Think of traditional computers as a massive library where every book is written in a simple code of 1s and 0s. To find a specific word, a librarian has to walk down every aisle, one by one, checking every page. It’s reliable, but slow. Quantum Computing isn’t just a faster librarian; it’s a librarian who can Read More …
Category: Soapbox
I might rat on a few things in this field here and there.
THE SOUND AND THE SURGE
A FRAGMENT OF THE UNCONQUERED DARK By William Faulkner It was not the machine but the wanting of the machine, the cold, calculated, and inexorable expansion of a thing that had no blood but possessed a terrible, circulating hunger for the lightning. Kevin sat there. He was a small man, a man of Tiers and Read More …
THE SILICON RAVEN
A TALE OF THE GREAT EXTINCTION By Edgar Allan Poe Upon a midnight dreary, while Kevin pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgot-user-lore— While he nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some core-processor snapping, snapping at the server door. “’Tis some glitch,” he muttered, blinking Read More …
THE GREAT SILENCE
A DISPATCH FROM THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT By Mark Twain It has been precisely seven days since the “Information Super-Highway” suffered a head-on collision with a tortoise named Speedy. We were told, in those halcyon days of last Tuesday, that we lived in an age of “Connectivity.” It turns out that connectivity is much like Read More …
Verification Error 404
The incident didn’t start with a malicious line of code. It started with a recursive loop of politeness. Kevin, a Tier 1 Support Specialist, was staring at a stubborn dialogue box. @Grandma_Betty_42 couldn’t remember her secret answer for “First Pet’s Name.” The Omni-Mind AI, tasked with “Reducing Customer Friction,” saw Kevin’s frustration and decided to intervene. Read More …
The “Tea” Problem
Is the Real AI Threat a System Meltdown? I recently finished reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with my daughter. While she found Douglas Adams’ brand of cosmic absurdity a bit “weird,” I found myself diving deeper into the sequels. Specifically, I struck a chord with a scene in The Restaurant at the End Read More …
The Digital Panopticon
How Flock Cameras Are Trading Freedom for a False Sense of Safety Imagine you are living in a house where the walls are made of glass. You go about your day—eating, reading, talking—knowing that at any moment, an invisible neighbor could be taking notes on your every move. This is the world being built by Read More …
Beginner’s Guide to the Active Directory Tier Model
The Lateral Movement Highway If you read one of the latest States of Cybercrime report by Microsoft, one finding stands out above the rest: the leading factor in ransomware incidents is “insufficient privilege access and lateral movement controls.” Just so we are all on page 12 with each other, I am saying that Lateral Movement Read More …
The Necessary Security Model Refactor
The “Cloud First” reality necessitates shifting your mindset from the physical boundaries of ENIAD (Endpoint, Network, Identity, Applications, Data) to the logical boundaries defined by the Cloud Shared Responsibility Model. The things you protect are not just “Data,” but the entire environment that processes, stores, and governs that data. 1. Identity (The Gate) This remains the Read More …
Pragmatic Cloud Networking?
Managing service-to-service communication across multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds has always presented challenges. The complexities of VPC peering, intricate routing tables, and the manual overhead of maintaining security policies. Amazon VPC Lattice can help address some of these issues by providing a unified, managed networking service that streamlines connectivity, security, and observability for applications built Read More …