Author: Benjamin Knauss
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Do the “password shuffle” every 90 days?
Has this decades-old practice done more harm than good? For years, mandatory password rotation was a compliance checkbox, a well-intentioned rule from an era before we had robust breach detection. The theory was sound: limit the lifespan of a stolen credential. The reality, as we all know, is very different. Predictable human behavior kicks in.…
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REDO has room
If you happen to live near Draper, UT, A company named Redo is hiring for a security architect, its AWS based and seems like a good bunch of people. https://lnkd.in/g558_mPw #job #Cyber #redo #racter
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Pearl Clutching
Another cloud outage, another flurry of posts about how cloud was the wrong choice and this is what happens when you put your eggs in one basket. It was not cloud that brought these sites down, failure is to be expected in any complex system, it was a lack of adherence to best practices. It…
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DPRK IT Workers
I’ve been digging into this ‘DPRK IT Worker’ threat, and we’re not just fighting fake resumes anymore; we’re fighting an adversary who has a U.S.-based accomplice making their overseas activity look like it’s coming from the USA rather than North Korea/China/Russia. So, how do we catch them? For me, it starts at the endpoint. I’m…
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The AI Reckoning: Civilization’s Great Disruption
We face with grim inevitability the specter of artificial intelligence descending upon global labor markets—a revolution wielding algorithmic precision like some merciless digital scythe. The professional classes of the West—those comfortably ensconced in climate-controlled offices, diligently parsing spreadsheets and drafting memos—are awakening to their own obsolescence. Machines require no benefits, demand no raises, and outperform…
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Titans of Industry and Innovation: Bridging the Legacy of Gates, Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg with the Pioneers of the Past
In the dawn of 2024, we find ourselves in a reflective juncture, contemplating the striking parallels that emerge when we juxtapose today’s technological luminaries with the industrial titans of yore. Names like Gates, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, and Pichai echo with a resonance similar to that of Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie. These modern visionaries, akin to…