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Your Employees Aren’t the Weakest Link… Your Training Program Is.
For years, cybersecurity has repeated the same tired phrase, “Employees are the weakest link.” I don’t agree… and after decades in IT, security operations, and executive leadership, I’d argue that statement is not only wrong, it’s damaging. Employees aren’t the weakest link. Outdated, checkbox-style security training is. The Myth of the “Human Problem” Most organizations…
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CES 2026. The Year AI Became an Operating Model, Not a Strategy.
For the past several years, CES has been a showcase of promise–> Bigger models, smarter demos, faster chips, and even louder claims. CES 2026 seemed different. This was the year artificial intelligence stopped being discussed as a future capability and started showing up as an operating reality. You didn’t see many pilots, proofs of concept,…
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Garbage In, Slop Out… Why AI Slop Is a Trust Crisis (and a Security Problem)
Proceed with caution. Source of truth unknown. For decades, technologists lived by a simple rule… Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO). If your inputs are messy, biased, incomplete, or wrong, your outputs will be too. Generative AI didn’t retire that rule. It industrialized it. We’re now living in the era of Garbage In, Slop Out, where…
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When Your SLA Depends on Everyone Else
We still talk about five nines as if uptime exists in a vacuum. In reality, modern services depend on carriers, clouds, APIs, SaaS platforms, security vendors, certificate authorities, and upstream providers that sit entirely outside our direct control, yet customers still expect a single, accountable outcome. When something breaks, the SLA doesn’t fail quietly. Trust…
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Keep Your Friends Close… But ‘Their’ Enemies Closer? When the Defenders Become the Threat.
Over the past several weeks, I’ve found myself reflecting on a situation that underscored an uncomfortable truth about modern cybersecurity, one that isn’t often discussed openly. It wasn’t driven by a headline or a theoretical risk model, but by a real-world scenario that reinforced how much implicit trust we place in those with privileged access,…
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The Hidden Gifts and Surprises of IT Due Diligence in Acquisitions
Acquisitions tend to arrive wrapped in optimism. Growth. Synergy. Opportunity. New markets. New capabilities. On paper, everything looks clean and exciting, especially during end-of-year conversations when leadership is already in a forward-looking mindset. But anyone who has been through an acquisition from the IT or security side knows the truth… the real story doesn’t begin…
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A Season of Gratitude, Collaboration, and Community
As the year comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to all who celebrate in their own ways, and a happy, healthy, and successful New Year ahead. This time of year naturally invites reflection, and when I look back on the past year,…
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Perspective… the Invisible Architecture of Everything. (And Why AI Is Forcing Us to Confront It)
Something I’ve been thinking about for a long time now is how everything, and I truly mean everything, is shaped by perspective. How we look at people. How we interpret news, politics, money, success, and failure. How we respond to authority, uncertainty, risk, and change. None of it is neutral. Perspective is the invisible architecture…
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Telco Reinvention… Why Real Transformation Starts With Leadership, Not Technology
For more than a decade, the telecommunications industry has been talking about reinvention. Cloud adoption, SD-WAN, AI-driven operations, enhanced observability, and expanded security portfolios have all been positioned as transformative milestones. Yet for many enterprises, the day-to-day experience tells a different story. Outages still occur. Incident response often feels reactive. Accountability can become blurred across…
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Preparing for 2026… Cybersecurity, AI Acceleration, and the Cost of Uncertainty.
As we close out 2025, it’s clear that the conversation around technology has shifted. This is no longer just about adoption or innovation. It’s about control, trust, and execution. Artificial Intelligence didn’t arrive gradually. It exploded. And while the benefits are real –> productivity gains, improved forecasting, faster analysis… the speed of adoption has outpaced…