Author: Tony DeGonia

A software engineer hired for an internal IT AI team immediately became an insider threat by loading malware onto his workstation.

After a long, steady decline in national suicide rates, those numbers began steadily ticking up in the late 1990s and have generally risen ever since, with nearly 50,000 people in the U.S. taking their own lives in 2022, up 3% from the previous year.

U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Pleads Guilty to Charges of Conspiracy to Obtain and Disclose National Defense Information, Export Control Violations and Bribery

The unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent in July, and nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 114,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing, while information lost jobs.

Mastering Cybersecurity Discovery: Best Practices for Selling SIEM and MDR Services to Enterprise Customers.

A former U.S. Army intelligence analyst was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information, including sensitive, non-public U.S. military information, to an individual he believed was affiliated with the Chinese government.

Carroll was in his early 80s. He had Parkinson’s disease and the kind of heart that still looked out for others even as his body began to betray him. He lived just two doors down from me, and for a long time, we’d talk, help each other, and check in. He was the kind of old-school man who would give you the shirt off his back, even if it was threadbare.

Romance scams are one of the most manipulative forms of social engineering, preying not just on vulnerabilities in technology—but in people. I’m a cybersecurity engineer, but more importantly, I’m human. And this past week, I found myself at the center of one of these emotional attacks.

In cybersecurity, trust is everything. Customers don’t just buy products — they buy confidence that the technology will solve real problems, integrate into their environment, and keep their data safe. One of the most powerful ways companies build that confidence is through a role often overlooked: the corporate evangelist.

In cybersecurity, the title Solutions Architect (SA) carries weight. Customers see SAs as trusted advisors — people who understand not just products, but problems, strategy, and long-term architecture.

But how does a Solutions Architect career actually progress? Just like Sales Engineers, there’s a journey — from early tactical roles to principal-level strategy leaders shaping enterprise roadmaps.