The following is a work of fiction. However all the solutions are real things I’ve attempted in my time as a Cloud Consultant. Image this, you’re minding your own business when an empowered developer pops out of nowhere. They need to get an application deployed. You begin to open your [...]
The following is a work of fiction. However all the solutions are real things I’ve attempted in my time as a Cloud Consultant. Image this, you’re minding your own business when an empowered developer pops out of nowhere. They need to get an application deployed. You begin to open your ...
As a leader, it can be tempting to push your team to get the most out of them and to get results. People don’t like like saying no and often just want to be helpful and give it their all. Many people will even offer to do things like take ...
I recently read an article by Daniel Miessler that’s been making the rounds about his predictions for the future of cybersecurity. He talks about changes to organizations, the market and the day to day of cybersecurity professionals. His post is definitely worth a read. I also decided to write down ...
WordPress and AWS have a lot in common. They are both insanely popular, very accessible, and even launched within a year of each other. They are both very easy to get started with and even easier to get tangled up in complexity if you’re not careful. What follows is an ...
One insight that I’ve found pretty ubiquitous in my career is that engineers hate being made to provide estimates on things. Still, in my role selling consulting engagements and projects, estimates were almost always needed and engineering input has been essential in making them. As an engineering leader, I’ve developed ...
I recently helped a client migrate their Devops Pipelines to Github Actions. One of the nice features about GH is that its relatively easy to setup and use an identity provider that will allow Github to do what it needs without having to store credentials. I found some great resources ...
I hear a lot of talk about cloud lockin. I hear it from people with self funded startups, authors on tech blogs and developers. The argument I hear most is that if you start using cloud native tooling, you’ll become dependent on it, accumulate tech debt and be forever burdened. ...
I got this picture in my family chat recently with a the question “is this correct?” The short answer is “kinda”. The long answer is this blog post 🙂 What is Brute Forcing Put simply, brute forcing means that a password is guessed. This is as opposed to it having ...
As summer nears its end, there’s a lot of discussion about how and when to reopen schools and universities. As a security professional, I can’t help but see the parallels between protecting students and faculty from a pandemic and protecting networks from malware. This post will examine those similarities from ...
A few months ago during a conversation at a secops event, the topic of granting exceptions came up. One of the attendees was shared his dismay. “Management is always steamrolling me” he complained, “people are just being lazy, they should be able to do it right” and added “if it ...
The following is a work of fiction. However all the solutions are real things I’ve attempted in my time as a Cloud Consultant. Image this, you’re minding your own business when an empowered developer pops out of nowhere. They need to get an application deployed. You begin to open your [...]
