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Human in the Loop: Which Decision Matters Most
Regulated companies waste resources keeping humans in low-value approval loops while automating high-stakes irreversible decisions. The strategic shift is ruthlessly simple: automate the reversible, defend the irreversible.
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Immutability Is Marketing: The Real Trust Model
Blockchain 'immutability' is a myth. What actually matters is who controls the override mechanism and under what conditions they can rewind the ledger.
Your Data Is the Moat, Not the AI Model
AI models are commoditizing with identical outputs. Your competitive edge comes from proprietary context and data, not which model you choose.
AI Decision Trails: Why Reconstruction Beats Bias Claims
Courts don't care if your AI is fair—they care if you can prove how it decided. Financial services and tech firms face massive liability if they can't reconstruct AI hiring and staffing decisions.
AI Doesn't Replace Hours—It Replaces Accountability
AI increases productivity but shifts accountability to humans, not hours worked. The real cost of AI-assisted work is personal liability for outputs you can't fully control.
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Security: We are doomed to repeat it.
Some simple yet secure cipher, easily acquired and easily read, should be introduced, by which means messages might to all intents and…
Disrupt Patching
Patching shouldn’t be so hard.
Jay’s 2017 Information Security Predictions
It’s that time of year when security writers across the globe predict what we can expect from information security in the following year…
Review: The Car Hacker's Handbook
A hands-on review of Craig Smith's The Car Hacker's Handbook — why it reads more like a battlefield manual for hobbyist hackers than a cover-to-cover guide, and who should pick it up.
Kevin Chung
Welcome to Season 2 and Episode 19 of the Building a Life and Career in Security Podcast.
10 Minute Call with an IRS Scammer
9 = 38am on Friday, the phone rings with a call from Tulsa, OK. I’m not sure I know anyone in Tulsa so I let it go to voicemail. Odd, they…
The Rules (of how not to be a Fake, a Robot, or a Jerk)
Today’s post is by Richard Kim.
My First Day at RSM
In case you missed it, I recently posted a podcast episode on my experiences looking for a job. (You can find that here.) Based upon those…
Hacking Your InfoSec Job Hunt
If you missed it, I posted a podcast episode on my job hunt as part of my podcast, Building a Life and Career in Security Podcast. TL;DR? I…
Matt Decker
Welcome to Season 2 and Episode 17 of the Building a Life and Career in Security Podcast.
Brakeing Down Security
Dive into the world of cybersecurity with Bryan Brake and Brian Boettcher, hosts of the Brakeing Down Security Podcast. Learn how their mentor-mentee relationship fueled their careers and insights into the field.
You Should Write. Here's How.
Discover how writing can boost your career in information security. JaySchulman.com invites guest posts, offering a platform to showcase your ideas and writing, with expert editing and flexible topics.