Cybersecurity and Caravaggio:

The Real Problem Is Not the Darkness, but Where You Direct the Light

Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, did not paint light: he painted what emerged from the light. Born at the end of the 16th century, he revolutionized painting by abandoning the idealized figures of the Renaissance in favor of the realism of everyday life. His subjects are real people, with dirty hands and real, marked faces, full of emotion. And he chose the contrast between shadow and light – the famous chiaroscuro – to make his compositions unique, giving them a dramatic power that still fascinates us today.

We should reflect on this style: Caravaggio’s light does not illuminate, it points.

What does this have to do with cybersecurity?

It has everything to do with it. Because too often, we do the opposite, confusing total visibility with control.
Companies have access to more and more dashboards, more logs, more alerts, more telemetry, mistaking the quantity of data for contextualized quality. Too much data, often fragmented across different dashboards, is nothing more than “noise”: thousands of collected events, sometimes presented through beautiful colorful charts, are very often useless when it comes to understanding what is really happening.
And so, let us take inspiration from the master. Caravaggio had understood something that companies often forget: illuminating everything does not mean seeing better.

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It is precisely from this idea that Gyala’s Agger was born: we do not claim to completely eliminate the darkness, but rather to provide you with a technology capable of directing the light. In IT/OT environments, the quantity of events, assets, signals, and anomalies grows much more rapidly than the ability to interpret them. Too much noise, no alarm.

Our Automated Cyber Resilience solution brings order to chaos, allowing you to see what is needed at that specific moment: it contextualizes, correlates, prioritizes, and reacts autonomously.

Read the article by Simona Piacenti, Head of Marketing & Communication at Gyala, on Red Hot Cyber.