You Can’t Investigate What You Didn’t Record

The worst incident I ever watched
wasn’t the breach itself.

It was the silence after.
We had no idea what happened.
No logs. No trail. Just a bad feeling and a hole.

That taught me something:
security isn’t only about prevention.
It’s about being able to look back.

Now I log like someone will need
to reconstruct this night, line by line.

But never the secrets themselves —
that’s just writing the breach down for them.

Record enough to tell the story.
Nothing that becomes the next one.

– Serguey Asael Shinder

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