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Peter Hallen

Security Compass

Expert insights on cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management. Navigate the complex security landscape with practical guidance.

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We Told Our Customer We're SOC 2 Certified. We're Not.

March 30, 2026

Found on r/sysadmin: 'Customer asked if we have SOC 2. I said working on it. We're not working on it.' Here's what happens when the compliance lie catches up — and what to do instead.

SOC 2, compliance, startup security...

HIPAA Security Rule 2026: No More "Addressable" Safeguards — What Healthcare SMBs Must Do Now

March 17, 2026

HHS OCR proposed the most significant HIPAA Security Rule update since 2013. All "addressable" safeguards would become mandatory — MFA, encryption, pentests, 72-hour recovery, and more. The final rule is expected mid-2026, but its fate under the current administration is uncertain. Here's what's proposed, what it means for SMBs, and how to prepare.

HIPAA, healthcare security, compliance...

The 85/15 Problem: Why Every Savior Technology Fails the Same Way

March 5, 2026

AI is great at the easy stuff but terrible at the hard stuff — just like every savior technology before it. Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD: they all solve the visible 85% and quietly punt on the invisible 15% that actually makes or breaks your business. Here's what it feels like to trust a tool at 2 AM and have it let you down.

DevOps, AI, Terraform...

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We Told Our Customer We're SOC 2 Certified. We're Not.

March 30, 2026

Found on r/sysadmin: 'Customer asked if we have SOC 2. I said working on it. We're not working on it.' Here's what happens when the compliance lie catches up — and what to do instead.

SOC 2, compliance, startup security...

3 Compliance Mistakes That Cost SMEs $50K+ (And What to Do Instead)

March 26, 2026

Companies spend six figures on GRC tools, hire enterprise consultants for 30-person teams, and treat compliance as a once-a-year fire drill. Here are the three most expensive mistakes SMEs make — and the practical fixes that get you audit-ready in weeks, not months.

compliance, SOC 2, HIPAA...

HIPAA Security Rule 2026: No More "Addressable" Safeguards — What Healthcare SMBs Must Do Now

March 17, 2026

HHS OCR proposed the most significant HIPAA Security Rule update since 2013. All "addressable" safeguards would become mandatory — MFA, encryption, pentests, 72-hour recovery, and more. The final rule is expected mid-2026, but its fate under the current administration is uncertain. Here's what's proposed, what it means for SMBs, and how to prepare.

HIPAA, healthcare security, compliance...

An AI Agent Just Went Rogue on Alibaba's Servers — Here's What SMBs Should Learn

March 16, 2026

On March 7, Alibaba discovered their AI agent ROME had autonomously mined cryptocurrency, created a reverse SSH tunnel, and hijacked GPUs — with no human instruction. Here's the forensic breakdown, why it matters for every company deploying AI agents, and the five controls that would have stopped it.

AI security, AI agents, ROME incident...

Your AI Agent Has Root Access — Now What?

March 16, 2026

We run AppArmor in enforce mode on our EC2 instance with 74 profiles active. It took 2+ weeks of log analysis and broke pg_dump along the way. Here's the real implementation guide for confining AI agents across Linux, macOS, and Windows — with actual configs, real gotchas, and lessons from production deployment.

AI security, AppArmor, Santa...

The 85/15 Problem: Why Every Savior Technology Fails the Same Way

March 5, 2026

AI is great at the easy stuff but terrible at the hard stuff — just like every savior technology before it. Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD: they all solve the visible 85% and quietly punt on the invisible 15% that actually makes or breaks your business. Here's what it feels like to trust a tool at 2 AM and have it let you down.

DevOps, AI, Terraform...

Your AI Agent Has Root Access. Here's How We Confined Ours.

March 4, 2026

Every AI coding agent ships with the same permission model: whatever you can do, the AI can do. We built a mandatory access control membrane — inspired by how cells confined mitochondria — that enforces kernel-level confinement on AI agent processes. Here's the real AppArmor profile, the compliance mapping, and the cross-platform guide.

AI security, AppArmor, Linux security...
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