Ahmad Salar

A lot of digital security products focus on detecting threats after something suspicious has already happened.

But many problems begin earlier: approving the wrong permission, downloading from an unofficial source, trusting a familiar-looking page, or accepting a prompt without enough context.

This makes me wonder whether the real issue is a lack of security tools, or a lack of clear information at the moment a user is making a decision.

My view is that most people do not want more alerts or technical dashboards. They want to understand:

Got three outreach messages this week that all mentioned something specific about my product, referenced a post I made, sounded like someone had actually looked at what I do. Replied to one with a simple question. Took them over a day to answer something a real person would've typed back in a minute.

That's the weird part now. A bad cold email used to be easy to spot, generic greeting, no personalization, obviously copy pasted. Now the personalization itself is automated, so the one thing that used to signal someone actually cared doesn't mean anything anymore.

I wonder how people are handling this from both sides. If you send outreach, are you leaning into AI personalization or avoiding it because you think people can smell it now. And if you're on the receiving end, has anything actually worked to tell real interest apart from a well disguised template before you waste time replying.