Nine Crows Information

Glad to see 2020 in the rear view mirror. Nasty bit of a year with cancelled vacations and shelter in place. Hoping that with a new, competent group in control at the national level and vaccines rolling out that well see a better 2021. I was very happy to see how well working remote went this year. I suspect that once things start returning to normal that Ill revert to being in the office, but opens up options that werent really there before. Work has been the expected sequence of steps forward and unexpected (or somewhat expected) issues. Dug into TLS-PSK rather than X.509 based TLS to address performance issues. Key rotation is an interesting challenge all around. This year well tackle securing multicast communications. I inherited a partial solution but things have evolved since then and well be working through those issues. Very interesting work and Ive taken a passing interest in cybersecurity to a whole new level over the last year. Ive picked up an Oculus Quest 2 to supplement my HTC Vive headset. Havent had time yet to figure out how to build Unity things to deploy to the platform. New year goals. Lots to look forward to this year and hoping it makes up for some of the mess that 2020 threw at us. Im well into the cybersecurity work that I became involved with as 2019 waned. Good things going on, challenges being surmounted. Getting ducks in rows Working for a company that cares very much about the well-being of its workers and in a role where I can work from home nearly as effectively as I can work in the office has been a wonderful thing. I miss the in person brain storming that can happen with everyone in one location. Weve been working around this with tele and video conferencing and that has worked pretty well. At this point Im not inclined to make being back in the office full time a thing until we have this pandemic (at least mostly) behind us. Weve reached the point where things are working quite well using the remote resources we have available. The home front has been a bit choppier. Weve ...