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10-Apr-2025
Security is a service business...one star
17-Mar-2025
Let's Talk Cloud
14-Mar-2025
Mornings with Mark
13-Mar-2025
My years on CBC
10-Feb-2025
Helping people get the most out of AWS re:Invent
20-Apr-2023
Some small steps towards better security communication and education
01-Apr-2023
The Failure of the Most Desirable Security Control Ever
14-Dec-2022
ChatGPT Delivers Ideas and Answers on Demand, If You Know How To Ask
02-Dec-2022
AWS re:Invent 2022 Attendee Guide: Security
01-Dec-2022
Accelerating innovation at AWS Security
01-Dec-2022
Werner Vogels Keynote Play-by-play
30-Nov-2022
Ruba Borno AWS Partner Keynote Play-by-play
30-Nov-2022
Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote Play-by-play
29-Nov-2022
Adam Selipsky Keynote Play-by-play
28-Nov-2022
Monday Night Live With Peter DeSantis
28-Nov-2022
New Features That Will Help You Build Better From Day One at AWS re:Invent
28-Nov-2022
The Five Most Interesting AWS (p)re:Invent Announcements for Cloud Security
25-Nov-2022
Mastodon's Promising Federated Approach Will Frustrate You More Than Twitter
09-Oct-2022
Has the EU Finally Made the U in USB-C Actually Stand for Universal?
26-Aug-2022
Why is it so hard to law enforcement to track down harassers?
21-Aug-2022
The Ultimate Guide to AWS re:Invent 2022
07-Aug-2022
Canadians Are Reliant on Rogers Whether We Like It or Not
24-Jun-2022
It’s Official, Serverless Is Now Meaningless and That’s...Ok?
22-Jun-2022
Is Google LaMDA Sentient?
08-Apr-2022
Twitter To Add Edit Button...Finally
06-Feb-2022
NFTs, Web3, and The Blockchain Have Their Place…Maybe
05-Feb-2022
Hype & Money Are Testing The Idea of NFTs
04-Feb-2022
Why Multi-Factor Authentication Is Critical To Stopping Hackers From Getting Into Your Accounts
03-Feb-2022
What Is A Bug Bounty And Why Are They Important?
02-Feb-2022
A 326 Million Dollar Smart Contract Bug
01-Feb-2022
Why Do Amazon S3 Data Breaches Keep Happening?
31-Jan-2022
Can You Own A Colour? Can You Try?
30-Jan-2022
The Number One Problem With Web3 Smart Contracts
29-Jan-2022
Is A Bug In A Web3 Smart Contract Part of the Contract?
28-Jan-2022
When Is a Hacker Not a Hacker?
27-Jan-2022
If Apple’s FaceID Works With Masks On, Will That Reduce Your Security?
26-Jan-2022
Why You Should Build Less, Not More
25-Jan-2022
An Uncomfortable Admission On Work
24-Jan-2022
Is Digital Privacy Important?
23-Jan-2022
How To Explain Complex Technology Topics To A Broad Audience
22-Jan-2022
Risk Analysis (And Essays) Shouldn’t End in “Um”
21-Jan-2022
How Can You Figure out How Likely an App Is to Have Security Problems?
20-Jan-2022
How The App Privacy Card in the Apple App Store Matters To You
19-Jan-2022
Despite 5G’s Capabilities, Mobile Providers Can’t Connect With Airline Industry
19-Jan-2022
Do You Care About Data Privacy? Does Anyone?
18-Jan-2022
Encryption Is Good For You and Your Community
17-Jan-2022
Would You Put Your Security in the Hands of a Guess?
16-Jan-2022
What Is Risk?
15-Jan-2022
Security Challenges With NFTs
14-Jan-2022
You Just Bought An NFT, What Did You Actually Buy?
13-Jan-2022
What Are Blockchain, Web3, and NFTs?
12-Jan-2022
Meeting Goals With Feedback Loops
11-Jan-2022
Your Goal In Building Something With Technology
10-Jan-2022
Digital Privacy Is All About Choice
09-Jan-2022
Stop Focusing on Stopping Hackers and Cybercriminals
08-Jan-2022
Why Aren’t Security and Privacy Part of the Foundation of Technology?
13-Dec-2021
Can We Improve How IDT Stored Secrets in AWS in 2017?
06-Dec-2021
Can We Improve How iRobot Deployed Microservices in 2017?
02-Dec-2021
Stephen Schmidt's Security Leadership Session at AWS re:Invent 2021
02-Dec-2021
Werner Vogel's Keynote at AWS re:Invent 2021
02-Dec-2021
How To Build Streaming Media Solutions In The AWS Cloud
01-Dec-2021
Opinions my own: Corey Quinn & Bill Vass
01-Dec-2021
Peter DeSantis' Keynote at AWS re:Invent 2021
01-Dec-2021
Swami Sivasubramanian's Keynote at AWS re:Invent 2021
30-Nov-2021
A First Look At The Brand New Amazon Inspector
30-Nov-2021
Adam Selipsky's Keynote at AWS re:Invent 2021
29-Nov-2021
AWS Re-launches Amazon Inspector To Find Software Vulnerabilities
29-Nov-2021
The Top AWS re:Invent Announcements
26-Nov-2021
Getting The Most Out of AWS re:Invent Remotely
26-Nov-2021
Performance Efficiency in the AWS Well-Architected Framework
26-Nov-2021
The Ultimate Guide to AWS re:Invent 2021
25-Nov-2021
Reliability in the AWS Well-Architected Framework
25-Nov-2021
How (not)? to move a security practice to the cloud
24-Nov-2021
Cost Optimization in the AWS Well-Architected Framework
24-Nov-2021
Updating your security practice for the cloud, step-by-step
23-Nov-2021
Security in the AWS Well-Architected Framework
22-Nov-2021
Operational Excellence in the AWS Well-Architected Framework
22-Nov-2021
Can We Improve How Airbnb Tested Their Amazon RDS Databases in 2017?
19-Nov-2021
AWS Data Wrangler
19-Nov-2021
Smithy
18-Nov-2021
Amazon API Gateway Serverless Developer Portal
18-Nov-2021
Amazon S3 Glacier Re:Freezer
17-Nov-2021
Amazon QuickSight Embedding SDK
17-Nov-2021
AWS Perspective
16-Nov-2021
AWS WAF Security Automations
16-Nov-2021
Gluon TS (Time Series)
15-Nov-2021
AWS Deployment Framework
15-Nov-2021
AWS Lambda Powertools (Python)
15-Nov-2021
Can We Improve How Station X Processed Genomics Data on AWS in 2017?
15-Nov-2021
The Infinite Loop of Lost Potential
12-Nov-2021
Avoiding overload in distributed systems by putting the smaller service in control
11-Nov-2021
Automating safe, hands-off deployments
10-Nov-2021
Fairness in multi-tenant systems
10-Nov-2021
This One Mistake Will Stop a DevSecOps Shift Left Strategy Dead in Its Tracks
09-Nov-2021
Making retries safe with idempotent APIs
08-Nov-2021
Timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitter
08-Nov-2021
Can We Improve How Capital One Enforced Policies in AWS with Cloud Custodian in 2017?
05-Nov-2021
Machine Learning Best Practices for Public Sector Organizations
04-Nov-2021
AWS Serverless Multi-Tier Architectures with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda
03-Nov-2021
NIST Cybersecurity Framework