Month: March 2022
Building Security Together: A Hack the Port 2022 Review

Building Security Together: A Hack the Port 2022 Review

Last week, I had the honor of being a part of the Hack the Port conference in Fort Lauderdale. We heard from national leaders including Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and...

Goodbye, PayPal.

Goodbye, PayPal.

After twenty years, I deleted my PayPal account last Monday morning. You’ve heard my thoughts on user responsibility as it relates to Zelle fraud. But the reality is that responsibility is a two-way street. Even though we are responsible for ensuring that who we send...

Fight the Epidemic: Burnout in Cybersecurity

Fight the Epidemic: Burnout in Cybersecurity

“71% of [security] analysts experience some level of burnout” and, “64% say they’re likely to switch jobs in the next year.”[1] I love this industry, and it pains me to see statistics like this, even assuming massive bias in the data. While the “security analyst” role...

Learning Cybersecurity Beyond Technical Skill

Learning Cybersecurity Beyond Technical Skill

We all remember sitting through classes because we had to; it didn’t matter if we respected our instructors, if we would ever need to know this again, or if we thought they knew what they were talking about. The only thing that mattered was getting through the class,...