Image generated by AI Cybersecurity has never suffered from a shortage of tools. Every year, organizations invest in new fancy platforms promising deeper visibility, faster detection, and smarter automation. Yet breaches continue, audit findings repeat, and operational gaps persist. The problem isn’t the technology. It’s the pedagogy behind how we deploy, operationalize, and sustain it. There are three different “modes of learning” inside every cybersecurity program, and they often conflict with each other: 1. Setting the Tool: The Pedagogy of Configuration This is the world of architecture, engineering, and implementation. It’s where teams focus on: Installing and configuring the platform or the product. Integrating it with identity, cloud, and network systems. Ensuring logs flow, alerts trigger, and dashboards populate. Meeting vendor best practices and audit baselines. This mode is project-driven. It’s about checklists, timelines, and technical correctness. Success is measured by w...