Insights & Perspectives
Field notes from real projects: what worked, what broke, and what I'd do differently.
Digital transformation starts behind the website
A small Caribbean firm's website rebuild was presented as a digital transformation. The storefront was real work. Calling it transformation decides what gets funded next.
Read ArticleOwning a cybersecurity program end to end in a regulated industry
NIST's framework states outcomes and leaves methods open, the New York State Department of Financial Services keeps revising its expectations, and the SEC gives public companies four business days to disclose a cybersecurity incident once they determine it is material. One person, the CISO, has to own all of it.
Read ArticleHow to approach a CrowdStrike Falcon rollout
The agent installs in minutes. The weeks in a Falcon rollout go into deciding how aggressively it acts, on which machines and in what order, and the July 2024 outage showed which of those controls the customer never held.
Read ArticleWhat Network Engineers Need to Know About AI and LLMs
I use these tools every day in network work. Here is what earns its place in the workflow, where it quietly gets things wrong, and what I will not paste into a public model.
Read ArticleGovernment Data Center Core Network Modernization
How a full core network redesign replaced end-of-life switches, transformed performance, and built a foundation for digital transformation.
Read ArticleUnifying Tech Strategy in a Multi-Opco Environment
Three years inside a four-market group taught me why subsidiary strategies drift apart, why mandates from the centre fail, and what actually pulls markets together.
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