Mastodawn

Apr 30, 2025

Over the weekend, a colleague and I presented "AI-Driven Threats and Defenses: A New Cybersecurity Frontier" at the National CyberWatch Center (Northeast 3CS) hosted at both Lehigh University and Northampton Community College. Great conversations with cybersecurity focused students. #AI

James Monek

Apr 6, 2025

Passed the #AWS #AI Practitioners Certification Exam. Good general overview of AI, #ML, compliance, guardrails, and AWS services.

James Monek

Feb 22, 2025

Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit, known as HECVAT is now available in #AWS artifacts. Useful tool for contract reviews assessing vendor #security #cloud posture. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/higher-education-community-vendor-assessment-toolkit-now-available-on-aws-artifact/

Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit now available on AWS Artifact | Amazon Web Services

EDUCAUSE and the Shared Assessments working group collaborated with Internet2 and REN-ISAC, to create the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT). EDUCAUSE is a non-profit association committed to advancing the use of technology and data in higher education. The HECVAT is a third-party, vendor questionnaire framework designed for higher education institutions to evaluate the security and privacy posture of cloud and technology providers. It is intended to centralize vendor security and compliance information for ease of use. Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers both the HECVAT Lite version and Full version to customers on-demand.

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James Monek

Jan 11, 2025

For those that need to virtualize various #operatingsystems on #macOS M series chips such as #linux and #windows, I have a small write up on how to do this and where to find the ARM versions. https://jamesmonek.com/posts/installing-oses-on-macos-m-series-arm-chips/

Installing OSes on macOS M Series ARM Chips

As I prepare for the spring 2025 semester using the latest macBook Pro M4 series, I had to make some adjustments to virtualize operating systems that I use for various courses. While I use Parallels for macOS, these tips and OSes should work using VMware Fusion and UTM. Debian on macOS M Series ARM Chips Debian is fairly straightforward, download the ARM ISO by going to https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ and select arm64. Create a VM from the ISO. Ubuntu on macOS M Series ARM Chips At the time of this writing, the latest version of Ubuntu Desktop 2024.04.1 does not support ARM. If you want to run the latest version of Ubuntu Desktop on the ARM chip, you will need to run the Server OS version.

James Monek

Dec 31, 2024

Excellent read on #passkey #security and #passwordmanagers https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security/

Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security

Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here’s what to know about passkeys.

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James Monek

Dec 30, 2024

Good read on artificial general intelligence #AI https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/openai's-latest-model-shows-agi-is-inevitable.-now-what

OpenAI's Latest Model Shows AGI Is Inevitable. Now What?

The question is no longer whether AGI will arrive, but whether we'll be ready when it does.

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James Monek

Dec 16, 2024

Successful #Internet2 TechEx Conference. Presentations on developing #GenAI chatbots and Secure Research Cloud in #aws Plus 2 panels on #cloud and #infosec