CISO Roadmap: The First 90 Days

ciso roadmap

Learn about three key areas you need to think about as a CISO, and develop a plan for strengthening your information security program. (I originally wrote this article for GitGuardian’s blog) Introduction You may have found this article for several…

Black Box Seccomp Profiling

seccomp

At work we are migrating towards a DevOps culture within the IT department, and that comes with some security nuances. Moving forward, our applications will be more centered around container development and Kubernetes deployment. This presents the security team with…

Project: Browser-ception

Have you ever dreamed of opening up your web browser, navigating to a website, and once the website loads, you have a whole other functional browser within that web page??? Neither had I until I read this blog post. If…

How far will I go for my sport?

The last 14 months I’ve been dealing with a lingering injury that as been from bad to good and back again. My adductor longus is tearing off the bone in my pelvis, and I’ve been through all sorts of treatments…

Google and Big Data

google-data

Today I came across some statistics that completely changed my perspective on what Google is. When you read the word “Google”, what comes to mind? For most people it is probably the search engine. Some people may see a bigger…

Research Project: Jaws

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Every day, security researchers find bugs in programs that would enable malicious actors to perform nefarious deeds by exploiting them. Although most of the successful hacking groups are migrating towards “file-less malware” and “living-off-the-land techniques” to establish persistence and control,…

5 Years of Change

cedar valley trail

Today we had a recovery run, and I was going 10 miles. The people I ran with turned around after 3, so I had a lot of time to myself to think. I don’t usually think about a whole lot…

Hello world!

This is my first post! I plan to use this blog to talk about whatever is going on in my life, whether it be running, computer projects, or anything else.