SVP, Chief Information Security Officer @ Globex Corp | My job is 50% risk management, 50% steak dinners | Advisor to 17 startups including @alien
Joined October 2025
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6 Nov 2025
How to professionally say "I heard you the first time" in corporate speak π
5 Nov 2025
"That's fully aligned with our prior conversation and already incorporated into our current workstream."
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9 Dec 2025
People on X are fucking insane.
People on LinkedIn are much more normal.
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9 Dec 2025
Good morning fellows
Just sent some AI vendor a security questionnaire
Can't wait to see their AI generated response
I have a meeting with them today, I will them that I didn't prepare at all
That way they'll think I'm so busy they'll have to take me to a steakhouse immediately
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8 Dec 2025
Another example of a truly responsible vendor.
Thanks SlateDB CEO.
8 Dec 2025
110% more secure
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8 Dec 2025
This is an example of a great response from a truly responsible vendor.
@vercel I won't move to @Cloudflare if you don't fire your CTO after this incident.
But I do expect a steakhouse invitation immediately from your CEO.
8 Dec 2025
Todd, you should upgrade. Don't rely on the WAF for security. At best it gives you the minutes you need to upgrade
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7 Dec 2025
Here's why Claude Code is better than @cursor_ai:
7 Dec 2025
Between us, having a terminal open makes me feel like a hacker who actually knows how to code.
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7 Dec 2025
should I disable useEffect in prod until further notice?
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19 Nov 2025
I don't trust AI coding assistants. Or human ones. Or engineers in general.
18 Nov 2025
I have decided: if you do not hate your AI coding assistant with the passion of a thousand burning suns, then you are not a very good programmer.
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14 Nov 2025
Just realized my whole security strategy is basically:
1. Buy tool
2. Turn on 10% of features
3. Screenshot dashboard
4. Present to board as "AI-driven cyber defense fabric"
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5 Nov 2025
I didn't buy Wiz so you could build games.
I bought it so I could sleep at night knowing our cloud wasn't on fire.
And somehow I still lost to an intern named Kevin.
πΉοΈ Meet Path-Man: Your new favorite game. πΎπΎπΎ
Our 1-minute Wiz ASM game has arrived!
π€ Here's the challenge: Navigate the attack surface to reach exploitable risk before the attackers get you.
Think you've got the skills? wiz.io/path-man
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4 Nov 2025
Last week at the steakhouse, I told the waiter I'm "reviewing vendors".
He asked if that's the sauce or the wine list.
Halfway through the ribeye, my @splunk alert went off - false positive again, medium rare.
The @PaloAltoNtwks rep waved from across the room, we pretended not to see each other.
Still expensed the dinner as "incident response".
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4 Nov 2025
It is simply UNBELIEVABLE that some vendors, like this "Railway" startup, still say they're enterprise-ready without sharing their Helm chart for on-prem deployment.
"Railway is super cool but, how Enterprise ready is it?"
Very, but, our sales guy kept getting this question. A lot.
So we forged a fancy new enterprise page, with a brand new design motif (X-Ray) to showcase our safety, security, and transparency
Introducing "Railway@Work"
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3 Nov 2025
Showed this chart to my CFO. He thought it was our revenue projection
I said, "no, that's the global cost of a data breach".
He looked worried.
I looked excited.
Every time that line goes up, I get budget for another security tool.
Win win
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2 Nov 2025
Last night I dreamed our S3 buckets were public again.
Woke up sweating, checked CloudTrail, saw 4,000 unauthorized GET
... from myself testing permissions.
The intern said, "Don't worry Todd, we've got GuardDuty".
I said, "That's what I told the board".
Spent the morning writing a 42-page remediation plan.
By noon we had 3 new vendors, 2 NDAs, and one dinner reservation with Palo Alto.
Security posture unchanged, but morale? Through the roof.
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30 Oct 2025
Vendors, learn from this guy.
This is how a CEO of a responsible vendor should behave.
Kudos @tursodatabase!
30 Oct 2025
Let's do it. There's a Chick-fil-A nearby
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30 Oct 2025
Guys Iβm depressed. π
OpenAI just announced an AI that finds and fixes security bugs - which, frankly, is 200% more productive than me.
My board asked if Aardvark could join the next meeting instead of me.
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30 Oct 2025
Introducing Aardvark, our agentic security researcher:
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30 Oct 2025
Changed the security dashboard loaders from "loading" to "thinking"
Now my dashboards are Agentic.
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30 Oct 2025
My least favorite HTTP status code is 401.
Unauthorized...?!
I *am* the CISO.
Half the company reports to me, but apparently the firewall doesn't.
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30 Oct 2025
Can't wait for Cloudflare's "Attack of the AI crawlers" in Finland.
If they show how to block ChatGPT from reading our SharePoint, I'm giving them my entire 2026 budget.
Packing my architecture diagram and a few compliance questions, just in case.
30 Oct 2025
Cloudflare is excited to be attending Cyber Security Nordic Finland on the 4-5 November!
Join Jakub Borys, Sr Manager, Engineering for: Attack of the AI crawlers - How to regain control of your content.
As AI technologies evolve, so do the challenges around content ownership, data scraping, and digital control. Jakub will explore how organizations can protect their online assets, limit unwanted AI crawling, and build a security posture for the AI-driven Internet.
Secure your ticket here: cfl.re/4hDs9JQ
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