SearchInform dedicated a post to the professional holiday of information security specialists and shared humorous cards about their work. The practical point is simple: it’s a greeting and a collection of jokes about familiar work situations, not a report of a real incident or a new product feature. It’s important not to confuse the framing with the subject of the post: the urgent language serves as a setup, not a description of an event in the infrastructure.
The authors begin in the style of an operational alert: an alert has fired, the team opens an epic, priority — critical. Then it turns out that the “incident” is a happy one: today is the professional holiday. The contrast between words familiar to an infosec team and a reason to celebrate is the basis of the joke. The irony isn’t that security supposedly doesn’t matter, but how quickly an ordinary work message can redirect attention to something urgent.
For someone who sees alerts every day, this approach is recognizable without any extra technical background. The words “alert” and “critical priority” usually create the expectation that you need to check the signal and decide what to do next. In this post, they’re deliberately leading not to an investigation, but to a holiday greeting. Pigman the Engineer would appreciate this change of priority too: a rare case when urgency doesn’t break anything.
What exactly the company prepared
SearchInform congratulates security professionals and wishes them fewer suspicious events, fewer dubious attachments from employees, and workdays without the word “urgent.” This is a wish, not a report on the work of a particular department or statistics on recorded threats. The material contains no data on the number of incidents, the frequency of phishing emails, or how often teams have to respond to urgent requests. So these phrases should be read as a general professional joke, not as a description of a particular organization.
Another part of the post is illustrated cards about the everyday lives of infosec specialists. The company suggests taking a look and choosing the most relatable one. The authors note that some situations are shown with exaggeration, but add a joke about a character with six arms: they’re not sure that’s an exaggeration. The text description doesn’t list the scenarios themselves, so it wouldn’t be right to attribute specific scenes or problems to the cards. Only the format is confirmed: a collection of humorous cards about everyday professional life.
This distinction matters when recounting the news. There’s no basis for concluding that the cards depict real cases from the company or that every security professional will recognize their own work in them. The invitation to choose the “most relatable” card is a way to get the audience involved in a lighthearted discussion, not proof that the situations shown are typical. A team might find a familiar mood in them, but the source doesn’t back this up with a poll, study, or measurement.
How to read “incident” in the headline
The word “incident” in the post’s headline works as an attention-grabber, after which the text immediately reveals a different, holiday context. This isn’t a report of a threat, outage, data leak, or service disruption. The post contains no description of an affected system, signs of an attack, consequences, or response measures. Accordingly, the professional terms here don’t tell us anything about the security posture of SearchInform or its clients.
The distinction is simple, but useful: the headline and opening sentence imitate the form of operational communication, while the rest of the text sets the real topic — a greeting and cards. The word “alert” alone isn’t enough to call the post a report of a monitoring system firing. Likewise, mentioning critical priority doesn’t mean a real task was assigned that status. In the source, it’s part of a humorous opening, and it shouldn’t be expanded into a technical event.
For an editor or reader scrolling through a security news feed, this is a good reason to look beyond the headline and check what the text actually confirms. In this case, what’s confirmed is a holiday greeting and a collection of cards; there are no operational details. This check doesn’t require complex analysis: it’s enough to separate the decorative framing from the factual message. Otherwise, it’s easy to recount a joke as an incident, even though the material clearly shifts attention to the professional holiday.
What you can do with the collection
The post invites readers to look through the cards and decide which one seems the most relatable. In its update, SearchInform also mentions the option to download the entire collection as a single file. That’s a concrete practical detail, although the source doesn’t specify the file format, size, distribution method, or other technical terms. So it’s fair to say that you can download the collection as one file, but not to add details that aren’t in the post.
The format is convenient because it isn’t limited to viewing the cards in the post: the authors specifically noted the option to get them together. At the same time, the text doesn’t explain what scenarios the file is intended for — for example, whether it can be used in a team’s internal channels or in presentations. It doesn’t specify reuse conditions either. So the news should stick to what’s confirmed: there are cards, readers are invited to look at them, and the collection can be downloaded as a single file.
The post doesn’t announce SearchInform tools, product changes, recommendations for configuring security, or new response procedures. There are no commands, APIs, technical requirements, or measurable results. This clarification isn’t meant to diminish the post, but to properly define its value: it offers a professional greeting and material for lightly recognizing everyday work situations. The source describes no engineering change that needs to be planned or implemented.
The company doesn’t name a specific calendar date for the holiday, the author of the cards, or their number. It also doesn’t specify exactly which situations in the cards are exaggerated. These gaps don’t prevent us from understanding the message, but they limit what can be added to the news without speculation. It’s enough to say that SearchInform congratulated information security specialists and published a humorous collection about their work.
In the end, the headline “We have an incident!” turns out to be just a humorous way into a holiday piece. The real message is a wish for infosec specialists to have fewer suspicious events and urgent workdays, along with an invitation to look through the cards. For readers who want the collection itself, the post includes the option to get it as a single file. That’s where the useful technical details end: the rest is recognizable professional irony, not a hidden incident report.
