Automating DigiCert Certificate Issuance

I am a big fan of DigiCert for TLS Certificates and CA/WebPKI services.   While they have amazing customer support and are an amazing company to work with, there are not a lot of automation scripts to interact with their API available. So over the weekend and with a lot of help from Clint Wilson I built a … Read more

Leadership Quotes From My Mentors Dad

An amazing mentor and leader I work with has been talking to me recently about what real leadership looks like and shared with me a list of quotes he keeps on his desk that his dad who had a leadership role in the military collected and gave to him.  He gave me a copy and said … Read more

A Threat Intelligence Thought Exercise

I was at dinner on Tuesday with 6 security professionals and I proposed this hypothetical situation and I thought it was worth writing up and sharing. Background: Six identical safes with $1,000,000 inside are being built into the side of a public building and are being randomly assigned to everyone at the dinner. At the … Read more

Digital Ocean Slack Bot

I had a coach whose favorite quote was “Pain is the best teacher.”  and that was the first thing that popped into my head this morning when I realized that I had left an $80 a month  Digital Ocean Droplet  running for an extra 3 weeks after I got done using it.   To be honest $60 … Read more

8 Security Predictions for 2017

  What will 2017 hold for the security industry?    I sat down and looked into my crystal ball and came up with these 8 security predictions for 2017.  A Fortune 500 Will Use “DDOS as a Service” To Attack A Competitor. A bored VP of Marketing with a paypal account, a six pack and … Read more