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Insights From Nearly 30 Years in Networking and Cybersecurity

I am writing this after my third cup of coffee today — forgive me if I get a little more rambly than usual. The thing is, I’ve been in networking and cybersecurity for nearly three decades at this point… and sure as hell some of it ain’t textbook theory. I began my career way back

Reflections on Cybersecurity from Three Decades in the Field

I am sitting here at a desk on my third coffee of the morning, my hardware hacking village post-DefCon high finally starting to subside. It is strange that some things after nearly three decades in this business (I started as a network admin back in 1993, managing PSTN multiplexers for voice and data), remain somewhat

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 count my knee-deep-in-as-a-network-admin back in ’93-era, juggling voice and data

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 deep in zero trust 30 years later I would have laughed at