Still Here. More Than Ever.
IoTSSA2026-10-06T13:02:56+00:00I know. Six weeks without a word. No post. No Monday move. Nothing in the inbox. If you assumed I had gone quiet because there was nothing to say, that is the opposite of what
The FAR Always Shows Up Last
IoTSSA2026-08-24T13:42:38+00:00Federal Acquisition Regulation. The rulebook that governs what every company selling to the federal government has to do. When FAR moves, primes move. When primes move, their supply chains move.
Building the Practice…Not Just the Project
IoTSSA2026-08-10T12:17:26+00:00A practice means repeatable methodology, a defined service catalog, and the technical credibility to deliver consistent work across multiple clients without rebuilding from scratch each time.
The Q-Clock Just Got a Second Hand
IoTSSA2026-08-05T17:12:03+00:00On June 29 NIST stood up the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center with SRI International. Twenty million dollars to start.
Quantum-Safe Is Not a Standard
IoTSSA2026-07-27T12:27:40+00:00There is no certification, no audit body, and no regulatory definition that qualifies a product as quantum-safe. Any vendor using that phrase on a slide deck without naming a specific NIST standard and a specific implementation timeline is telling you nothing.
Crypto-Agility: The Skill That Outlasts Every Standard
IoTSSA2026-07-20T12:35:33+00:00“What happens when the standard changes? Are we going to have to do this again in five years?"
The Cyber Insurer Landscape
IoTSSA2026-07-13T16:20:59+00:00Carriers are watching. The same way they watched multi-factor authentication for two years before it became a hard underwriting requirement around 2021.
PQC Readiness as a Service
IoTSSA2026-06-29T13:27:49+00:00"Hold on. We already pay you for managed services. This PQC migration should be included in the current SLA."
When the Heat Map Comes Back Red
IoTSSA2026-06-22T12:50:02+00:00The heat map came back red.It always does. That is not a bad outcome. That is the beginning of a billable relationship.