Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
I don't talk about my "actual" job that often. It's no secret that I work in cybersecurity and I've recently made a change. I'm excited to announce that I'll be continuing my own learning journey with Lacework where I'm joining as a Distinguished Cloud Strategist.
A lot of people asked if I would be continuing my videos and posts in any new role I took on. The answer is unequivocally yes.
While I do have a lot of internal responsibilities, I'll be more active than ever in the community! I have a mountain 🏔 of new topics to learn about and share with you. But, more important than that, I want to know what YOU want to learn about!
...and thank you for all your continued support.
More about Lacework at lacework.com
I don't talk about my "actual" job that often. It's no secret that I work in cybersecurity and I've recently made a change. I'm excited to announce that I'll be continuing my own learning journey with Lacework where I'm joining as a Distinguished Cloud Strategist.
A lot of people asked if I would be continuing my videos and posts in any new role I took on. The answer is unequivocally yes.
While I do have a lot of internal responsibilities, I'll be more active than ever in the community! I have a mountain 🏔 of new topics to learn about and share with you. But, more important than that, I want to know what YOU want to learn about!
...and thank you for all your continued support.
More about Lacework at lacework.com




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Researchers lead by a team at Red Canary recently found new macOS malware that was already widespread. Cybercriminals are actively hacking these systems. Is it time to panic?
We explore the issue in this short...
Index:
- The question [0:00]
- Silver Sparrow [0:04]
- Red Canary [0:22]
- Protect yourself [0:43]
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A tragic fraud emptied one persons life savings through a professional, well executed scam. The questions immediately turned to the transfer system. Should there be more safeguards in place to stop this type of fraud?
We examine this question in this short...
The original CBC Go Public article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/wire-transfer-fraud-1.5917139
Index:
- The question [0:00]
- Scammed [0:07]
- Procedures? [0:18]
- Professional criminals [0:40]
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In late 2017, New Relic did an AWS This is My Architecture video. The video talks about how they setup their Terraform execution plans in a modular fashion. This provided the team some much needed flexibility when managing builds.
Now, a few years later, I react to that video and see whats stood the test of time, what could be done simpler given todays technology, and generally critique the design against the AWS Well-Architected Framework in a mini AWS Well-Architected Review.
The original video: https://youtu.be/VcSQu-bca-M
More on the AWS Well-Architected Framework is at https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/w...
Follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/marknca
Read my AWS Hero bio at https://aws.amazon.com/developer/comm...
Learn more about the AWS Well-Architected Framework in my course on A Cloud Guru at https://markn.ca/courses/#mastering-t...
Index:
- [00:00] Intro
- [00:34] Introductions
- [01:15] Problem statement
- [02:32] New team
- [04:20] Folder structure
- [05:56] Centralized rules
- [07:20] Deployment privileges
- [09:38] Approval process
- [10:27] Reducing red tape
- [12:24] Can we improve? Can We Improve How New Relic Built Their Terraform in 2017? (Reaction)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w75Ro3LCHuE/mqdefault.jpg)


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Web browser cookies are fundamental to making modern web applications work through the browser. They are also the engine that powers ad tech which is violating our privacy on unheard of scale.
Can a balance be struck? We take a look in this short...
Index:
- The question [0:00]
- Total cookie protection [0:07]
- Privacy issues [0:25]
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