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Insights and perspectives on technology, cybersecurity, leadership, artificial intelligence, and the evolving digital world.
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Security Theater Is Over and Leadership Has Finally Entered the Chat
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This week, Jeppesen ForeFlight announced the appointment of Ron Wood as Chief Information Security Officer. On the surface, it seems a standard leadership move, one more CISO appointment in a sea of cybersecurity headlines. But beneath that headline, I see something much more important. A signal that cybersecurity leadership is no longer just about defense,…
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NTLM Is Finally Being Put Out to Pasture… (Took Long Enough)
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For years, NTLM has been that one piece of technical debt everyone knew was dangerous… but no one wanted to touch. It wasn’t secure, it wasn’t modern, but hey… It was convenient. And now, FINALLY, Microsoft is done pretending otherwise. Microsoft has announced a three-phase plan to disable NTLM by default and move Windows environments…
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From HD Doppler to “AI-Powered”… A Brief History of Slapping Buzzwords on Everything
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There’s a strange phenomenon in technology that happens every time a new shiny thing enters the chat. Not a breakthrough. Not a paradigm shift. Just… a word. Once that word gains momentum, it spreads faster than ransomware through an unpatched RDP server. Suddenly, everything, and I mean everything, is powered by it. Yep…..we’ve been here…
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The ‘Boring Stuff’ Is Still Breaking Companies
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It’s interesting that most security incidents don’t start with elite hackers, zero-days, or nation-state tooling. They start with something boring. Such as something forgotten, something “temporary”, or something that worked fine for years, until it didn’t. While captivating headlines focus on sophisticated attacks, I believe the reality inside most organizations is far less cinematic. The…
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When Prices Became Spreadsheets… How Itemized Fees Quietly Replaced Honesty
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There was a time when a price meant something. You bought a concert ticket to see the artist. You paid your cable bill to get cable. You didn’t need an accounting degree to understand what you were being charged, or why. Somewhere along the way, prices didn’t go up, they fractured. Instead of saying, “This…
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The Eyes of the Storm… Where Preparation Shows
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By the time snow starts falling, it’s already too late to prepare. As a major winter storm blankets much of the eastern United States, most households are doing the usual ritual… stocking supplies, charging devices, and checking generators. Inside organizations, something very different happens. This is the moment when IT Directors, CISOs, and operations leaders…
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Cybersecurity Is Now a Fiduciary Responsibility
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For decades, cybersecurity was framed as a technical discipline. Firewalls, patching, access controls, incident response. Important, but largely operational. That perspective no longer reflects reality, especially for financial institutions with long-term obligations to their clients and beneficiaries. Today, cybersecurity is inseparable from fiduciary responsibility. Fiduciary duty is fundamentally about trust in safeguarding assets, protecting sensitive…
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When Cloud Strategy Becomes a Physical Risk Problem
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For years, organizations treated IT security and operational technology (OT) as separate domains. Different teams, different tools, different risk models. That separation used to make sense. Until cloud adoption quietly erased it. What many leadership teams still underestimate is cloud strategy is no longer just an IT decision, it is now directly tied to physical…
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Financial Trust is a Security Control… Lessons from the CIRO Incident (and Canada’s Biggest Breach)
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This week, Canada’s investment industry reminded us that cybersecurity risk doesn’t stop at the perimeter of banks and brokerages… it extends to the institutions that regulate them. On January 14, 2026, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) confirmed that a sophisticated phishing attack initially disclosed in August 2025 ultimately impacted approximately 750,000 Canadian investors. CIRO…
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A New Quantum State of Matter… And Why I Believe This Discovery Actually Matters
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For decades, physicists have understood matter through familiar states… solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and later through more exotic quantum phases like Bose-Einstein condensates and topological insulators. But in early 2026, researchers reported the discovery of an entirely new quantum state of matter. One that doesn’t neatly fit into any existing category and may fundamentally change…
