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StunnedLIVE: Following AWS’s Lead, Cloudflare Also Attempts “Turning the Internet Off and On Again”AI Coding Tool Used in Massive Espionage Campaign Celebrates Achieving “Market Fit”CyberSock Industries Raises $47M to Protect Security Keys from “Pocket-Based Threat Actors”Tragedy Strikes: 12-Month Rest-and-Vest Interrupted by Security Training DeadlineVulnerability Scanner Now Sending Birthday Cards With Unpatched CVEsCompany ingeniously avoids breach by maintaining outdated softwareSecurity Company Raises $120M to “Completely Forget About Security,” Rebrands as AI Monetization PlatformVulnerability Scanner Now Offers Discounts for Every Finding It Gets WrongCISO Finally Gets Rid of Log4j Nightmares After Two Years of TherapySecurity Engineer Working on FedRAMP Files Career Deviation RequestSecurity Sales Guy Finally Understands What His Network Detection Tool DoesEngineer “More of a Dirt Road Kind of Guy”LOST: Does Anyone Own This Vendor?CISO Goes to Jail for Doing an Okay JobCISO Vows To Find Individual Behind Decision He Announced In All-Hands EmailRansomware Negotiator Mails $340,000 in Cash to Attackers After Security Training Only Mentioned Gift Cards and BitcoinTeams Left Confused and Disappointed by New “Shift Left” Fitness ProgramCISO Discovers Entire Security Data Lake Can Be Summarized with Three CheckboxesIncident Manager Can't Sleep During First Week Off-Call in 18 MonthsCISO’s DIY AI Agent Project Excelling at Burning MoneyRiot Breaks Out at Corporate Headquarters after Security Team Introduces “Shift Left”Heroic Helpdesk Analyst Saves Company by Sending Entire Active Directory to StrangerRise of the Prompt Slop: How AI’s Appetite for Garbage Is the Internet’s New Security ThreatSecurity Test Goes Too Well, SecOps Not AmusedLouvre Protected $50 Billion in Art With Password 'LOUVRE'Project Budget Dump: The Billion-Dollar Plan to Buy More Nothing, FasterSecurity Team Declares "Screw It" after 847th Critical Vuln Turns out to be Some Obscure Library Nobody UsesSecurity Engineer Finally Completes Homegrown SIEM, Only Took 12 Years and Three DivorcesAWS Outage Forces Employees to Discover They Have FamiliesNew AI Vendor Successfully Manages to Sell Real Snake Oil to CISOAWS Insists Outage "Definitely Not DNS" Before Admitting It Was Totally DNSBurnt Out CISO Forced to Decline Michelin-Starred Round Table Dinner.NetFortress Engineer Accidentally Becomes First Billionaire to Patch His Way Onto Forbes ListCompany pays staff not to leak dataCISO publishes groundbreaking strategySDR Makes History by Actually Caring That A CISO Did Not Want to be EmailedCISO Has an Uneventful Day: World Left StunnedLIVE: Following AWS’s Lead, Cloudflare Also Attempts “Turning the Internet Off and On Again”AI Coding Tool Used in Massive Espionage Campaign Celebrates Achieving “Market Fit”CyberSock Industries Raises $47M to Protect Security Keys from “Pocket-Based Threat Actors”Tragedy Strikes: 12-Month Rest-and-Vest Interrupted by Security Training DeadlineVulnerability Scanner Now Sending Birthday Cards With Unpatched CVEsCompany ingeniously avoids breach by maintaining outdated softwareSecurity Company Raises $120M to “Completely Forget About Security,” Rebrands as AI Monetization PlatformVulnerability Scanner Now Offers Discounts for Every Finding It Gets WrongCISO Finally Gets Rid of Log4j Nightmares After Two Years of TherapySecurity Engineer Working on FedRAMP Files Career Deviation RequestSecurity Sales Guy Finally Understands What His Network Detection Tool DoesEngineer “More of a Dirt Road Kind of Guy”LOST: Does Anyone Own This Vendor?CISO Goes to Jail for Doing an Okay JobCISO Vows To Find Individual Behind Decision He Announced In All-Hands EmailRansomware Negotiator Mails $340,000 in Cash to Attackers After Security Training Only Mentioned Gift Cards and BitcoinTeams Left Confused and Disappointed by New “Shift Left” Fitness ProgramCISO Discovers Entire Security Data Lake Can Be Summarized with Three CheckboxesIncident Manager Can't Sleep During First Week Off-Call in 18 MonthsCISO’s DIY AI Agent Project Excelling at Burning MoneyRiot Breaks Out at Corporate Headquarters after Security Team Introduces “Shift Left”Heroic Helpdesk Analyst Saves Company by Sending Entire Active Directory to StrangerRise of the Prompt Slop: How AI’s Appetite for Garbage Is the Internet’s New Security ThreatSecurity Test Goes Too Well, SecOps Not AmusedLouvre Protected $50 Billion in Art With Password 'LOUVRE'Project Budget Dump: The Billion-Dollar Plan to Buy More Nothing, FasterSecurity Team Declares "Screw It" after 847th Critical Vuln Turns out to be Some Obscure Library Nobody UsesSecurity Engineer Finally Completes Homegrown SIEM, Only Took 12 Years and Three DivorcesAWS Outage Forces Employees to Discover They Have FamiliesNew AI Vendor Successfully Manages to Sell Real Snake Oil to CISOAWS Insists Outage "Definitely Not DNS" Before Admitting It Was Totally DNSBurnt Out CISO Forced to Decline Michelin-Starred Round Table Dinner.NetFortress Engineer Accidentally Becomes First Billionaire to Patch His Way Onto Forbes ListCompany pays staff not to leak dataCISO publishes groundbreaking strategySDR Makes History by Actually Caring That A CISO Did Not Want to be EmailedCISO Has an Uneventful Day: World Left StunnedLIVE: Following AWS’s Lead, Cloudflare Also Attempts “Turning the Internet Off and On Again”AI Coding Tool Used in Massive Espionage Campaign Celebrates Achieving “Market Fit”CyberSock Industries Raises $47M to Protect Security Keys from “Pocket-Based Threat Actors”Tragedy Strikes: 12-Month Rest-and-Vest Interrupted by Security Training DeadlineVulnerability Scanner Now Sending Birthday Cards With Unpatched CVEsCompany ingeniously avoids breach by maintaining outdated softwareSecurity Company Raises $120M to “Completely Forget About Security,” Rebrands as AI Monetization PlatformVulnerability Scanner Now Offers Discounts for Every Finding It Gets WrongCISO Finally Gets Rid of Log4j Nightmares After Two Years of TherapySecurity Engineer Working on FedRAMP Files Career Deviation RequestSecurity Sales Guy Finally Understands What His Network Detection Tool DoesEngineer “More of a Dirt Road Kind of Guy”LOST: Does Anyone Own This Vendor?CISO Goes to Jail for Doing an Okay JobCISO Vows To Find Individual Behind Decision He Announced In All-Hands EmailRansomware Negotiator Mails $340,000 in Cash to Attackers After Security Training Only Mentioned Gift Cards and BitcoinTeams Left Confused and Disappointed by New “Shift Left” Fitness ProgramCISO Discovers Entire Security Data Lake Can Be Summarized with Three CheckboxesIncident Manager Can't Sleep During First Week Off-Call in 18 MonthsCISO’s DIY AI Agent Project Excelling at Burning MoneyRiot Breaks Out at Corporate Headquarters after Security Team Introduces “Shift Left”Heroic Helpdesk Analyst Saves Company by Sending Entire Active Directory to StrangerRise of the Prompt Slop: How AI’s Appetite for Garbage 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