I have to get this off my chest — most of the technical demos I’ve seen in the last decade have been awful. There, I said it, now let me explain. Lack of flexibility — Someone is teaching pre-sales people to, as one of my mentors once said “Show up…

There’s a movie about “AI becoming sentient and wiping out humans” — we all know it and it’s scary as hell. So when OpenAI started talking about how magical their AI was, a small section of the human population cringed a bit. Then we heard that AI was at times…

A photograph is a snapshot of a point in time. It tells us where we were, what we looked like, and gives us some insights into how we felt. I love to take photographs, I think they’re tremendously powerful. While snapshots of our lives are a wonderful thing for memories…

In case you’ve somehow missed the headlines, the education systems in this country are under attack. Stow your politics, I’m talking cyber. The latest is the 2nd largest school district in the United States — LA Unified School District was briefly taken offline and down over the Labor Day holiday…

Everyone’s talking about automation as cyber security’s salvation. I wish I could agree with the same level of enthusiasm as some of my colleagues and friends. The fact is, no matter how much lipstick you throw on that pig, it still tastes like bacon. It appears to me that what…

Have you ever had someone in the cyber security world point to an article about a class-action settlement from a data breach, or a cost-of-breach study and say something like this? “See, that breach cost them $200M, if they had spent half of that on a security budget this wouldn’t…

Prologue You’re probably not reading this when I release it. …

I’m going to first point you to this tweet, because it’s the basis for this short post: https://twitter.com/Wh1t3Rabbit/status/1466161788035026950 So I’ve been thinking since I wrote this re-tweet. At first it was my typical snark and meant to be a bit funny. …

If you’ve consulted or advised security leaders in any capacity this post will likely speak to you. It’s a topic I’ve covered in personal conversation dozens of times, and it’s once again thrust into the fore of my mind here at re:Invent in Las Vegas. Compliance requirements are piling up…