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Cybersecurity Insights From an Old Network Admin

It’s midmorning here at my desk, third cup of coffee in hand — and to be honest, this is when I do some of my best thinking. Cybersecurity is a monster that I have been fighting back since before the vast majority of the world even knew the internet could be a dangerous place. I’m

Journey of a Cybersecurity Consultant: From PSTN to Zero Trust Networks

I’m sitting here at my desk, having downed my third coffee, thinking about the roads that got me here today. Cybersecurity consultant of a few eras (yep was a network admin in ‘93), founder of P J Networks Pvt Ltd, I’m currently still coming down off my caffeine high from just getting back from DefCon’s

The Transition From PSTN to Zero Trust: A Network Guy’s Journey

It’s 9:30 a.m., and my third cup of coffee is finally starting to kick in, and I’m contemplating a career that began all the way back in 1993. I was a newb network admin, and I was playing the PSTN multiplexers—yes, those monstrous creatures that embodied the voice and data transport medium, long before anyone

From Slammer Worm to Zero Trust and Microsystems: Reminiscing the Past

Yet here I am, on my third morning coffee, pondering a career that began in 1993 at age 19 as a kid look what was surely heaven – a sea of blinking router lights and tangled PSTN lines and muxes that transformed voice and data. That was before cybersecurity had risen to its current buzzword