
Nov 11, 2025•
CISO Discovers Entire Security Data Lake Can Be Summarized with Three Checkboxes
A Fortune 500 CISO discovered their 2.3 petabyte "cyber threat intelligence lake" can be completely replaced by three checkboxes: "Internet-facing," "Is Critical," and "Contains PII." Years of machine learning and behavioral scoring were instantly rendered obsolete by what one analyst called "a triumph of reductionism disguised as a pivot table."

