Real-World Learnings in Cybersecurity and Networking: Insights from a Veteran I am here at my desk, 3rd coffee of the night currently in hand and wiiiired the fuck up after just returning from DefCon’s hardware hacking village (video to come). However — having worked in this field since the early 2000s (even earlier if you
From Network Admin to Cybersecurity Consultant: Reflections on Zero Trust and Security Third coffee on the desk, still dazed from the DefCon trip last week and three different banks ask for help to upgrade their zero trust architectures. If you had told me in 1993 while crawling inside PSTN mux racks that I’d be knee
Reflections on Cybersecurity: From PSTN to Zero Trust Now that I’m three coffees deep, whilst sitting at my desk, I felt the urge to write about some of the realities that I have seen every single day in cybersecurity. I still have remnants of my run as a network admin from way back in 1993
Lessons From Thirty Years in Cybersecurity Having said that (and sitting here after my third coffee of the day — yes, I drink three cups), what are a few things thirty years in cybersecurity have taught me? I started work as network administrator back in ’93 (before pretty much everyone knew what a firewall was)
