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Tag: Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity articles from someone who ran security for a national retailer for two decades and passed every audit. Real talk on what protects a business and what just looks like protection, from the infrastructure side where the actual work happens.
CybersecurityWordPress Security Is a Posture, Not a Plugin
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.
Cloud ComputingGhostwriting a Cloud Security Book in the Zero Trust Era
Cloud security in 2026 runs on Zero Trust. A book that still teaches castle-and-moat thinking is teaching a model the field abandoned.
Book WritingThe People Getting Attacked Are the Ones Nobody Writes For
There is a great deal of security writing and almost none of it is addressed to the people losing money.
AuditsThe Consultant We Fired for Cracking Our Passwords
The PCI scan found L0phtCrack, a password cracker, sitting on one of our servers. We hunted it down expecting an intruder. We found our own consultant, who needed passwords to do his job and decided cracking them was faster than…
CybersecurityDefense in Layers: Why One Scanner Is Zero Scanners
The fake UPS email arrived five minutes after my real eBay order, pixel-perfect, and I clicked it. Then the screen turned red: infection stopped, infection stopped, infection stopped. That is what layers are for, because the one filter that always…
CybersecuritySecurity Training That Trains Nothing (And the Kind That Works)
I have to take gamified security tests to consult for companies, and I have rewritten the book on phishing, literally: KnowBe4's Cyberheist, twice, credited alongside Roger A. Grimes. The gap between those two kinds of training is the gap between…
CareersDo IT Certifications Still Move Your Career in 2026?
IT certifications still move careers in 2026, but which ones and why has shifted. The catch is a certificate only helps when it maps to a real skill and role.
Critical ThinkingInternet Trolls: The 16 Behaviors That Attract Them
Trolls do not choose targets at random; they go where the reaction is, and certain online behaviors light them up like a beacon, from sharing personal stories to correcting people to simply being visible. None of these are wrong. But…
Authority Through AuthorshipWill Publishing a Cybersecurity Book Help Attackers?
A cybersecurity book helps attackers only if you print the one wrong thing, the working exploit. You can write deeply about how attacks unfold and how to defend against them without ever handing over a usable map. The rule is…
CybersecurityThe Old Friend Who Suddenly Needed Money: A Scam I Spotted on Message One
A name I had not seen in thirteen years appeared in my Facebook messages, an old friend who within a few lines had no money for food. I knew where it was going before she got there, because being scammed…
CybersecurityI Got Caught Hacking in 1981. The Professor Made Me Head of Security.
The biggest breach I ever watched was defeated by a brick propping a door open for smoke breaks. Home security fails at the human seam, not the technical one.