IETF | Phishing-Resistant Phone Number Attestation for MFA
IETF Internet-Draft | November 3,
2025
An IETF Internet-Draft proposing a phishing-resistant phone number attestation mechanism for multi-factor
authentication. Using origin-bound cryptographic challenges similar to WebAuthn, this protocol ensures users
only attest phone number ownership to legitimate applications, mitigating SMS-based phishing attacks.
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SEV0 SF 2025 | SEV me the trouble: Pre-incidents at Plaid
SEV0 Conference talk | September 23,
2025
In my 2025 SEV0 talk, I describe how Plaid implemented a pre-incident framework to de-risk major changes,
both by catching mistakes early, and increasing responder effectiveness when incidents do happen.
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SEV0 SF 2024 | Stop, Drop, and SEV4: Why small incidents are a
big deal
SEV0 Conference Talk | September 24,
2024
In my 2024 SEV0 talk, I explain my philosophy on making small incidents a big deal; this decreases
inhibitions to report anomalous symptoms, creates better investigation processes, and helps spot larger
patterns before they become larger incidents.
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Amazon Web Services | Deploying Batch Workloads on EKS with
Spark
Amazon Web Services | October 25,
2023
I was able to leverage EKS to deploy Spark applications at scale to support Lacework's security analysis
workloads. My collaboration with the EKS team resulted in a significant cost savings and reliability
improvement for Lacework's batch architecture.
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SSRN | Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act
(AIDA): A Critical Review
SSRN | July 24, 2023
An analysis of Canada's proposed AI Act from the perspective of an AI engineer. Ranked in SSRN's Top-10
lists for Innovation & Regulatory Law & Policy and Innovation & Cyberlaw & Policy articles.
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