Posts by Brian Laskowski

    The Noise Was Always the Problem

    6 min read | June 23, 2026

    I've been in security long enough to remember the wall-to-wall SOC: rows of analysts staring at screens full of alerts, hoping they didn't miss the one thing that mattered...

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    About the Author

    Brian has 5 years of experience in IT, with prior work including linux systems administration to most recently leading the threat intelligence program at the State of Michigan security operations center. Other areas of focus have included, incident response, threat hunting, memory analysis, adversary emulation, and SOC metrics. Brian currently holds SANS certifications for the GCIH, GCTI, and most recently the GDAT.