Thoughts

This page displays the recent posts I've published via my Mastodon account @jtrentadams@infosec.exchange.

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Wow... so excited that "Brothergirls", a short film my son worked on, has been invited to show at Cannes! It's a great story that I hope to make into a series someday (with a distinct "Derry Girls" vibe). Hope you enjoy it!!

youtu.be/EFzOpBZTerI?si=E65t4C


Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Well, there's no way this could go wrong... an AI company having carte blanche to train it's models on a heavily alt-right, conspiracy-laden corpus. (Not that they weren't already doing it.)

reuters.com/markets/deals/musk


Fri, 21 Mar 2025

I was just introduced to an amazing new team tradition... a weekly sharing of "Wins" and "Gratitude" that help folks celebrate the goodness at the end of a hard week... What a great way to enter the weekend on a positive note. Thanks, @mttaggart for introducing me to the tradition! :)


Thu, 20 Mar 2025

ATTENTION: Cancer Research Grant Applicants

Apparently, if you include the terms "at risk, belong, bias, breastfeed, female, inclusive, most risk, race, sex, status, systemic, women" in your NIH grant to perform research on (for example) breast cancer... you'll likely be flagged as potentially in violation of the current regime's view of "appropriate nomenclature."

This is wrong... just wrong... on so (so) many levels.

NOTE: I am on the board of a cancer research NCORP. And I'm looking for who to bring this issue to. Suggestions?

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0


Wed, 12 Mar 2025

Well... can't say it was unexpected... but sheesh. IMO, the drop-in-the-bucket savings of $10MM is going to significantly disrupt ISAC coordination activities. :/

therecord.media/cisa-cuts-10-m


Tue, 04 Mar 2025

At first I thought this was just a humorous video making fun of AI assistants talking to each other like R2D2:

youtube.com/watch?v=EtNagNezo8w

... but then I found the GitHub repo with the GibberLink communication protocol code:

github.com/PennyroyalTea/gibbe


Fri, 28 Feb 2025

'Cap, where are you? We need you!


Mon, 24 Feb 2025

Holy insecurity, Batman! I strongly dissuade any US Federal employees from responding to the "what did you do last week" email. Seriously? That's a cRaZy security risk when potential responders don't necessarily understand what they should / shouldn't be sharing with an insecure receiver.


Wed, 12 Feb 2025

... then I realized I could generalize their error page to be more comprehensive. There, fixed it! :)


Wed, 12 Feb 2025

Heh - I just noticed I had a tab open to what was a summary of cybersecurity directives from the previous administration on the Whitehouse.gov site... but is now 404.


Tue, 04 Feb 2025

No surprise to anyone... government cybersecurity folks I know are exploring private sector positions... anyone looking to land experienced hands (analysts to CISOs), hit me up for connections. They're good people caught in a maelstrom.


Mon, 02 Dec 2024

The folks at .Bank published the executive interview they did with me a few months ago... Too bad it's already dated, though, as we've moved on from to . Other than that, it's not bad as my style of speech does seem to have survived the editorial / pr / legal gauntlet. :)

register.bank/media/executive-


Wed, 23 Oct 2024

For those who've been working with ML tech for decades, it's great to see it and its AI cousins hit the main stage (again)... but it also takes a great deal of patience while the general public (and marketing wonks) slowly ramp up to speed.


Mon, 21 Oct 2024

While at the Oktane Identity conference in Las Vegas, I found myself chatting with a US Air Force employee who he told me: "I don't believe in climate change. I'm no scientist, it's just what I believe." ... I nearly cried.


Thu, 19 Sep 2024

I can't help but feel that Proofpoint missed out when enumerating only 5 products in it's Nexus line of cybersecurity defenses... though... perhaps they're still working on Nexus VI.

proofpoint.com/us/blog/email-a


Tue, 06 Aug 2024

Every project starts with a clear idea of the end goal... now it's time to boil the ocean!


Mon, 29 Jul 2024

People frequently call something a "science" when what I think they mean is "engineering". This seems to happen when folks refer to something complicated... but they aren't talking about rigorous testing of a hypothesis.


Fri, 26 Jul 2024

The response to a wellness check of an aged parent being, "Sorry, I was hiking in the mountains and out of cell range," can result in an immediate release of slowly built up tension... too bad you can't bottle that energy for when you need it.