Listen to Episode 30 of Topping Talks. You can watch the Podcast here:
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Tune in to learn about my journey from using technology to find an accounting scam to working at the U.S Department of Defense to getting a role at one of the largest and most established banks in the financial industry. Also learn about hobbies from writing cybersecurity books to teaching, and much more.
Yesterday I wrote about moving autonomous-agent secrets out of a flat .env file. Why I kept Vaultwarden for people and recovery, added HashiCorp Vault for workloads, and treated identity, audit, PKI, and tested recovery as part of the deployment rather than follow-up work.
For a long time, my autonomous agent found credentials the same way many applications do. Why I replaced a flat environment file with scoped Vaultwarden access, short-lived agent sessions, and a verified audit trail that now reaches Graylog and Wazuh.
After years of working, teaching, writing in this field, the pattern I see most in newcomers is not lack of ability. It is freezing...
