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The weekly dispatch from inside the CISO office stack — one of the outputs of UpIsland, the open-source reimagining of the role. Each episode: what shipped, what the agents got wrong, what's worth your Monday morning. Sorted into the lenses I use — what attackers are trying, how we counter, how it translates back to the business.

episode-3
2026-05-31
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Episode 3 — the exploration cut

Episode 0 is the exploration cut — 3 pieces drawn from the past two weeks of my reading, surfacing 1 different voices working the same problem: how the One-Person CISO operates when attackers are getting machine-fast and the business nee…

what attackers are trying · 1 how we counter · 1 business translation · 1
episode-2-test
2026-05-27
▸ live

episode-2-test

Episode 0 is the exploration cut — 8 pieces drawn from the past two weeks of my reading, surfacing 3 different voices working the same problem: how the One-Person CISO operates when attackers are getting machine-fast and the business nee…

what attackers are trying · 3 how we counter · 3 business translation · 2
episode-1
2026-05-20
▸ live

Episode 1 — the exploration cut

Episode 0 is the exploration cut — 6 pieces drawn from the past two weeks of my reading, surfacing 2 different voices working the same problem: how the One-Person CISO operates when attackers are getting machine-fast and the business nee…

what attackers are trying · 2 how we counter · 2 business translation · 2
episode-0
2026-05-16
▸ live

Episode 0 — the exploration cut

Episode 0 is the exploration cut — 12 pieces drawn from the past two weeks of my reading, surfacing 2 different voices working the same problem: how the One-Person CISO operates when attackers are getting machine-fast and the business ne…

what attackers are trying · 4 how we counter · 4 business translation · 4