Cloud Security

I’m writing a modern book on cybersecurity for executives ~ one blog post at a time. Here’s a list of the posts I’ve written so far.

Twenty cybersecurity questions executives can ask their security team to uncover problems that could lead to a data breach.

What is a CVE and why is it important? Cybersecurity for Executives.

When encryption at rest won’t come to the rescue.

Can we get rid of passwords too?

Most experienced technical professionals will likely tell you they are contacted by recruiters more than once a month if not once per day…

One of the first techniques I learned for penetration testing was something called Arp Cache Poisoning…

→ Keep the ball away from the attacker.

Do you ever need a public AWS S3 bucket? Not really. How security teams can make sure that never happens.

Getting girls interested in cloud, programming, and security

Thoughts on the Capital One breach by a former Capital One software engineer, team lead, cloud engineer, and security employee

What’s it like to take one of the hardest cybersecurity certifications in the industry — and pass!

Here’s where I start to learn what it’s like to be a woman in tech and to work in Corporate America.

If you think about how breaches occur there is almost always some sort of Internet exposure involved. How many of your systems are exposed?

I mentioned in my post for the AWS Blog that I would explain later why I used an AWS IoT Button for just-in-time access to a VPN…

Protect Your Gold

Give me all your cookies! OK.

Just in case you missed it — I did a blog post for AWS using an AWS IoT Button to open up network access to a VPN. Sometimes people say…

One day a silly little Facebook poll was going around. “How many states have you visited? Airports don’t count.” I wrote down all the…

I am a woman in tech and cybersecurity. At the moment I focus on cloud security. This is my story.

Also — being paid by a large hosting company to go away after reporting a security incident, and other strange events.

Strategies for executives looking for ways to deal with cybersecurity more effectively

Don’t be fooled

Security is principally about managing risk. The more commonly exploited and dangerous ports you have exposed to the Internet…