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Diggers Are Always Ahead of the Fillers. Cybersecurity
September 22, 2026 2 MIN READ

Diggers Are Always Ahead of the Fillers.

I heard this phrase today, and my cybersecurity brain immediately went somewhere else with it. In cybersecurity, the diggers are almost always ahead of the fillers. Someone discovers a vulnerability before there is a patch. Someone develops a new attack technique before there is a detection rule. Someone finds a way...

Could Zero Trust survive the Borg? Cybersecurity
January 11, 2026 1 MIN READ

Could Zero Trust survive the Borg?

I have a fun cybersecurity thought experiment: Could Zero Trust survive the Borg? Think about the Borg from Star Trek, or any future where humans somehow share knowledge collectively. Everyone knows what everyone else knows. Your password? Known. Your PIN? Known. Your favorite food? Known. Your mother's maiden name?...

When IT Problems Stop Being Obvious: The Hidden Cost of Complexity Cybersecurity
October 06, 2025 2 MIN READ

When IT Problems Stop Being Obvious: The Hidden Cost of Complexity

There’s a growing reality in IT that we don’t talk about enough. The hardest part of troubleshooting today isn’t fixing the problem. It’s figuring out where the problem actually lives. Hybrid environments have changed everything. On prem systems. Cloud workloads. SaaS platforms. VPN tunnels. Identity providers...