Cerebro: A Read-Only Security Intelligence Layer Built Around Evidence
Why I built Cerebro, how its read-only architecture limits authority, and what its current platform, investigation, threat, risk, GEOINT, and operational integrations can do.
Why I built Cerebro, how its read-only architecture limits authority, and what its current platform, investigation, threat, risk, GEOINT, and operational integrations can do.
A practical design for emergency access that remains independent, time-bounded, observable, testable, and difficult to normalize into an ordinary administration path.
An architecture review earns its cost only when it produces an explicit decision, bounded conditions, accountable owners, verification criteria, and a durable record.
Decommissioning is the controlled removal of authority, dependencies, identities, and startup paths, not a power-off event.
A completed backup proves data was written somewhere. Recovery evidence proves the right service can be restored safely, within its objective, without colliding with production.
A practical baseline for governing AI authority, data, tools, consequential actions, evidence, and lifecycle risk without mistaking a system prompt for a security boundary.
A conversation with Rich from 2GuysTek about the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook, the fundamentals that still matter, and how architects should approach AI, zero trust, quantum readiness, and legacy systems.
A useful threat model tracks live trust boundaries, administration paths, transition states, recovery systems, evidence dates, and the changes that made the old model wrong.
After reading my post on AI firewalls, a friend asked for my take on prompt injection. Prompt injection becomes dangerous when untrusted content can steer a software principal into using authority that the content never possessed.