Enterprise NetSec
Segmentation, routing, and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps large networks defensible.
Volume I · 2026
Quiet writing on
noisy machines.
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
AI & Cyber
Where machine learning systems create new attack surface — and where old defenses still hold.
Governance
Risk, frameworks, and the organizational work that turns security theatre into security.
Tech Mommy Life
Field notes on building a serious technical career with a small person in the next room.
Featured
AI Security Agents for IoT Devices
What happens when we put autonomous defenders inside the smallest, least patchable machines on the network — and why the agent is only as trustworthy as the telemetry it can see.
AI & Cyber·October 1, 2026·8 min read
The Archive
- AI & Cyber·May 12, 2026
Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection
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.
- Governance·April 28, 2026
Zero Trust Isn't a Product. It's a Posture.
Vendors sell zero trust as a SKU. The interesting work is in identity, segmentation, and the cultural shift away from network-perimeter thinking.
- Enterprise NetSec·April 14, 2026
BGP for People Who Build Apps
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.
- Tech Mommy Life·March 30, 2026
Writing With a Toddler on My Lap
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.
- AI & Cyber·March 11, 2026
Evaluating RAG Without Fooling Yourself
Retrieval-augmented generation looks great in demos and worse in production. A practical evaluation harness that catches the failure modes that matter.
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