I attended the Dell Technologies Forum today. It had lots of what you get at an industry conference; vendors organize these things to sell you stuff, after all. One thing that was interesting to observe is how Dell was pitching on-prem inference. They are really leaning on on-prem inference and playing on unpredictable costs of…
When I talk to management to explain what the cybersecurity regulation means for our vendor management practices, it takes no time for them to grasp security reviews. From there, it is an easy step to show them how a vendor holding certifications and audit reports makes the review simple: you ask for the certifications and…
October Patch Tuesday saw over 1,400 vulnerabilities being patched. This is a new record. What makes it interesting is that it comes after new records in July and September. October alone has patched more vulnerabilities than all of 2025 (over 1,100). I am quite skeptical of claims about AI, especially about business value. But this…
Working in security, sometimes I feel like the technical controls, policies and trainings only go so far. What we need to secure the company is a miracle. Some divine intervention to save us from damnation. So when I get a few hours over a weekend, I design and craft purity seals to keep the endpoints…
For your edification and pleasure, I present the CIA Sabotage Field Manual from 1944. Section 5, in particular, lists suggestions for civilians working under Nazi occupation on how to harm the war effort. Some of them are devious, out right devilish, like forgetting to provide paper in toilets. Others unfortunately remind me too much of how we work today.
Listening to the Ecology of Ideas Podcast with Alexis Shotwell, I got inspired to write this post. The episode is about getting around purity politics to affect political change, and it has some obvious anarchist inspirations. I found it ironic that I use pretty much the same principles to get things done in my corporate…
As I get older, I become more cranky. What used to excite me now frustrates me. Chief among these frustrations is social media. Once I poked my friends mercilessly on Facebook, now I can’t stand TikTok or Instagram. I no longer have any social media, and it makes life hard, as everything from poetry slams…
No it is not a sequel to a horror movie. It is a directive from EU (Directive 2022/2555) that was supposed to increase the security standards for essential and important entities. You can find the full text here (Thank you EU!). The directive is quite tick and not every part of it applies to everyone….
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