Satire The Sky Is Falling: Confessions of a Reformed Cyber Cassandra I've been practicing increased cybersecurity for a few weeks now. Not the NIST 800-171 kind. The kind I picked up watching our newest cyber hires operate — a stance, a vocabulary, a very particular energy. This week I tried it myself: I walked the facility declaring, that the
The Staff The Staff: An Origin Story, Back When Our Only Threat Model Was the Printer The first in a series about an IT department that did not ask for any of this. We were the Staff before anyone capitalized it. Just the people you called when something stopped working, which in practice meant we were also the people you called when something had never worked,
Humorous The Network Guy's Field Guide to Things That Used to Work A love letter to ISDN, bonded T1s, and every cable I have ever trusted with my career Somewhere in a landfill there is a bonded ISDN line I personally installed, and it is still, in some spiritual sense, faster than the guest Wi-Fi at a Marriott. This is not
Serious The 60-Day Pause Might Be the Last Chance to Save the DIB I applaud the 60-day pause. I don't say that lightly, and I don't say it as someone who thinks CUI shouldn't be protected. I say it because I sat in a room with our executives during a mock C3PAO assessment, and I watched
Humorous So a 900-Megawatt Robot Wants to Move to Your County: A Pros and Cons List Somewhere in Central Georgia, on a few hundred acres of pine timberland that used to just sit there being pine timberland, a data center wants to move in. This time it happened to be Twiggs County — a company called Eagle Rock Partners pitching something called Pine Ridge Tech Park — but
Edgy The Great CMMC Pause: 60 Days to Decide If Uncle Sam Still Wants the Keys to Your Network date: 2026-08-12 So here's the plot twist nobody in the defense contracting world saw coming: after years of everyone frantically SSP-ing, POA&M-ing, and hiring consultants at $300/hour to get "CMMC ready," the Pentagon looked at CMMC Phase 2 — due to kick in November
