Posts
All the articles I've posted.
Lost in the Vendor Hall: Tales from a Cybersecurity Conference
Published:Step into the world of cybersecurity conferences, where serious talks collide with eccentric hackers, endless badges, and hallway wisdom. It's a chaotic, funny, and surprisingly insightful ride through keynotes, CTFs, and the people who make the community unforgettable.
The New Hacker Summer
Published:AI-assisted development is dramatically accelerating software creation, but in doing so it is reintroducing classic security flaws the industry already learned to mitigate. Code may be cheap and instant, but security, architectural integrity, and engineering judgment still require deliberate human oversight.
Reverse Peter Principle
Published:Leadership shapes cybersecurity outcomes. The “Reverse Peter Principle” occurs when leaders lack the technical grounding to support their teams, leading to misaligned priorities, wasted tools, and slower incident response. This post explores the problem and offers practical strategies to ensure leadership empowers experts rather than undermines them.
Why Building the Best Team Requires Both Code and Charter
Published:This post explores the tension between wanting to drive improvements purely through good work and collaboration versus the reality that organizational change often requires formal authority. Drawing on team dysfunction theory and concepts like psychological safety, it shows why influence and data can take you far — but why roles, mandates, and authority sometimes become the necessary tools to push meaningful change.
The Self-Hosting Paradox
Published:Self-hosting is a thrilling rabbit hole. There’s a special satisfaction in spinning up your own services, shedding your reliance on SaaS giants, and taking control of your data. But once you’ve taken the red pill and peeked behind the curtain of “self-hosted alternatives,” you quickly encounter the darker side of freedom: too many options.
A Cyber Tale of Change Resistance
Published:Cybersecurity teams thrive on staying ahead of threats—but often struggle when it comes to evolving their own internal practices. This post explores why change is so difficult in security culture, especially when it comes from outside the team, and how silos, ego, and comfort with the status quo can quietly hold us back.