Zigguratum, Inc. (ziggiz) Secures $3.5 Million ARPA-H Phase IIb Contract to Advance Commercial Security Platform and Federal Compliance Posture FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Zigguratum, Inc., operating as ziggiz, has been awarded a Phase IIb Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), valued at $3,499,991 over a two-year period of performance. The contract funds continued development of
We Skipped April Fools' This Year We've got enough practical jokes running in production already. Tools that promise complete visibility but can't normalize basic logs. Alerts firing at 3pm for reasons nobody understands. Dashboards. More dashboards to explain why the first dashboard didn't work. Reading vendor whitepapers feels like April
Why Security Teams Keep Trusting Geo-Blocking When Attackers Don't Care Your SSO has geo-blocking. Your WAF has geo-blocking. Your firewall has geo-blocking. Every security vendor ships it as a feature because it's easy to explain to executives and simple to implement. The problem? Adversaries solved geographic restrictions years ago. I'm not saying geo-
The Question That Broke Every Security Team When Log4j hit in December 2021, every CISO faced the same terrifying moment. The vulnerability was everywhere. The exploitation was immediate. And suddenly, one question mattered more than any patch or mitigation strategy. "Did we get breached?" For most organizations, this question had no answer. Not because the
Why Security Teams Are Losing 80% of Their Logs We started with the documentation. Turned on Palo Alto's S3-based log feed. The files immediately failed to decompress. Time to break out the hex editor. What the Documentation Said vs. What I Actually Found Palo Alto documents their S3 integration format as ".json compressed by Snappy.
Your Security Data Vendor Is Sabotaging You You're sitting in an audit meeting. The auditor is asking about those unplanned firewall changes again. "Sorry, our security vendor's architecture requires us to violate our own change management policies." Cue the awkward silence. Everyone knows this is broken, but they're powerless.
Why Most Security Platforms Are Marketing Fiction Every vendor claims they have a "unified platform." The technical reality tells a different story. I spend my time normalizing disparate telemetry and building detection workflows that actually work. This gives me a front-row seat to the gap between platform promises and architectural reality. The average enterprise
Rethinking Cybersecurity Infrastructure The Cyber Lakehouse approach offers a fundamentally different model - decoupling storage from compute to enable cost-effective environments, true multi-tenancy, and consumption-based pricing that scales both up AND down. Scaling cybersecurity isn't just about expanding coverage—it's about making smarter architectural decisions at every
