Costly Risk of Using Unvetted IT Support
What Moneyball Teaches Us About Eliminating Preventable IT Risk “If you don’t know what you’re looking for, you’re not going to find it.” — Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), Moneyball In […]
New Computer Cyberist Best Practices
NOTE: This article discusses general best practices and is not intended for operational instructions. “Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one […]
Rule 2 — Protect Yourself at All Times
“Protect yourself at all times.” — Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), to Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) In Million Dollar Baby, that line isn’t about boxing gloves. It’s about survival. Discipline. Consequences. […]
High Cost Cyberist Evaluation
🎬 Freeze-Frame Moment Ryan Reynolds—bloodied suit, dry humor intact—drags Samuel L. Jackson through a hailstorm of bullets in Hitman’s Bodyguard. Jackson grins, “You said protection!” Reynolds fires back, “I didn’t […]
Rule 1 – Do What I Say
[Scene opens in a dimly lit NCIS interrogation room. Mark Harmon as Gibbs leans in, eyes locked, voice low but firm.] Gibbs: “You don’t break the rules.” Rookie Agent: “What […]
Government Shutdown vs. Cyberist Negotiation
It first clicked for me watching an episode of Yellowstone when Kevin Costner’s character John Dutton said, “Government is just like any other business.” That line may spark fierce debate, […]
Amazon and Microsoft Simultaneous Blackout
“You think you’re in control… until the system decides otherwise.” — Black Warrant Today, the internet blinked … again. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure—two cloud titans that silently power […]
Trademark Enforcement: Protect What You Built
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.” — Ray Kroc There’s a scene in The Founder where Ray Kroc stares across a desolate Illinois highway, milkshake machine […]
AWS Outage Was Massive—Here’s How You Stay Online Next Time
At 3 a.m. Eastern, the Internet blinked. Amazon Web Services (AWS)—one of the world’s largest cloud providers—suffered a catastrophic outage in its US-East-1 region, silencing digital giants like Snapchat, Fortnite, […]