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Reflections on Cybersecurity Evolution and Zero-Trust Challenges

It’s a mid-morning here, and I’m at my desk on my third coffee where I’m thinking about just how far cybersecurity has come since I transitioned from a network admin back in 1993. Yes, 1993. When controlling voice and data multiplexers over the PSTN was still rocket science, and we hadn’t even yet coined terms

From Network Admin to Cybersecurity Consultant: A Journey Through Zero Trust and Hardware Hacking

Oh, it’s a little after 10:00 AM and my third cup of coffee is kicking in, and I’m sitting at my desk thinking about a career that began in ’93, when network admins like me were the gatekeepers of data and voice multiplexing over PSTN lines. It was a simpler time, until we all realized

Transitioning from PSTN to Zero Trust: Learnings from the Trenches

And here I am now, like third coffee-into-me sitting at my desk — Still vibing off that recent DefCon trip (hardware hacking village? Mind-blowing stuff—more on that later). Been doing this cybersecurity thing since the early 2000s But that was far from the beginning of my path— that would go back to ‘93 as an

Reflections on Cybersecurity and the Future of Zero Trust Architecture

I am sitting here at my desk, second coffee of the day in hand and still reeling from walking the hardware hacking village at DefCon — not just by the crazy awesome projects that I saw, but by the fact that many of the people who were in the room don’t realize what a bright