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Tomorrow’s Vulnerabilities Are Today’s Shortcuts (11 views)

A rookie Path Traversal oversight in a 2000s PHP script - flagged by an automated NSA scan - became the catalyst for a 25-year career built on Zero Trust, robust input sanitisation, and rigorous Cloud Architecture.  Modern security resilience stems from eliminating today’s...read more >>
created Wednesday 02 September 2026
revised Wednesday 02 September 2026

The time the bloody NSA sent me an email to audit my PHP code (and how it shaped my whole career) (11 views)

How an early 2000s security slip-up and a surprise email from the NSA shaped my lifelong Zero Trust approach to engineering, from simple PHP scripts to complex AWS Cloud architectures.
created Wednesday 02 September 2026
revised Thursday 03 September 2026
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