Cybersecurity from someone who ran enterprise security for two decades and passed every audit once PCI applied. Real talk on what protects a business and what just looks like protection, from the infrastructure side where the actual work happens, plus the social engineering and insider threats most companies miss.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
A woman I barely knew called at 2:47 in the morning because ransomware had taken thirty years of family photographs. I knew within seconds there was nothing I could do, and worked until dawn anyway. The book that came out…
CybersecurityJuly 13, 2026
Every article in this series was secretly about security. The capstone: why the green checkmark is a component and not a defense, what a working posture looks like in practice, and the five questions no product can answer.
CybersecurityJuly 13, 2026
The attack that reached my site did not come at it. It came through it, riding a trusted update channel. Why supply chain attacks scale, why they extend to hardware, and how to manage a chain you cannot eliminate.
CybersecurityJuly 13, 2026
A plugin folder appeared on my site that I never installed. It was caught before it did damage, and the investigation changed how I run every part of my WordPress stack.
CybersecurityJuly 8, 2026
Cloud security in 2026 runs on Zero Trust. A book that still teaches castle-and-moat thinking is teaching a model the field abandoned.
CybersecurityJuly 6, 2026
There is a great deal of security writing and almost none of it is addressed to the people losing money.
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
Pass the audit and nothing happens. Fail it and the company loses the ability to take credit cards. For eight straight years I carried a major retailer through PCI audits that nobody outside IT ever noticed, and that invisibility is…
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
Somebody opened a link, and their machine was a brick. Literally unrecoverable. Across a fleet of 1,500 desktops and laptops we lost machines to ransomware over and over, and never lost the network, because the network was designed by people…
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
The email said malware had been quarantined on my site and I had three days to fix it. Deleting the file took a minute. The forensics took two days, and the trail ended somewhere worse than a break-in: the plugin…
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
Our PCI auditor looked at a legacy database connection we could not afford to rebuild and said: wrap it in a VPN. That sentence introduced us to mitigating controls, turned a six-figure project into a configuration change, and taught me…
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
Clean machine A. While you are cleaning machine B, machine C reinfects A. We played whack-a-mole against a network worm that never got tired, and lost, until we stopped treating machines and started treating the network.
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
ILOVEYOU never encrypted a file or stole a password from us. It just sent mail, from hundreds of our machines at once, until our Exchange server ran out of disk space and died. Recovery took weeks, and it changed how…
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