May 2024
- Building Effective Roadmaps through Mission, Vision, and Strategy Alignment
Creating a cohesive and effective roadmap requires more than just a list of tasks and deadlines; it requires a clear mission, vision, and strategy that aligns the entire organization. This alignment ensures that every…
- Transitioning from Reactive to Proactive
Building Effective, Evidence-Based Roadmaps for Business Success
- Automating Non-Human Identities: The Future of Production Key Management
Historically, key management was seen as activities involving hardware security modules (HSMs), manual tasks, and audits. This approach was part of what we termed 'responsible key management.’ However, HSMs were…
- Rethinking Security in Complex Systems
Over the last few decades, we seem to have gotten better at the micro aspects of security, such as formally verifying protocols and designing cryptographic algorithms, but have worsened, or at least failed to keep up at…
- Navigating Security and Innovation
I started my career at Microsoft in the 90s, initially working on obscure third-party networking issues, printing, and later Internet Explorer. Back then, even though I had gotten into computers through what today would…
- The Rebirth of Network Access Protection with Microsoft's Zero Trust DNS
The other day Microsoft announced something it calls Zero Trust DNS. At a high level, it is leveraging clients' underlying name resolution capabilities to establish and enforce security controls below the application.