Writing
Writing
Long-form essays on resilience, architecture, and executive decision-making under stress, with the external publications and the two newsletters that sit alongside them.
Recommended reading
Start with these three, in order.
A short, intentional path into the core of this body of work.
Evidence of Resilience
Why continuity must now be demonstrated rather than assumed by boards, regulators, and executives.
Operational Resilience Is Becoming the Global Regulatory Baseline
How market failures exposed fragility, and how regulators are codifying resilience worldwide.
Incentives, Behavior, and the Architecture of Change
Why misaligned incentives quietly undermine resilience, and how leaders correct course.
The through-line
Boards are being asked for evidence that critical services hold, and a program can be mature on paper and still unable to produce it.
The essays approach that gap from different angles: architecture, incentives, identity, supervision, and the record itself.
Everything else
Everything else, newest first.
The rest of the essays, titles and dates only. New ones appear here on their own. Subscribe by RSS →
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AI Increases the Need for Resilience, Not Automation Alone
Read the essay →: AI Increases the Need for Resilience, Not Automation AloneArtificial intelligence does not simply automate work. It changes how systems behave under stress, and it amplifies weaknesses that were previously masked by time, discretion, and human buffering.…
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When Assumptions Fail: Architecture and the Reality of Resilience
Read the essay →: When Assumptions Fail: Architecture and the Reality of ResilienceResilience does not fail gradually. It fails when long-held assumptions collide with reality, exposing how systems actually behave under stress. This essay explores why architecture, dependency awareness, and…
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Identity as a Control Plane: The Successor to Zero Trust and the Architecture of Continuity
Read the essay →: Identity as a Control Plane: The Successor to Zero Trust and the Architecture of ContinuityIdentity has become the control plane of modern enterprises. This essay explains why identity security now determines trust, resilience, and systemic failure in complex environments.
Forbes Technology Council
Written for the Forbes Technology Council, 2023 to 2026.
Five pieces on identity, cloud architecture, board governance, and CISO leadership. The arguments in them later converged into the Resilience Operating Discipline.
Newsletters
Two, published on Substack and not mirrored here.
Becoming Cyber runs in seasons rather than as a feed, on what it takes to become, and remain, a cybersecurity professional as agentic AI absorbs the entry tier of the career. For the person at the door, and the people who decide whether it opens. Becoming Cyber →
CyberFuture covers the governance and board oversight of security: what boards and regulators are coming to expect of the function, and how accountability is actually allocated when something fails. Issues appear when something warrants interpretation. CyberFuture →
Colophon
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