“I’m like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught one, you know, I just do…things.” -- The Joker, The Dark Knight, 2008, Jonathon and Christopher Nolan   Matt Stephenson welcomes Chris Humphreys to pm73media. How does a nice boy from Metro Washington DC start playing pro football (or soccer for you heathens) in England, then move on to multiple other international squads before landing in the United States Army as a linguist with a focus on security? After that... how does he become a leading expert for state and national cybersecurity initiatives? And jus ..read more

Standing in line, marking time Waiting for the welfare dime 'Cause they can't buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes Just for fun he says, "get a job" That's just the way it is Some things will never change That's just the way it is Ah, but don't you believe them  -- Bruce Hornsby You tired of hearing about that 3.5 million open cybersecurity jobs number? You know for the open I like to bring either culture or data… let’s go with some data this time. How bout we dig a little deeper? There are nearly 465,000 unfilled cyber jobs across the nati ..read more

  It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity -- Albert Einstein It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are -- Clive James, writer and poet If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it -- Lyndon B. Johnson The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of eve ..read more

    "Be Water, My Friend. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."  -- Bruce Lee   After all of the bullshit of the past couple of years… what do you do? How do you evolve? In these turbulent times, are we reinventing ourselves? Are we reimagining ourselves? Are you a sequel? Are you a reboot? We’re stepping well outside the normal conventions of our tech indus ..read more

How hard is it to do your job when your job involves government, the military and the commercial sector?    “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help”  -- Ronald Reagan   Does that actually have to be the case? What if you are really good at what you do and you happen to work for the government… Or you are a civilian contractor who does government work… Or insert any of a thousand variables involved with providing products and services for the federal government   How do you get good and stay good at what ..read more

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