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The Algorithmic Shadow Economy: How AI Models Are Being Traded Like Weapons, Now With More Existential Dread
A look inside the underground trade of AI models where algorithms move like weapons, rules don’t apply, and intelligence itself is the newest form of contraband.
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Cyber Hiring: Too Much Theater, Not Enough Practice
This post breaks down what’s not working in cyber hiring and offers a few ideas that actually might.
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The Anti-Pattern Zoo of LLM Security Architectures
This post breaks down 6+ LLM architectural anti-patterns
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Unlicensed, Undertrained, and in Charge: How We Broke Cybersecurity
Why we must replace cybersecurity’s culture of tools and titles with discipline, accountability, and professional licensing before the next breach cripples critical systems.
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Why Cyber Risk Communication Keeps Failing at the Board Level
Cyber risk reporting is failing because CISO’s are working with incomplete data, inconsistent frameworks, and unrealistic expectations
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You Don’t Need a Deputy CISO, You Need a Real One
How the Deputy CISO role has become cybersecurity’s most quietly exploited position
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Tools, Talkers, and Total Failure: What’s Killing Cybersecurity
We’ve built a cybersecurity culture that glamorizes vision and ignores execution.
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What’s the Next Iteration of Cyberattacks Could Look Like
A speculative outlook on evolving cyber threats.
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Beneath the Prompt: When Privacy Ends and Profiling Begins
Exploring hidden layers of AI profiling and its implications.
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Whispers and Firewalls: The New AI Warfront
A critical look at AI-driven cyber conflict and geopolitical risk.
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AI Civil War: The Uninsured Risk of Autonomous Model Conflict
The looming risk of unregulated model warfare.
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Cybersecurity Isn’t Just About Tech—It’s About Mindset, Psychology, and Strategy
A call for a behavioral and strategic approach to defense.
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Talks & Conference Panels
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Talent Gap Fireside Chat |
In this episode, Ankush Chowdhary unpacks why cybersecurity hiring is failing—not because of a talent gap, but because of broken systems, gatekeeping, and performative leadership.
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Tariffs. Geopolitics. Supply Chain Disruption. |
Panel on global events and cyber risk. |
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Bloomberg Tech San Francisco 2025 |
Invited panel on innovation and AI infrastructure. |
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Threat Detection Using Artificial Intelligence |
Deep dive into AI/ML for anomaly detection. |
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AWS Governance at Scale |
Best practices for scalable cloud governance. |
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DevSecOps in the Public Sector (AWS re:Invent) |
Securing the software supply chain in government. |
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Well-Architected for Security (Advanced Session) |
Techniques for hardened cloud-native workloads. |
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Achieving Continuous Compliance using AWS |
How to build automated compliance on AWS |
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Intelligent Threat Detection in AWS Coud |
How to use AWS GuardDuty for Threat Detection, AWS Summit Mumbai |
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