Category: Leadership and Worklife
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Cyber incidents love bad timing. They don’t wait for daylight or coffee. They strike when everyone’s offline and your alert inbox is blissfully quiet, right before it ruins your morning. That’s precisely how this one started. The 3:00 A.M. Surprise At dawn, the 24/7 SOC logged a new alert:“Possible Compromised Account (High Severity).” By 9:00…
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The past month blurred into a cycle of offshore trips between the SWP platform and the Noble Viking drill ship, ending with a return to SWP once more. After three rotations in such quick succession, I started to feel like my bag never left half-packed mode. The Rhythm of Two Offshore Worlds Each site carried…
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When I started in IT, cybersecurity wasn’t the hot topic it is today. It was a small part of the job – patch a server here, check the firewall there. I never imagined it would become my career’s main battlefield. Everything changed one day when our network faced its first major incident. I can still…
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I often thought that IT leadership feels a lot like being part of a college fraternity. You have to herd people who don’t want to be herded, organize projects that look impossible, and somehow keep the lights on when chaos erupts. My years in Alpha Phi Omega (APO) gave me more preparation for IT and…