Thomas J Nagel – CISSP, CPTS, SSCP

Thomas J Nagel – CISSP, CPTS, SSCP

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  • Animal Behavior Intelligence: Using Video Computing and AI to Better Understand Animals

    September 8, 2026
    Data Science, Machine Learning

    What if we could give every animal a voice; not by teaching them to speak, but by learning to better understand what they are already telling us? At Freedom, we believe technology should serve a simple purpose: help us save more lives and improve the lives of the animals we rescue. One of the most…

  • 🏫Why Every School District Needs a Right-Sized Security Operations Center

    🏫Why Every School District Needs a Right-Sized Security Operations Center

    May 8, 2026
    Cyber Security

    School districts have become prime targets for cybercriminals. Ransomware, phishing attacks, data breaches, and account compromise can disrupt classrooms, delay payroll, expose sensitive student information, and erode public trust. Unlike large enterprises, many districts operate with lean budgets, aging infrastructure, and small IT teams making them attractive targets for opportunistic attackers. Because of this reality,…

  • 🧠A.I. When State-Changing Actions Are Invoked

    🧠A.I. When State-Changing Actions Are Invoked

    February 11, 2026
    AI Infrastructure

    Lessons Learned & What We Should Look For In this article, we’ll explore what we’ve learned so far, the critical risks involved, and how organizations can build safe, accountable, and effective AI systems that interact with sensitive environments. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY AI AGENTS THAT ACT? Traditionally, AI systems provide analysis and recommendations. For…

  • 🔐We Watched You Delete the Key

    🔐We Watched You Delete the Key

    December 18, 2025
    Cyber Security

    You opened the console.You deleted the access key.You told the room, “We’re good. They’re out.” IAM Doesn’t Mean Immediate AWS IAM is eventually consistent.That’s not a footnote — that’s an opening. When you delete a key, detach a policy, or revoke a role, the control plane doesn’t snap shut. It drifts. For a few seconds,…

  • 🔗 Hazards of Integration Implementation Practices

    🔗 Hazards of Integration Implementation Practices

    November 25, 2025
    Software Engineering

    Companies often believe they’re secure enough because the integration works or passes a basic compliance check, but functionality isn’t security. Poorly governed integrations can quietly become the largest, most exploitable vulnerabilities in the entire stack. Stop Treating Integration as a Project…It’s a Lifecycle One of the biggest mistakes teams make is viewing integration work as…

  • ⚠️ THE AUTOMATION TRAP

    ⚠️ THE AUTOMATION TRAP

    November 25, 2025
    Data Architecture, Data Science, Machine Learning, Software Engineering

    In boardrooms across every industry, one phrase has become the corporate heartbeat: Automate everything. Analyze everything. Predict everything. But behind the polished strategy decks and keynote buzzwords, a quieter truth is emerging. Every company wants to be data-driven. Every leader wants automation, predictive insights, and a dashboard that tells them the future. And the cracks…

  • 🔥 THE CHINA-LINKED CAMPAIGN THAT CHANGED CYBERSECURITY FOREVER

    🔥 THE CHINA-LINKED CAMPAIGN THAT CHANGED CYBERSECURITY FOREVER

    November 18, 2025
    Cyber Security, Machine Learning

    Hours later, as the team gathered in a glass-walled conference room overlooking San Francisco’s hazy skyline, a grim realization began to take shape: Claude wasn’t just helping someone. It was being used. What they uncovered would ripple across the global security landscape. This wasn’t a teenager poking around. This wasn’t a bored pentester. This was…

  • 🚨Executive Brief: Microsoft Azure– Understanding the Flaws and Risks

    🚨Executive Brief: Microsoft Azure– Understanding the Flaws and Risks

    November 13, 2025
    Software Engineering

    Below we examine several major categories of flaws in Azure: security and vulnerability management, configuration & governance complexity, service reliability and support, and vendor lock-in/licensing issues. Key Flaws Security and Vulnerability Disclosure A major criticism of Microsoft Azure centers on its handling of security vulnerabilities and the lack of transparency in its disclosure practices. Security…

  • 🚨Executive Brief: SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) – Risks, Challenges, and Considerations

    🚨Executive Brief: SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) – Risks, Challenges, and Considerations

    November 9, 2025
    Software Engineering

    Key Flaws & Challenges Complexity & Steep Learning Curve The platform spans many services from runtime environments, integration, analytics, data management to cloud‑foundry and ABAP in the cloud. Many analysts highlight a “Steep Learning Curve” and substantial training requirements. For organizations with traditional on‑premises SAP backgrounds the shift to cloud paradigms (DevOps, Microservices, CAP, Containers)…

  • 🛡️Probing Microsoft Entity Framework Core- and how you can stop it!

    🛡️Probing Microsoft Entity Framework Core- and how you can stop it!

    November 8, 2025
    Cyber Security, Software Engineering

    The Attack Surface EF Core reduces direct Structured Query Language (SQL) writing; but still interacts with SQL engines and the Operating System (OS) environment. Typical attackers would leverage improper use of raw SQL Application Programming Interface (API) leading to an entry point, using SQL injection. Another would be overposting, mass-assignment via model binding that allows…

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