I was introduced to the Copilot Earth project late last year, and that got me thinking about how a similar concept could be applied to security. The idea of visualizing activity at a global level, enriched and interactive, felt like something that should exist for a SOC. From there, one idea led to another. I… Read More: Adventures in Vibe Coding »
I put together a small project called Global Threat Atlas. It started out simple, and 500+ commits later it turned into something production-ready. It can be deployed today in Azure commercial subscriptions. This is built with an operations center in mind. It works well as a glanceable wallboard, but you can also interact with it… Read More: Global Threat Atlas – Public Release »
My oldest child is a game design major. The program is very anti-AI. That reaction is understandable when you are trying to learn the fundamentals of a craft. Nobody wants shortcuts replacing real skill while they are still trying to master the basics. One thing that surprised me is how many students in the program… Read More: Game Design in the Age of Vibe Coding »
I write a lot of prompts. Easily dozens a day at this point. Between experimenting with ideas, vied coding , vibe learning, asking questions, and drafting content, a good part of my day involves typing into some kind of LLM prompt. The odd part is that I have never been a great typist, despite thousands… Read More: Is LLM Prompting Causing Bad Typing Habits? »
I see a growing amount of chatter about “securing AI,” but that phrase is so broad that it almost loses meaning. Securing what exactly? Most of these conversations are really about large language models (LLMs). And even then, the security discussion is very different depending on whether you are talking about public LLMs, enterprise LLMs,… Read More: Securing Public, Enterprise, & Private LLMs »
Vibe coding is an informal term used to describe a style of development where a large language model writes most of the code interactively. Instead of starting with detailed designs or carefully planned implementations, you describe intent. You explain what you want to build, how it should behave, or what needs to change, and the… Read More: Why Vibe Coding Needs Checkpoints »
I recently responded to a customer who had questions about device compliance policies and how they interact with Conditional Access. While researching my response, I was reminded how often Microsoft Intune is overlooked as a security solution, even though it now sits at the center of Microsoft’s cloud security and zero trust strategy. That disconnect… Read More: The Overlooked Security Role of Microsoft Intune »
AI agents are often marketed as the natural evolution of large language models. The implication is that agents are smarter, more capable, and more useful than a standard chat interface. In reality, many so-called agents fail to add meaningful value and instead introduce friction, duplication, and confusion. To understand why this keeps happening, it helps… Read More: Building AI Agents That Actually Matter »
I have been making my way through a lot of long book series over the last few years, and once you fall into the right one, the books disappear faster than you expect. Joe Ledger is the one I am deep into right now, and that reminded me how many great multi-book runs I have… Read More: My Favorite Sci-Fi and Thriller Book Series »
Over the past several months I have written several articles about AI as part of my own learning journey. Each time I dig deeper, I find new ways to explain how these systems work in a way that makes sense to people who are curious but not technical. This article continues that effort by covering… Read More: A Simple Walkthrough of How AI Learns »
Artificial intelligence is often said to be grown, not built. The phrase, often attributed to thinkers in AI safety circles, captures the idea that modern AI systems are not engineered like traditional software. They are cultivated through data and experience, shaped by feedback, and refined through countless iterations until patterns begin to emerge. AI did… Read More: Grown, Not Built: How AI is Made »
If someone walked you through what they did to “create an AI,” you might be surprised, or even a little disappointed, by how simple it actually was to bring it to life. AI coding often sounds far more mysterious than it really is. When people hear “AI development,” they tend to imagine complex systems being… Read More: Demystifying AI Coding »
Traditional SIEMs follow a predictable model: collect logs from many sources, ingest them into a central store, normalize them into a readable schema, index them, and then use queries, dashboards, and alerts to investigate and respond. This design exists because data is scattered, inconsistent, and hard to retrieve. Centralization solves those problems but introduces challenges… Read More: Could AI Replace the SIEM? »
During a recent Security Copilot demo, a customer asked an excellent question: “Can these agents run PowerShell?” The short answer is not directly. Security Copilot does not execute arbitrary PowerShell commands like a runbook or automation platform would. However, it appears technically feasible to accomplish similar outcomes by triggering automation through existing Microsoft services. It… Read More: Can Security Copilot Agents Run PowerShell? »
KQL is easy to learn, efficient, readable, and perfect for daily hunting and incident response. It powers queries across Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Monitor Logs, and the Advanced Hunting experience in Microsoft XDR. Every time you open the Logs blade or run a query in the portal, you are using KQL to explore the Analytics Tier.… Read More: Analyzing Sentinel Data with Python »
What It Really Looks Like to Study Artificial Intelligence Online A decade ago, most universities treated artificial intelligence as a single elective buried deep inside computer science. It was the kind of class you took after surviving data structures, algorithms, and a heavy dose of calculus. That began to change in 2018, when Carnegie Mellon… Read More: Looking for an online AI degree? »
With so many Large Language Models (LLMs or GPTs) available today, how do you know which one to use? The truth is, there isn’t a single “best” model. Instead, the right choice depends on your specific needs and the tools you have at hand. General-Purpose LLMs Text-based LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot are… Read More: Choosing the Best AI Model »