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Notes from the drawing table

Short pieces on windows, colour, extracts, and the walkthrough — written for people who already sit with detections.

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Field note · 7 April 2026

Choosing the incident window before you draw a single line

How security teams in the United Kingdom should pick the start and end of an incident trend picture so the charts stay honest.

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Charting · 18 May 2026

Severity colours that survive a meeting

Practical rules for colouring cybersecurity event charts so severity bands stay readable in print and on a projector.

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Sources · 10 June 2026

What to send us instead of administrator access

A source list for incident trend pictures that stays inside normal UK handling rules and does not require a login to your estate.

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Captions · 1 July 2026

Quiet hours are not always good news

How to caption empty stretches on cybersecurity event charts so a quiet week is not mistaken for a clean week.

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Walkthrough · 3 August 2026

Briefing the people who do not read logs

How to walk a mixed room through incident charts without turning the hour into a detector tutorial.

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