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My first Microsoft certification renewal experiences - AZ500 and SC300
30 Jan 2023 · 6 min read · exam · certification

My first Microsoft certification renewal experiences - AZ500 and SC300

Exam renewal experiences

How to apply Group Policy tied to an AD Security Group without a reboot
18 Jan 2023 · 5 min read · how-to · windows

How to apply Group Policy tied to an AD Security Group without a reboot

Tips on applying AD Group Policy without rebooting

Introducing: The Audrey Project
6 Jan 2023 · 2 min read · the-audrey-project · news

Introducing: The Audrey Project

Curate your own news!

Keeping up to date with Tech, Cloud and Security info
30 Dec 2022 · 6 min read · news · feeds

Keeping up to date with Tech, Cloud and Security info

Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about something that comes up often enough that its probably worth a post now! I’m often asked how I manage to keep up with whats going in tech in general, and …

26 Dec 2022 · 1 min read · site-news

Site Structure Changes

This is a very quick update to make you aware of some changes I’ve made: There is a new Personal Blog section for my non-technical blog posts and I have moved my Job Interview and Invisible Illness posts there. …

What are shadow admins in Windows, why should you care and what can you do about them?
23 Dec 2022 · 9 min read · cybersecurity · infosec

What are shadow admins in Windows, why should you care and what can you do about them?

Detect and remove shadow admins

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Somewhere Over Europe

Some ideas arrive fully formed. Others sort of… leak in.

This one started somewhere between Beijing and Stockholm, half-rewatching Inception on a plane, half-asleep, and very much not trying to have any original thoughts.

There’s a scene in that film about dream architecture. …

April 26, 2026 Read
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 3): Defending Against Runtime Abuse
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


This is Part 3 of a 3-part series.

Part Title
Part 1 The Leak, the Context, and the Framework …

April 2, 2026 Read
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 2): Mapping the Trust Boundaries and the Attack Tree
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


This is Part 2 of a 3-part series.

Part Title
Part 1 The Leak, the Context, and the Framework …

April 2, 2026 Read
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 1): The Leak, the Context, and the Framework
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


The Procurement TL;DR

If you are buying or integrating an AI Agent platform today, ignore the “magic” demos. Ask these three questions:

  1. How is my …

March 31, 2026 Read
OID-See v1.1.0: External Identity Posture, iOS Support, and New Auth Methods
OID-See v1.1.0: External …

This is a personal blog and all content herein is my own opinion and not that of my employer.


OID-See v1.1.0 is out

v1.0.1 tightened the scoring.

v1.1.0 expands what OID-See can actually see.

This is the biggest release since the initial drop: a new external identity posture surface, a fully …

March 31, 2026 Read
Self-Hosting Umami on Netlify + Azure: What I’d Do Differently (and Why Your Database Probably Isn’t the Problem)
Self-Hosting Umami on …

Self-Hosting Umami on Netlify + Azure

Prisma fights, pgcrypto drama, CSP facepalms, cold starts… and assumptions with teeth


TL;DR

I set out to self-host Umami analytics for this website using:

  • Netlify (Next.js runtime - I already host my site here so it made sense to me!)
  • Azure PostgreSQL Flexible …

March 25, 2026 Read
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