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Your IT Operations Should Be Your Cybersecurity

Posted on May 18, 2025July 15, 2025 by Dave Brock

Why Integrating Cybersecurity Into IT Operations Is the Most Practical Path to Resilience A few years ago, an urgent ticket came across the Third-Party Risk Review queue. A team had rolled out a new SaaS tool without a security review—again. Access logs were disorganized, user provisioning was manual, and the system had already been populated…

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Stopping an AWS Attack in Real Time – Walking through an Incident

Posted on December 15, 2024February 25, 2025 by Dave Brock

It started with a simple alert that would be easily overlooked—a sudden, unexpected spike in API activity from an IAM role that should have been dormant. No alarms were blaring (yet), and no critical systems had failed, but something felt… off. This is where instincts kick in. This is how a routine security review turned…

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Becoming a Clear Communicator

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dave Brock

I am an engineer by nature. I am technical down to my soul. My heart is not a fleshy pump but a contraption of gears and levers. My curiosity and need to understand the inner workings of all systems (and then how they can be broken), is the engine of how I work. It’s important…

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