<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Amastra Blog</title><description>Tactical dispatches on Google Unified Security, detection engineering, and enterprise security architecture from the Amastra team.</description><link>https://amastra.io/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>What Building Actually Bought Us</title><link>https://amastra.io/blog/what-building-actually-bought-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://amastra.io/blog/what-building-actually-bought-us/</guid><description>The build-vs-buy follow-up I promised. The asset worth building was never the tools, it was the system between them, and that system turned out to be the substrate AI runs on.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>build-vs-buy</category><category>CTO</category><category>internal-tooling</category><category>startup</category><author>Mitchell Rudoll</author></item><item><title>Integrating Google Cloud Audit Logs: Beyond Turnkey Setup</title><link>https://amastra.io/blog/gcp-audit-logs-beyond-turnkey/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://amastra.io/blog/gcp-audit-logs-beyond-turnkey/</guid><description>Turning the toggle on is the easy part. Fiscally and operationally sustainable Cloud Audit Log ingestion into Google SecOps has nuance worth exploring.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ETL</category><category>GCP</category><category>SecOps</category><category>SIEM</category><author>Mitchell Rudoll</author></item><item><title>Google Cloud NEXT 2026: Separating Signal from Noise on the Security Releases</title><link>https://amastra.io/blog/google-cloud-next-2026-security/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://amastra.io/blog/google-cloud-next-2026-security/</guid><description>A security practitioner&apos;s take on what actually landed at NEXT: the agents story is more complicated than Google is letting on, and the real news got buried.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>GCP</category><category>google-cloud-next</category><category>GTI</category><category>SCC</category><category>SecOps</category><category>security</category><category>SIEM</category><category>Wiz</category><author>Mitchell Rudoll</author></item><item><title>Build vs. Buy in 2026: How AI Has Changed the Calculus for Internal Tooling</title><link>https://amastra.io/blog/amastra-build-vs-buy-blog/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://amastra.io/blog/amastra-build-vs-buy-blog/</guid><description>On joining Amastra as CTO and why the default decision for internal tools is no longer &apos;buy&apos; but &apos;build smart&apos;</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>build-vs-buy</category><category>CTO</category><category>internal-tooling</category><category>startup</category><author>Mitchell Rudoll</author></item></channel></rss>