Thoughts & Articles

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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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]