The world’s biggest surveillance company you’ve never heard of — Zeyi Yang, MIT Technology Review, 6/22/2022 Very interesting article on the possibility of the United States placing Chinese-based surveillance company Hikvision on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List. …

I have a lot of literary classics on my shelves. Too often, however, I get caught up in reading the latest and greatest in modern literature to take a step back and enjoy something timeless. So it was with great interest that I dove into two collections of Fyodor Dostoyevsky…

Building a Regional, Right of Boom Cyber Defense Network — GRAHAM KENNIS AND LAUREN ZABIEREK, War on The Rocks, 6/7/2022 The field of cyber security is huge. On one hand, we have programmers, coders, and network admins — folks who get their hands dirty with the 1s and 0s. Then…

This is what Elon Musk did the day he bought Twitter. It’s an amazing lesson in productivity — Justin Bariso, Fast Company, 4/29/2022 Life as a billionaire CEO must be interesting. Especially if you own multiple businesses. Those businesses all have projects which can gain or lose money. …

In the late 1990s, I had a 1960’s counterculture phase. I think a lot of ‘90’s Gen-Xers had a Jim Morrison phase — mostly spawned by Morrison disciples Eddie Vedder or Scott Stapp — but I took mine a little deeper. After I discovered The Doors were named after Aldous…

Stop me if you have heard this before: “They were thinking about the curriculum and the role of the Army in the (date), and the really serious threats: the Soviet Union and China, and the international conspiracy” (pg 19) “Technology has changed and will continue to change the perspective. The…

I realized that I have not discussed my debut novel’s audiobook on this blog. I am a big fan of this audiobook. Narrator Torian Brackett did an amazing job. Buy it here: Curveball at the Crossroads Audiobook (Audible) Preview: A few months ago, I did an interview with Torian…

Lessons in Communicating Cyber Risk to the Board and Business Leaders — ThreatConnect Blog, 5/25/2022 Let’s talk about CFOs and Cyber Risk — ThreatConnect Blog, 1/25/2022 ThreatConnect’s blog is a great source for posts on building and integrating cyber threat intelligence into corporate structure. …