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Cybersecurity

A collection of 17 issues

The Heartbreaking Reality that is Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a very different beast from software engineering. If you just write some code to solve a problem, it's almost guaranteed to be insecure. Adding security always costs time and money. Where does that leave us? Heartbroken, that's where.

If Generative AI Speeds up Programming, Will We Have More Time to Spend on Cybersecurity? Magic 8 Ball Says...

If we can use GenAI to speed up and drastically change the way we deal with code and get days, if not weeks, of time back in the process, would we...could we...use that time to implement more cybersecurity?

We Are Software Masters of the Universe...Aren’t We?

In science fiction books and movies, humanity's greatest weapon is often the computer virus. In these works, our greatest gift is the ability to program. And yet, in the real world, we are riddled with software bugs and massive insecurity.

The Day the Computers Turned Blue. (This Issue Is Not the Result of or Related to a Cyberattack. We Did It to Ourselves.)

As the only thing in the universe that writes software, we are the best at it. But is what we write any good? Do we make poor software? And is it just because it's cheaper?

Programming for People Who Don't Program Good

Most software companies need to solve problems of a certain size in order to find the right return on investment. But what about all the other smaller problems we deal with? The thousands of paper cuts we endure daily? Can GenAI help MORE people solve SMALLER problems with software?

Welcome to the TCA: The Total Cloud Abstraction

Computers should be more secure and easier to use. While the public cloud has many benefits, it also adds complexity. What if we used a cloud account differently... what if we entered the TOTAL CLOUD ABSTRACTION zone!

Is Software Regulation Coming?

We know that software is full of security holes. That's the way it works: it costs more to write secure software. But we also know that some key industries, like finance, are heavily regulated, and it is effective. Regulation seems to make finance healthier. Could software be next?

Can Large Language Models Hack? Part 1

There is a wide range of ideas about what GenAI might be capable of. There are many questions we have about what it can do. One that has come up recently is whether GenAI is capable of malicious attacks on software. In short, can it "hack?"

More on the Attack Hypersurface. Cloud Estates Can Only Be Understood With Modelling. And Just Look at All the SKUs.

In a previous article I started to discuss the idea of how infrastructure technology has evolved into having an "attack hypersurface," not just a normal sized, regular old attack surface, but something more than that...something almost unknowable.

Surivorship Bias & the Nation State Long Con. The Number of Software Backdoors Is Not Zero. We Are a Techno-Society That Depends on Open Source Software.

The open source software movement is one of the most interesting things to happen in recent human history. We are a techno-society that depends on open source software, so what happens when nation states go after the basic human frailty of OSS maintainers?