Deluged
By Ken Showers, Managing Editor
Updated 5:05 AM CDT, Wed October 15, 2025
I don’t know about you, but my weekend was filled with something I rarely expect here in the warm and dry climate of Arizona: rain.
While a pleasant diversion for me, for some of my neighboring communities the sudden onset of weather was a less welcome fact that brought flooding and damage to infrastructure around the state. You could lay the results of this weather event at any number of feet, but I think that a lack of preparedness certainly didn’t help.
You might have caught a whiff of where I’m going with this with this so let me note that I was half right in my previous blog, agentic AI is one of the current running buzzwords in the industry, but it’s sharing that spotlight with the concept of pro-active (as opposed to reactive) security. Definitely not a new concept I know but I have spent the last week positively drowning in press releases that want to discuss reactive versus proactive security development.
I can’t help but wonder what has generated this sudden interest in front loaded security. Is the security industry weathering a storm of its own? Did the powers that be decide that it’s cheaper to prevent a problem rather than solve it later?
Did all these keynote speakers copy each other’s homework? That one has my bet.
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