Accidental CISO

https://infosec.exchange/@accidentalciso

I accidentally became the CISO. I didn't want this job, but the job chose me. I'm scared, and I want to go home.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AccidentalCISO
Blog: https://www.accidentalciso.net
Podcast: https://www.mindfulsmbshow.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@accidentalciso

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Last Notes

2026-09-14 15:18:33 UTC

Look, you pay me to be paranoid. If I'm not worried about this, you definitely shouldn't be.

2026-08-13 16:11:05 UTC

Buying life insurance is weird. You're like, "I'll bet you $70/mo that I'm going to die, and if I'm right, you give my wife half a mil." And the insurance company is like "No dawg, not yet. We'll take that bet."

2026-08-10 20:08:00 UTC

Everyone keeps talking about AI harnesses, but nobody is talking about AI muzzles.

2026-05-14 15:41:38 UTC

A good friend of mine was affected by the layoffs at Cisco. If anyone needs a fantastic graphic designer with deep UX, security industry, and startup experience, ping me. Austin based.

2026-04-17 15:42:51 UTC

I’m building a slide deck for a career day presentation about cybersecurity to a bunch of 8th graders. I obviously need more cyber memes. Please reply with any of your favorites that might be relevant to a career day talk. 🙏

2026-04-08 15:43:00 UTC

How long before AI can’t get to fixing all the bugs AI finds because AI is too busy building new features?

2025-12-18 01:07:07 UTC

Pro-Tip: You don’t have to wait until mid-life to have a crisis.

2025-10-21 00:14:40 UTC

So, how did everyone’s DR test go today?

2025-07-27 02:21:39 UTC

I seem to have reached the middle aged totally done with bullshit phase of life.

2025-05-03 16:51:44 UTC

Yeah, yeah, vibe coding is cool and all, but have you tried vibe auditing?

2025-04-16 19:41:38 UTC

Pouring one out for the Zoom DNS admins.

2025-04-05 18:53:11 UTC

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Better than expected turnout in our little rural town in a red county in a swing state. It was nice to see.

2025-03-12 02:55:20 UTC

Joann Fabrics is going out of business and scammers are taking advantage of people looking for deals. There is a pretty well done fake site, joannofficial dot com, that has a fully functioning catalog and shopping cart. My wife got tricked this evening.
1/5

2025-01-24 15:10:16 UTC

"That's silly. Nobody here would make that mistake."
Given sufficient organizational size, the likelihood of any particular conceivable human error event occurring becomes non-trivial.

2025-01-23 22:54:51 UTC

Great, you’ve made it into management! Those decisions don’t seem all that dumb anymore, now, do they?

2025-01-13 13:57:57 UTC

I don't know what any of this means. Did AI write this control?

2025-01-07 01:29:19 UTC

Look, I’m old. I make noises when I sit down and stand up. Why does everyone have to keep asking me if I’m OK?

2024-12-31 19:55:42 UTC

As you are preparing for your annual password change, I would like to remind you that our password policy clearly states that all characters are special.

2024-12-12 13:01:49 UTC

Someday, I’m going to write my memoir, and y’all are really going to know how batshit crazy my journey has been.

2024-12-10 13:01:04 UTC

If it isn’t done by Thursday, it’s not getting done this year.

2024-12-08 01:32:00 UTC

I can’t wait to watch the United Health movie.

2024-12-04 13:57:04 UTC

Opsec is a lot like planting a tree.
The best time to do it was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

2024-12-03 22:01:11 UTC

If you don’t mind me asking, how many top priorities do you have, exactly?

2024-11-18 14:14:49 UTC

The cloud is to infrastructure as AI is to ________. 🤔