Blog - Bill Weber

Is the Government Behaving like a Startup?

Is the Government behaving like a Startup

June 4, 2022

The Government Services Organization has a team of outsiders called 18F. It emerged from President Obama’s Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program that brings outsiders into government to handle some of its most challenging problems. The team focused on this problem and believes it can get the 6 month process down to 30 days.

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Is Crypto Economics about Fiat or Fluidity?

June 3, 2022

Crypto Coins have taken a recent tumble in the markets as traded against Fiat currencies, and it has caused a lot of noise about the future and value of the technology. So, let’s talk about the actual value of Block Chain and, more importantly, where this all must go from here.

What MITRE ATT&CK tells us about prioritizing mitigations

May 23, 2022

defenders use a framework like MITRE ATT&CK when attackers don’t?” The reality of this is that cyber criminals are lazy and only when the easy thing doesn’t work will they find more inventive ways to breach our defenses.

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NOVA Lab: Rancher Cluster Part 1: Virtual Machine Setup

May 17, 2022

Today’s project is to install Rancher ahead of getting my new RPI and MiniPC Cluster online. To start this project, I’m going to use…

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NOVA Lab: PIHole & Ansible

May 15, 2022

So today I’m setting out to recreate my home lab.Here is a quick view of the resources I’m restructuring. While eventually, I want to…

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The Future of SCAP is the missing GAP in OSCAL

May 13, 2022

Certainly, in CyberSecurity, it can seem like that. This is especially true when new ideas emerge so quickly that current projects languish and eventually become lost in the pile of unmaintained code.

Tired of Following the Compliance Herd?

May 1, 2022

If the idea of following the industry standard of care for your IT projects is offensive to you, there is some good news.

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Novel Applications for Ethereum ERC-721 Non-Fungible Tokens

October 15, 2020

Since the introduction of blockchain technology, several of the key applications have been in creating digital currency. Understandable as the key features of non-repudiation and distributed ledger are both desirable aspects of a monetary system.

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Your Identity Is Showing: Mensa AG 2019

July 1, 2019

Are you protecting yourself online? While sometimes it seems like an impossible task, this talk will give you some basic security hygene topics for…

BlockChain Fundamentals

BlockChain Fundamentals

July 1, 2019

Doing a quick presentation for the Mensa Annual Gathering 2019 in Phoenix. Come see us on Wednesday and make it more interesting!