I audit robots.txt files on every engagement. They reveal admin panels, staging environments, API endpoints, and internal paths that the organization tried to hide from crawlers.

51% of web traffic is automated. AI scrapers visit five times per page. CAPTCHA is dead. Cloudflare traps bots in AI-generated mazes. The web we built for humans is being renegotiated.

I added passive DNS logging to my network and found a compromised IoT device within 48 hours. Most organizations have no idea what their DNS traffic reveals.

LexisNexis got breached through an unpatched React Server Components vulnerability. The RDS master password was allegedly Lexis1234. Federal judge accounts were in the leak.

The NVD backlog hit 18,000 unanalyzed CVEs in 2025. MITRE's funding was nearly cut. I now cross-reference four sources because trusting CVE alone will get you breached.