AIBefore you buy AI-branded anomaly detection, ask the vendor one question: what does it compute? If the answer is a baseline and a deviation from that baseline, you are buying a method that has worked since long before anyone put…
IT OperationsSoftware that keeps customer rules in code has a ceiling, and you find the ceiling at the worst possible time. Software that keeps them in a table has no ceiling at all.
AIOne question will tell you whether your AI agent project is going to work, and it takes an afternoon to answer. The question is not what the agent can do. It is what the agent is allowed to do when…
CybersecurityA USB drive from a parking lot crossed the Pentagon's air gap in 2008 and took 14 months to remove. The cleanup created US Cyber Command. Part eight of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityGoing low-tech didn't save Hezbollah, because the devices were the attack. Why supply chain trust is a vulnerability for anyone who buys anything. Part six of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityNatanz was air-gapped, and Stuxnet crossed it anyway, on USB drives, stolen certificates, and four unknown flaws. Part three of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityStuxnet was the first attack that reached out of a screen and broke real machines, destroying a thousand centrifuges at an air-gapped nuclear plant. Part two of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityIn one night in 1988, a self-copying program jammed a tenth of the internet and ended the assumption that the network could be trusted. The first article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
HostingPlugins are generally in better shape than themes, but they grow sideways: the tool you installed for one job quietly becomes a platform doing fifteen. An afternoon audit puts the stack back on a diet.
HostingI opened up the theme running my website and found dead code, three settings systems, and an animation for an element that never existed. Here is why commercial themes end up this way and what you can actually do about…
Business ContinuityMy consultant called while I was driving to a Renaissance fair: the power had failed, the generator had not come on, one UPS was missing, a coin-sized battery had died, the DR link had been down for two days, and…
Change ManagementNobody in the room called it digital transformation, because the term did not exist. We had a retailer running accounting, HR, and payroll on paper, a mandate to computerize all of it, and years later the industry invented a name…
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