Technology is complicated. Understanding how social media, hackers, ad tech, cybercrime, and the rest of it impact you and your community is hard.
I explore how we can build technology that has strong privacy and security protections built in by design. Whether that's in the cloud, on your smartphone, or anywhere else. I try to make it easier for everyone to know what impact technology has on their lives.
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My last posts that don't fall into one of the categories below.
The Twitter blue checkmark started as a security control and slowly turned into social status. What happened to the security part?
Toasters work so well that you forget they need maintenance. If we could get to taht level with cybersecurity controls we’d be lucky…until we weren’t
The included_files feature of Netlify Functions can be confusing. Here’s how to get it working.
Posts written as community education and outreach while I was a member of the AWS Heroes program.
Trying to come up to speed on cloud security at AWS re:Invent 2022? Here’s my session guide for attendees of all levels.
CJ Moses, CISO of AWS, delivers a leadership session to highlight the state of security and what’s next.
Highlights from Dr. Werner Vogel’s keynote at AWS re:Invent 2022.
References and write-ups based on my technology column series for CBC Radio.
ChatGPT makes the GPT-3 large language model usable in conversational scenarios. What impact will this have?
Mastodon is an open-source federated social media network. Twitter users are flocking to it only to find furstration.
The EU has mandated all smartphones use USB-C to charge by 2024, all laptops by 2026. It’s about time.
Posts that I wrote in my role as a Distinguished Cloud Strategist for Lacework.
Your centralized security needs to support a variety of teams building in the cloud…and they all have differing levels of maturity.
For stronger security, stop focusing on cybercriminals and pay attention to how your teams are building in the cloud.
AWS re:Inforce brought the people side of security into sharp focus.
From my time as a Vice President at Trend Micro, posts about cybercrime, security, and privacy.
The second series of my live streaming series for Trend Micro. In it,I speak to various cloud leaders about what’s happening in cloud.
In this live streaming series for Trend Micro, I speak to various cloud leaders about what’s happening in cloud.
Four principles to help you navigate a cloud migration and the realities of hybrid cloud.
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