James Monek

Over the weekend, a colleague and I presented "AI-Driven Threats and Defenses: A New Cybersecurity Frontier" at the National CyberWatch Center (Northeast 3CS) hosted at both Lehigh University and Northampton Community College. Great conversations with cybersecurity focused students. #AI

A Demo of AI in Network Automation YouTube video by Internet2

Quick video on AI in #network #automation using #nautobot NautobotGPT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FkP...

Passed the #AWS #AI Practitioners Certification Exam. Good general overview of AI, #ML, compliance, guardrails, and AWS services.

Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit now available on AWS Artifact | Amazon Web Services EDUCAUSE and the Shared Assessments working group collaborated with Internet2 and REN-ISAC, to create the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT). EDUCAUSE is a non-profit associ...

Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit, known as HECVAT is now available in #AWS artifacts. Useful tool for contract reviews assessing vendor #security #cloud posture. aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...

For those that need to virtualize various #operatingsystems on #macOS M series chips such as #linux and #windows, I have a small write up on how to do this and where to find the ARM versions. jamesmonek.com/posts/instal...

Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here’s what to know about passkeys.

Excellent read on #passkey #security and #passwordmanagers arstechnica.com/security/202...

OpenAI's Latest Model Shows AGI Is Inevitable. Now What? The question is no longer whether artificial general intelligence will arrive, but whether we'll be ready when it does.

Good read on artificial general intelligence #AI www.lawfaremedia.org/article/open...

Successful #Internet2 TechEx Conference. Presentations on developing #GenAI chatbots and Secure Research Cloud in #aws Plus 2 panels on #cloud and #infosec

My Week at TechEX: Lucrecia Kim-Boswell from Stanford University In this series, we spotlight research and education community members as they gear up for the 2024 Internet2 Technology Exchange.

Great article from colleague Lucrecia Kim-Boswell, Stanford University, on this week’s #Internet2 #Technology Exchange conference. internet2.edu/my-week-at-t...

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation (Preview) - AWS Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation (Preview)

This one looks interesting for my #LLM Model Evaluation research, #AWS Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation (Preview), aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

When in Philly get #vegan cannolis at Batter and Crumbs.

In continuing to research LLM evaluation techniques for better #promptengineering, #AWS Bedrock has Prompt Optimization in preview for console and API. docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/late...

Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over ‘excessive’ surveillance in smart devices UK consumer group Which? finds some everyday items including watches and speakers are ‘stuffed with trackers’

Getting caught up on some security podcasts, #security and #privacy continue to amaze me around IoT devices. This article talks about Air Fryers asking for access to location tracking and audio. Look at your home wireless network to see all the devices connected www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Spending some time researching #AI LLM model evaluations to improve prompt engineering and compare models. #AWS Bedrock Evaluation Model seems to do fairly well if you don’t need to evaluate #OpenAI #ChatGPT. Programmatically works, having issues with human eval. docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/late...

X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads Cybercriminals are abusing X advertisements to promote websites that lead to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and other scams.

Another reason to be careful on the old bird site www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #infosec

Data Center World - Where the Data Center Industry Comes Together Data Center World delivers expert insight and strategies on the technologies and concepts you need to know to plan, manage, and optimize your data center. April 15-18, 2024 - Washington, DC

My Data Center World proposal on "Lessons Learned from a Data Center Incident" was accepted. Looking forward to presenting and sharing our experiences from dealing with incident. #datacenter #datacenterworld datacenterworld.com

Summary of recent releases from #aws regarding AI and building solutions in the #cloud. aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin...

Nautobot v2 recently released for infrastructure as code, specifically #network. blog.networktocode.com/post/nautobo...

Google’s RETVec Open Source Text Vectorizer Bolsters Malicious Email Detection Google shows how RETVec, a new and open source text vectorizer, can improve the detection of phishing attacks, spam and other harmful content.

Google's RETVec open source text vectorizer and detection of malicious emails www.securityweek.com/googles-retv... #infosec #cybersecurity