I keep coming back to the same thought with theMacBook Neo: this might be the first Apple laptop in a long time that actually makes sense for normal school life. Not fantasy school life. Not “my parents bought me a fully loaded MacBook Pro” school life. Real school life. Homework. Google Docs. Research tabs...

Man it feels like it’s been forever since the last race. It was good to watch the practice and sprint qualifying at work. Sshh, don’t tell my boss. LOL.

Created a workflow to quickly post notes on my website!

The part that makes living off the land attacks so dangerous is not that they are magic. It is that they are ordinary. That is the uncomfortable truth. A lot of attacks do not start with some flashy custom malware that screams for attention. They start with a phished credential, an exposed remote access path, an...

I’m back with Part 6 of the Everyday Defense track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we’re locking in backups that actually restore, building a setup that survives ransomware and failure, and walking through how to verify your backups before you ever have to rely on them. Backups are one of those...

Last week I was really sick for most of the week. I was unable to get my weekly notes out for Week 16 so I decided to combine it with Week 17. The vibe A mix of heavy and hopeful. Needed to slow down, reset, and take care of myself, but still found moments that mattered with family and work. Not the kind of...

There is a version of the AI coding conversation that feels way too casual for what is actually at stake. A prompt goes in. A working app comes out. The demo looks clean. The login page loads. The API responds. The build passes. Everyone moves on. That is exactly where I think the trouble starts. “Vibe coding” has...

Cybersecurity has a bad habit of mistaking specialization for maturity. A recent piece at The Hacker News got me thinking about something I see more and more often in real environments: we have more specialized roles, more products, more dashboards, more alerts, and more vendors than ever, yet a lot of teams still...

A lot of zero trust talk still feels stuck at the login screen. Did the user pass MFA? Did the device check in? Did the identity platform approve the session? Good. All of that matters. But I think a lot of teams still treat that moment like the hard part is over, and I just do not think that holds up anymore....

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, more summaries, and more possible issues for already stretched teams to sort...

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 cybersecurity and IT to be honest about something our industry still handles poorly. We...

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 in the middle of it all was a good reminder that even the most productive weeks...