Essays

Security is a service business...one star

Security teams have grown to address very specific needs. Their structure can make it especially challenging to deliver great service to other areas of the business. Here's how you can start other change that.

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Let's Talk Cloud

Let's Talk Cloud was a show I launched for Trend Micro. Each episode I spoke with a member of the wider community and together we explored a specific topic in cloud security.

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Mornings with Mark

A look back at my security and privacy vlog from 2018—2019.

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My years on CBC

Over eight years, I had a lot of fun appearing on CBC helping Canadians to better understand technology and how it impacts us and our communities.

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Helping people get the most out of AWS re:Invent

AWS re:Invent is the biggest conference in cloud and has been growing year over year. For several years in a row, I wrote THE guide that helped hundreds of thousands of folks get the most out of the show.

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The Failure of the Most Desirable Security Control Ever

The Twitter blue checkmark started as a security control and slowly turned into social status. What happened to the security part?

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ChatGPT Delivers Ideas and Answers on Demand, If You Know How To Ask

ChatGPT makes the GPT-3 large language model usable in conversational scenarios. What impact will this have?

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AWS re:Invent 2022 Attendee Guide: Security

Trying to come up to speed on cloud security at AWS re:Invent 2022? Here's my session guide for attendees of all levels.

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