Category Archives: Security Blog

Phoenix Scottish Festival: 2024

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Carmelo

We had a great time at the Phoenix Scottish Festival. We brought Allysen with us and even met up with our friends who run AZ Tardis, getting to know them a little more. They had their own tent and are … Continue reading →

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Cybersecurity Summit in Scottsdale

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Carmelo

I went to the Cybersecurity Summit at the Phoenician, which is in Scottsdale. It’s not my first time at this venue. It’s pretty snazzy. The thing is though, that to get there “on time” I had to sit in about … Continue reading →

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Crowdstrike’s Fal.Con 2023

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Carmelo

Nick had some extra passes that came with our contract and we tried to get our teams to go, and only a few actually wanted to, so I accompanied them. It’s a long drive to Vegas, about 5 hours long, … Continue reading →

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Risk and Security Regional Community Forum

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Carmelo

Wipro/Edgile/ServiceNow me out to Silicon Valley to have a discussion on my project associated with my Vulnerability Governance program and we ended up being the headliner! It was pretty cool and I got to hang out with a coworker and … Continue reading →

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Blackhat & DefCon

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Carmelo

So I just got back from 2 back-to-back conferences in Las Vegas and wow, am I tired! I got to spend a lot of quality time with coworkers and talking to vendors and other like-minded nerds and geeks.    

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Nashville Security Leadership Meeting

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Carmelo

We needed to get together to have some strategy and budget discussions, it was a lot of tough work and we tried to balance it out with some good food and breaking bread with a couple of our local team … Continue reading →

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Tampa, Florida: Business Trip

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Carmelo

Earlier this month, my boss had to go meet with his boss in Tampa… We convinced him to do a leadership offsite. There is a lot of stuff we needed to talk about. So many things going on in the … Continue reading →

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Black Hat & Def Con 2022

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Carmelo

I have my first opportunity ever to attend Black Hat and DefCon in Las Vegas. I got to rub elbows with others and meet with my co-workers, and also reconnect with some of my peers. It was an experience I … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Purple Teaming

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Carmelo

As part of my new role of Senior Director over the Security Operations Center, it made sense to learn more about Purple Teaming and this training was free and came with a cool certificate, so I did it.

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Washington DC

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Carmelo

For the last 2 days, I took a quick flight out to Washington for a meeting, then less than 24 hours later, I was on a plan back home. It was a good working meeting trip and we got a … Continue reading →

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