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Whitepaper · April 2026 · 22 min read

The Case for Unified Security Operations: Why Tool Sprawl Is the Real Vulnerability

Engineering teams run 5–7 security vendors at $250K+ per year — and still can't answer basic questions about their own infrastructure. This whitepaper examines the tool sprawl problem, the emerging AI-powered threat landscape, and how a unified platform approach to log management, SIEM, autonomous investigation, breach simulation, and compliance reporting changes the economics and effectiveness of security operations. Includes a full competitive comparison.

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AI & Security Engineering · April 2026 · 14 min read

Mythos Is the Warning Shot. The Defensive Playbook Starts Now.

Anthropic's Mythos model found tens of thousands of zero-days autonomously — including a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug that survived decades of expert review. Comparable capabilities will proliferate in six to eighteen months. Here are six defensive techniques you can start building today, with tools that already exist.

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AI & Security Engineering · April 2026 · 11 min read

Falling Back in Love with Security: How Claude Code Changed How I Work

After 20 years in technology, I didn't expect to feel genuinely excited about my tools again. Claude Code changed that. A senior technologist's honest account of what AI-assisted security work actually looks like — the capabilities, the shift in how expertise gets applied, and why the role of the human in the loop matters more than ever.

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Product · April 2026 · 13 min read

Why We Built Arca AI-First — and What That Actually Means

Every monitoring platform says it has AI. Arca was designed from the start so that the AI is the interface — not a feature bolted on afterward. An inside look at the architecture decisions, the tradeoffs, and why we think the future of infrastructure monitoring is a conversation, not a dashboard.

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