Sitting here at my desk — third coffee in, still honestly buzzing — and I’m thinking about how cybersecurity in 2020 compares to when I started all those years ago in 1993 as a network admin. Yup, the days before we carried massive multiplexers for voice and data over PSTN, and a firewall meant something
I’m sitting at my desk—third coffee of the day is now in full effect—and considering just how much has changed in the cybersecurity world since I joined as a network admin in 1993. Yeah, 1993. Before we were even all talkin’ about this newfangled PSTN (public switched telephone network) thingy’ to mux voice and data
It’s just a little after my third coffee, and I’m sipping on it and I’m reading my email, and I’m thinking over my career which actually named back in 1993—when I was just a humble network admin, I was managing PSTN muxes for voice and data. Those early days seem like a lifetime ago, and
So sitting here at my desk having drunk my third coffee of the morning, I feel like I’m stringing together decades of stories — some gritty, some just downright annoying — to a tale of cybersecurity that (if I’m lucky) helps you steer around some of the potholes I encountered while typing this. I began
