The Ghost Operator's Signal
By DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”
The boardroom doesn’t care about security.
They care about optics. About quarterly reports. About bonuses.
And when the inevitable breach happens?
They don’t take responsibility. They find a scapegoat.
Enter the CISO.
Continue reading “🐐 The CISO is Just a Scapegoat: How Executives Sacrifice Security Leaders to Hide Their Own Failures”
By DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”
Let’s get this straight: Cybersecurity is NOT a charity.
Yet, every day, companies refuse to cut dead weight, leaving security teams dragging corpses through the battlefield.
🔹 The “veteran” who hasn’t updated their skills in a decade.
🔹 The clueless sysadmin who still writes passwords on sticky notes.
🔹 The manager who ignores every warning, then blames the SOC when an attack succeeds.
By DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”
Let’s get something straight: hiring a penetration tester is useless if you’re not ready to actually fix the holes they find.
But here we are — your hired gun runs a slew of tests, uncovers your infrastructure’s dirty secrets, and what happens?
Nothing.
Why?
Because the same corporate “leaders” who pay for the test have already decided they don’t care about the results.
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