Locks, SOCs and a cat in a box: What Schrödinger can teach us about cybersecurity

This thought-leadership piece argues that organizations exist in a perpetual “pre-breach” or “quantum breach” state, where attackers often dwell undetected and time their actions for maximum disruption; citing Scattered Spider-linked incidents at Marks & Spencer and Jaguar Land Rover and IBM breach-lifecycle metrics, it contends that building in-house SOCs or self-running EDR/XDR is costly and skill-intensive, and promotes managed detection and response (MDR) as a practical way to gain visibility, reduce MTTD/MTTR, meet insurance/compliance needs, and counter tactics like social engineering and living-off-the-land.