Articles on Tools

Below are my perspectives on Tools, drawn from my work as a security leader and practitioner.

• Communication Interactive Replays of Conversations: A New Tool
  Conversation replays add an engaging dimension to training materials and docs. Save the conversation and your annotations in a data file, then use my tool to generate a self-contained HTML player you...
• Tools Publishing Your Website Content to AI Assistants
  When people ask AI assistants about your product or project, they often get outdated information. Here's how to publish your static website content directly to AI tools using Cloudflare Workers and...
• Tools How to Set Up a SpiderFoot Server for OSINT Research
  SpiderFoot automates OSINT collection from numerous data sources, including Shodan and Have I Been Pwned, to gather intelligence about IPs, domains, and email addresses. Running the free, open source...
• Malware The History of Fileless Malware - Looking Beyond the Buzzword
  The term "fileless malware" originated with Code Red worm in 2001 and initially meant malware that remained solely in memory. It evolved to encompass specimens that avoid placing malicious...
• Malware How Would You Detect and Impede Ransomware on an Endpoint?
  Anti-ransomware tools can detect malicious encryption by flagging processes that read or write too many files too quickly, or by monitoring for changes to files' entropy values. Decoy files that...
• Assessments Experts Cannot Help Overstating Their Expertise
  Self-proclaimed experts are more likely to claim knowledge of things they don't know, including nonexistent terms in their fields of expertise. This overclaiming tendency means security professionals...