Twelve Ways to Make a Threat-Intel Bot Lie

A threat-intel assistant that says “I don’t know” is useful. One that invents a plausible answer is a liability. So I spent a day trying to make mine invent things, and wrote down what happened.

June 11, 2026 · 12 min

Teaching a Chatbot to Read a Spider Web

A knowledge graph holds its best facts in the connections between records. Vector search can only read what is written down. So I wrote the connections down.

April 9, 2026 · 14 min

From Half a Day to a Coffee Break

Keeping a knowledge base current in minutes instead of half a day, by never rebuilding what has not changed.

March 12, 2026 · 14 min

I'm Ashwin. I build the engineering that lets organizations get ahead of attacks, and write about the decisions behind it.

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