CyberSpeak Labs

CyberSpeak Labs Detection Intelligence Report Research window includes data publicly posted from 2025 to 2026. References: Picus Security, Splunk, Microsoft, and Malwarebytes This report is intended to support and provide additional context around the emerging tactics and techniques identified in the recent Picus Security research. It incorporates additional research and publicly available threat intelligence to provide defenders with broader insight into the evolving threat landscape....

By Stephen Engler, Owner of Ctrl-Alt-GenX and cybersecurity speaker (@PHtheAdmin) I started in IT the way almost everyone I know started in IT: answering the help desk phone. Password resets, "the printer's down again," the occasional actual emergency buried in forty routine tickets. It wasn't glamorous. But it's where I learned to triage under pressure, talk to a scared end user, and build the instincts that eventually let me do harder things. Every senior engineer I've ever worked with has...

Author: Stephen Engler Owner, Ctrl-Alt-GenX | Cybersecurity Speaker @PHtheAdmin Last time I wrote about burnout in the abstract. Turnover stats, survey numbers, the general shape of the problem. It's easy to nod along to numbers like that and go back to your day, because a percentage doesn't land in your gut the way a specific story does. So this time I want to talk about one story instead of another pile of stats, because I read something a couple months ago that I haven't been able to...