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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Recent headlines suggest that Matthew McConaughey is “taking on AI” by trademarking himself, including his voice, likeness, and famous catchphrases like “Alright, alright, alright.” It’s a compelling narrative. It’s also not quite accurate… What McConaughey is doing is far more…
Why I Believe Most People Underestimate the Curve, and Why That Matters I’m often asked a deceptively simple question… “Jim, how fast do you believe AI is actually advancing?” It’s usually asked with genuine curiosity… sometimes excitement, sometimes skepticism, and…
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…
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…