John Z Black

The Progress We Thought We Were Making Against Hackers? It Just Went Backward.

John Z Black Mar 30, 2026

Threat Intelligence #m-trends #dwell-time #mandiant #espionage #ransomware #north-korea #threat-intelligence

Dwell time reversed in 2025, and the reason why tells you exactly which threats most security programs are not built to catch.

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M-Trends 2026: The 22-Second Stat Everyone Is Misreading

John Z Black Mar 24, 2026

Security Operations & Resilience #m-trends #mandiant #ransomware #incident-response #dwell-time #initial-access-brokers #recovery-denial

Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 report is getting misquoted everywhere. The 22-second ransomware handoff is real -- but it's not what you think, and the dwell time stat buried in the report is scarier.

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