CybersecKyle
CybersecKyle
Kyle
I love everything tech. You can check out more about me on my website. I blog about cybersecurity, technology trends, and best practices in IT. I even share the occasional tech review every now and then.
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It has been a bit since I updated this page, and quite a lot has changed since January. Some of it has been exciting, some of it has been hard, and most of it has happened while I was just trying to keep the normal parts of life...
I added a new /ai page to explain how I do and do not use AI on this site.
Waze is one of those apps that we use without thinking twice about the implications.You open it because traffic is bad, the route looks smarter than whatever your car suggests, and you would rather know about the crash before you are...
OverviewThis week had a very familiar pattern: attackers kept aiming at the places where normal business systems concentrate trust. File-sharing controllers, identity-aware edge appliances, developer platforms, AI workflow tools, CMS...
I am back with Season 3, Part 2 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are making domain email harder to spoof with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, without turning DNS into a self-inflicted...
I am back with Season 3, Part 1 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are treating accounts like assets: inventory them, remove stale access, and stop handing out admin rights like...
The vibeThis was a quieter week overall. Not a whole lot of big updates, and I did not get as much time as I wanted to work on my iPhone or macOS app projects. There was still some World Cup watching, a little Linux tinkering, a family...
At some point, my personal tech stopped feeling like a handful of apps and started feeling like a tiny environment I was responsible for maintaining.There is the password manager. There are passkeys and MFA prompts. There is the backup...
OverviewThis week kept circling the same operational lesson: the boring control planes are where the damage starts. Remote support, SharePoint, phone systems, firewalls, Microsoft 365, developer packages, and AI workflow servers all...
Things have felt heavier than I expected lately, and I have caught myself being more quiet than usual. Not in a dramatic way. Just one of those stretches where my brain feels a little slower to warm up, and the things that usually sound...
I am back with Season 2, Part 6 of the Home Network and Devices track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are doing a privacy tune up that reduces unnecessary exposure without turning your weekend into an audit...
I am back with Season 2, Part 5 of the Home Network and Devices track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are moving toward passwordless sign-in with passkeys and hardware keys without creating a brand-new lockout...
The vibeThis week still felt heavy in a lot of ways. I was not really feeling like myself for part of it, and the stress and anxiety from everything going on has definitely been hanging around. At the same time, I kept trying to move...
OverviewThis week was less about one headline vulnerability and more about the systems we quietly trust: network controllers, voice platforms, PLM tools, firewalls, browser extensions, AI agent skills, proxy infrastructure, remote...
AI can make the recommendation, but it cannot sign the contract, accept the risk, or explain the failure to a regulator.Imagine an AI-powered security platform receives an alert about unusual administrative activity.The system analyzes...