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Fixer. Conference speaker. Fintech CSO. Former NYPD Intelligence. Co-author Cyber Crime Primer (Cognella, 2023); co-host Tech Debt Burndown

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Lose Weight Now. Well, Lose Weight In Six Months. Well, Lose Weight Over Six Months.

Mar 20, 2021
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Shooting For The Stars? Jump in to the Deep End of the Pool

Feb 27, 2021
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Zero-Factor Authentication: Owning Our Data

Feb 19, 2020
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How Identity Theft Monitoring Sites Endanger Your Identity

Aug 11, 2018
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The Limits of Influence

Aug 1, 2018
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How Much Are Reserve Officers Worth?

Jul 31, 2018
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Your cell phone number is more important and less secure than your Twitter password

Jul 27, 2018
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Unsung Heroes

Jul 24, 2018
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Breaking Single Points of Failure

Jul 16, 2018
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Coordinate This: Being Polite To Bad Companies Abets Bad Security

Jul 13, 2018
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GDPR is Upon Us

Jul 12, 2018
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Socks in the Pool

Jul 12, 2018
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Yes, Virginia, You Agreed To Let Facebook Have All Your Data…

Apr 7, 2018
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The Insatiable Gluttony of Weight Watchers

Apr 7, 2018
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Do You Make Users Rotate Passwords? Well, Cut It Out.

Apr 2, 2018
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Why I’m Back At Medium

Mar 30, 2018
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We can police mentally ill homeless people with empathy, not jail

Nov 2, 2017
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Addressing the gun-violence problem starts with data collection and analysis

Oct 4, 2017
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Texas' newly signed Sandra Bland Act sets example for rest of the nation

Jun 16, 2017
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Op-Ed: The real crisis isn’t the intelligence we leak, it’s what we don’t share

May 31, 2017
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Lose Weight Now. Well, Lose Weight In Six Months. Well, Lose Weight Over Six Months.

I wrote this article on LinkedIn in January, 2020. I’ve updated it here in March, 2021. In 2019, I...

Mar 20, 2021
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Shooting For The Stars? Jump in to the Deep End of the Pool

In my last job, I struck up a conversation with the guy tasked with provisioning my mobile phone...

Feb 27, 2021
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Zero-Factor Authentication: Owning Our Data

Are you asking the right questions to determine how well your vendors will protect your data?...

Feb 19, 2020
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How Identity Theft Monitoring Sites Endanger Your Identity

It’s no secret that data breaches have become so common that people tend to think, “Oh, another...

Aug 11, 2018
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The Limits of Influence

A human resources guy I respect said something today that really hit home: when you’re discussing...

Aug 1, 2018
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How Much Are Reserve Officers Worth?

A few months ago, Ben Singleton and I wrote a piece that focused on the role of reserve officers....

Jul 31, 2018
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Your cell phone number is more important and less secure than your Twitter password

It's shockingly easy for hackers to hijack your digital life using phone numbers. The public should...

Jul 27, 2018
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Unsung Heroes

A few times a year, we’ll hear on the local news the story of some cop who takes it upon himself,...

Jul 24, 2018
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Breaking Single Points of Failure

Once, I was involved in an effort to break some bad habits. Among them, there had developed a...

Jul 16, 2018
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Coordinate This: Being Polite To Bad Companies Abets Bad Security

The information security community is collectively and justifiedly furious over the revelations by...

Jul 13, 2018
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GDPR is Upon Us

You may have noticed a mountain of spam over the past month, telling you in breathless terms how...

Jul 12, 2018
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Socks in the Pool

When I see things like someone calling the cops because a black man is wearing socks in a swimming...

Jul 12, 2018
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Yes, Virginia, You Agreed To Let Facebook Have All Your Data…

Facebook’s business model is to sell information about you to advertisers, and that is how they...

Apr 7, 2018
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The Insatiable Gluttony of Weight Watchers

As I watch the world having conniption fits over Facebook “privacy,” and discussions on the...

Apr 7, 2018
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Do You Make Users Rotate Passwords? Well, Cut It Out.

I’ve been arguing for years that we in information security aren’t doing anyone any favors when we...

Apr 2, 2018
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Why I’m Back At Medium

…not leaving. The best reason for not just deleting my Medium account is that about 1000 of you...

Mar 30, 2018
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We can police mentally ill homeless people with empathy, not jail

"I don't have ID," Floyd is saying, "they won't let me into the shelter without ID." Welcome to a...

Nov 2, 2017
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Addressing the gun-violence problem starts with data collection and analysis

As our nation reels from another mass shooting, the same conversation is being repeated:...

Oct 4, 2017
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Texas' newly signed Sandra Bland Act sets example for rest of the nation

Opinion contributors On Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the state's Sandra Bland Act, named...

Jun 16, 2017
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Op-Ed: The real crisis isn’t the intelligence we leak, it’s what we don’t share

(Associated Press) Everyone in the security world is worried about leaking. Last week, for...

May 31, 2017
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