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.
Latest Posts
A lot of AI security tooling sounds impressive right up until you picture using it during a real week of cybersecurity work. That is usually where the shine wears off. Most defenders do not need another system that spits out more alerts,...
In cybersecurity and IT, stress gets normalized way too easily. That does not make it healthy, and it definitely does not make it sustainable. April is Stress Awareness Month, and I think that is a good excuse for those of us in...
I went full speed ahead this week. The vibe Builder mode from start to finish. This week felt like creative momentum, shipping things I am genuinely proud of, and seeing several ideas finally become real. At the same time, getting sick...
There is a version of the AI conversation in managed services that already feels worn out. It is the version where every vendor demo implies the future MSP is almost autonomous, every workflow is one prompt away from solving itself, and...
When I first shared my Catppuccin Mastodon theme, it was a pretty personal project. I wanted Mastodon’s web UI to feel more comfortable for me, more intentional, and more in line with the kind of design language I already liked. That...
A friend on Mastodon, CJ Errington, put this story on my radar after Neowin reported that Microsoft had pulled the developer accounts tied to WireGuard and VeraCrypt. The headline is attention-grabbing on its own, but the part that...
I have been wanting to build a starter theme for a while that feels more like the kind of web I actually enjoy using. Not sterile. Not overly polished. Not trying to look like every SaaS landing page on the internet. That idea turned...
Lately I have been spending a lot of time thinking about how to build something a little bigger around the work I already do here. I have my regular blog posts. I have my CybersecKyle Security How-To series that I am actively working on....
I spent some time recently rebuilding my sponsorship and membership pages across GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, and Buy Me a Coffee. On the surface, that probably looks like a small housekeeping task. Update some wording. Clean up some old...
One of the biggest mistakes I see in small business IT and even in some larger environments is that routers are still treated like background equipment. I have been circling this theme for a while in posts like The FCC’s Router Crackdown...
I am happy to share a new open source project I have been working on: @kylereddoch/eleventy-plugin-mastodon-share. You can browse the source on GitHub and try the live demo. It is a small Eleventy plugin that makes it easier for people...
Coming in a day late with this one again but it is for a good reason. I was busy launching my new design yesterday. The vibe This week felt grounded in the best way. There was a lot of energy poured into launching my new blog design, but...
If you are coming here to read this post, you probably notice that CybersecKyle looks a little different now. Actually, a lot different. I finally launched a redesign that has been bouncing around in my head for a while, and I wanted to...
I spent some time reading the 2026 Cyber Protect Report, and the biggest thing that stuck with me was not AI, nation-state actors, or some brand-new attack technique. It was the reminder that most organizations are still getting burned...
The tension I keep coming back to I recently read Joel’s post, “Unpolished human websites”, and it hit on something I think a lot of us who care about the independent web have felt for a while now. He is not wrong. Part of what makes...