?

Signal vs. Noise — Pulse #01

Michael Faas
Michael Faas

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