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MDR vs SOC as a Service: What You Are Buying in Each Model

This comparison gets asked in both directions — MDR vs SOC as a service, SOCaaS vs MDR — and the honest answer starts with an admission: the two names describe overlapping services sold with deliberately blurry edges. Both give you people watching for attacks around the clock. What differs is scope, tooling ownership and who

The Slammer Worm, 23 Years Later — What That Day Taught Me About Speed

January 25, 2003. A Saturday. I was at my desk—because in cybersecurity, Saturdays are just Thursdays with better coffee. I’d been in the industry for about a decade at that point, running network operations. We’d seen worms before. Code Red. Nimda. The usual chaos. Nothing—and I mean nothing—prepared us for SQL Slammer. At 05:30 UTC,