Enterprise NetSec
Segmentation, routing, and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps large networks defensible.
Volume I · 2026
I am Alice — an engineering leader writing about the networks we defend, the models we can't quite trust, the governance that holds it together, and doing all of it with a small child in the next room.
Four Pillars
Segmentation, routing, and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps large networks defensible.
Where machine learning systems create new attack surface — and where old defenses still hold.
Risk, frameworks, and the organizational work that turns security theatre into security.
Field notes on building a serious technical career with a small person in the next room.
Featured
LLM applications inherit a class of vulnerabilities the security community spent two decades learning to defend against. Here is what changes — and what does not.
The Archive
Vendors sell zero trust as a SKU. The interesting work is in identity, segmentation, and the cultural shift away from network-perimeter thinking.
You do not need to run a backbone to benefit from understanding how the internet actually routes your traffic. A field guide for application engineers.
Notes on doing technical work in the seams of a small life. What changed, what didn't, and the lies I stopped telling myself about productivity.
Retrieval-augmented generation looks great in demos and worse in production. A practical evaluation harness that catches the failure modes that matter.
The Dispatch
Occasional letters on network defense, AI risk, governance, and the life around the work. No spam, unsubscribe any time.