“Here is a sponge,” the product manager tells you. “It picks up water. But I don’t want it to pick up random water that touches it! Please make sure it picks up only the right water.” It is hard to secure a sponge, you explain. If you want fine control…

Why it’s a good idea to hire diverse candidates from both a security and business growth perspective Calling on the same people over and over won’t get you the same results over and over. Last year’s solutions are not reliable in a field like cybersecurity. …

“You want to put how much money in my bank account? Sure!” Source: DanielFoster437 What’s social engineering? “Social engineering” means tricking people into providing credentials or granting access that they shouldn’t. Nobody’s immune to it, because you can’t patch the human brain. (Not even you, Elon Musk! Not yet!) There’s no firewall that…

Is your company ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Are you? ✅ No, what’s the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”? … Read my blog to find out. ✅ Yes… Great! Read my blog as a primer! ✅ I’m not sure… That’s OK, try reading my article while you figure it out. The “Tech Company” Powder Keg Every company wants to call itself a tech company. DoorDash delivers food, but it calls itself a tech company. Uber delivers passengers, but it calls itself a tech company. Why do companies do this? Because software scales easier than physical infrastructure. A company that makes and moves software can grow…

To top off an already dismal year, there was one final parting shot from the dumpster fire that was 2020: cyber-espionage. In December of 2020, the federal government acknowledged a massive data breach. U.S. …

These are notes from a great talk I heard on Vimeo about cloud infrastructure, distributed teams, AI, ML and the future of security. I hope you find them as inspiring and positive as I did. 2020 is on its way out and distributed, cloud-based operations are here to stay. As…