The world of software engineering is the culmination of efforts — teams assembling new works, improving old works, leveraging the byproducts of other teams, internally and externally to the business. …

In my prior article, I encourage leadership at tech companies to adopt an official policy for permitting vulnerability research internally. The focus of this post is to discuss the mindset a team needs to get themselves into when engaging in pentesting. One of the first things I hear when talking…

In the parlance of the Intelligence Community (IC), there exists the concept of a “Red Team” — an oppositional yet internal force which has the sole purpose of finding weaknesses, in order to assess risk and improve effectiveness at handling risk. In the corporate world, this term is more narrow…

In Part 0, I cover the justifications behind building a custom cellphone. In short, security cannot be guaranteed in the current offerings. I picked Rust as a language due to it being able to still work well at a low level, but has a more concise (read: fewer bugs) syntax…

If you were to ask the entirety of people who know me what is one attribute that stands out about myself, they will say that, without a shadow of a doubt, I am the most paranoid person they know — and for good reason. Since I can remember using a…