Why I Don’t Write About Every Cybersecurity Story That Breaks

I have been getting versions of this question for a while now on Mastodon and elsewhere, so I figured it was finally worth answering in one place. Every time a major cybersecurity story breaks, there is a rush. A new breach. A new zero-day. A new vendor statement. A new round of panic. A new thread from people trying to explain what it all means before the dust has even settled. And somewhere in the middle of that cycle, I will usually get a question that sounds something like this: “Why haven’t you written about this yet?” That is a fair question. If you follow my work, you know I write a lot about cybersecurity, IT, risk, privacy, business technology, and the real-world side of managing and defending systems. So when a big story hits and I do not immediately publish something, it can probably look odd from the outside. Especially in a space where everybody seems expected to have an instant take. The truth is, I do not try to cover every security story the moment it lands. That is…