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ThatConference 2020 – Online!

Arthur Kay — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 06:45:00 +0000

ThatConference — now in its 9th year (albeit virtual this time) — is a polyglot community conference for all things technology. Members help, teach and support each other year round, continually pushing to bring positive impact across our industry. ThatConference is so much more than “just a tech conference”. It has become particularly special to…

My first experience with Deno

Arthur Kay — Fri, 15 May 2020 20:48:15 +0000

I remember first learning about NodeJS during a presentation given by Ryan Dahl at SenchaCon in 2010 -- it was unbelievable to me then that someone could take JavaScript and run it as a CLI, power a web server, or do any of the things that I now take for granted. There's a shiny new thing -- Deno -- that puts security first, supports TypeScript, and I couldn't be more excited! Considering (1) how much I use NodeJS today and (2) how passionate I have become about cybersecurity it was inevitable that I would begin playing with this new creation - Deno.

OKR: 2020 Q2

Arthur Kay — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:42:08 +0000

Now that it’s April, I wanted to take a moment and review how my Q1 OKRs panned-out for the sake of personal accountability. As we see in the screenshot above, I pretty-well nailed this goal. I studied for my AWS exam and passed it — then continued looking into more advanced AWS certifications. Having said…

CISSP Study Guide

Arthur Kay — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:51:36 +0000

Although I haven't been blogging much over the past twelve months, one of my core goals for the latter half of 2019 was to achieve the CISSP certification to demonstrate my broad knowledge of both information systems and security practices. Admittedly, preparing for this exam was much more work than I had originally anticipated -- and I've spent the better part of 6 months studying my ass off to pass this exam.

2020: New Year’s Resolutions

Arthur Kay — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:43:50 +0000

There’s a saying I use on a frequent basis, though usually in reference to parenting: “The days are long, but the years are short.” I feel as though somehow I was just here writing this post for my 2019 goals… and oddly enough I didn’t publish any blog posts last year other than my resolutions.…

2019: New Year’s Resolutions

Arthur Kay — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:18:15 +0000

Can you believe it? This marks the 10th year that I have been writing down my New Year’s Resolutions! That’s a cool achievement in itself, and I feel pretty good about hitting most of my goals from last year. Let’s take a look back at my 2018 goals before I set some new ones for…

Book Review: Zero to One

Arthur Kay — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 20:01:02 +0000

I recently finished Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. I first saw this book on some list of “top books” and it immediately caught my attention as Peter Thiel is one of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Overall I really enjoyed this book — I’d even go as far to say I’d recommend it — but…

Installing Kali Linux on VirtualBox

Arthur Kay — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:17:51 +0000

This post is mostly for my own personal reference, as I’ve had to follow these steps at least 4 times this past year — and every time, I have to google the answers. Installing Kali Linux: Video There are a lot of videos on YouTube, but I find this one perfectly helpful and to the…

Practicing Mentorship

Arthur Kay — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:03:48 +0000

Over the years I have been very fortunate to have begun mentoring a wide variety of people. Not long ago I wrote about how wonderful and meaningful an experience being a mentor has been for me, and it’s something I feel very passionate about. I have compiled an interesting list of thoughts, actions, questions, and…

OWASP Chicago: Capture the Flag

Arthur Kay — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:11:48 +0000

Last night I attended the OWASP Chicago meetup where we had an opportunity to use Security Innovation's CMD+CTRL capture the flag platform. The general idea for "capture the flag" events is to introduce you to core cybersecurity concepts and provide insight into how hackers break into a web site leveraging common vulnerabilities, insecure practices and more.