A bit or two about myself: I was born in Germany, educated in the US, and now live in beautiful Oregon. I am passionate about technology and the benefits our modern digital devices and systems can impart to make communication, commerce, and resources more accessible than ever to many more people. While finishing my Graduate degree, I started Cyphertech Security to help small businesses secure their data and digital communications and have a plan B for incident recovery. My studies and research include AI, cryptography, cloud, forensics, data security, and supply chain risk management. Besides my research and writing, I like to build useful VMs on the AWS platform or my ESXi hypervisor server, design networks, configure NGFWs, implement mesh VPNs for IP camera and LAN access, and much more.
When not in the office, I like to ride my Trek Émonda ALR I built a few years ago and pick a few tunes out on the acoustic guitar. I also love spending time with my wife and two babies, a seven-month-old deer-head chihuahua named Penny and her mom Mia.
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My vision is to get people excited about things I am excited about: data security, successful configuration (the green check mark), and data backup. With this newsletter, I am devoted to sharing easy-to-understand content and various implementation projects anyone with a modest understanding of computers can complete for meaningful improvement. Guidance across the data security landscape is the newsletter's focus. While many enterprises have paid staff for this work, expect some overlap concerning personal digital security configurations. The application of tools is for the protection of data, whether that data resides on a firm's server, an individual's Network Attached Storage device or is in support of remote work or small home office use. So, even though personal digital security discovery often encompasses hobbling together a collection of YT videos with too many assumptions of underlying knowledge or missing critical details, this publication will make these topics much more understandable with practical examples.
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