Dwayne McDaniel
I help people figure stuff out.
I work at gitguardian.com
Also, I am at linkedin.com/in/dwaynemcdaniel/
- "You know when people don’t have time for your content? When it’s bad. And there’s so much bad content out there that we started to believe that lazy people were the problem. No, they aren’t. Bad content is the problem. And now it’s easier than ever to generate it. " kellblog.com/2026/01/22/k...
- #ChiBrrCon 2026 All too soon, we are at the closing keynote: MBTI Meets Cybersecurity: AI Can Not Solve the Human Problem from Todd Fitzgerald, Author CISO Compass
- #ChiBrrCon 2026 WiCyS Panel - Community-Driven Success: How One Nonprofit Transforms Cyber Careers Speakers: Stella Camacho, Kevan Bard, Uljana Sejko, Cheton Jackson, Michael Phillips,
- #ChiBrrCon 2026 The Risky Business of AI Illiteracy Sean Juroviesky, Soundcloud
- #ChiBrrCon 2026 Gen AI Ain't Your Buddy - Neither Is Your Lawnmower Bill Bernard, Between Two Firewalls
- #ChiBrrCon 2026 Modernizing Security Operations in a World of AI Threats from Paul Hill, Palo Alto Networks
- #ChiBrrCon 2026 keeps on rolling with Panel: The challenges of tech education and the lack of practical experience Hosted by Michael Phillips With Dean Cantave, State of Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology Rasin Alexander, DePaul University Oron Mincha, cyberpro.ai
- #ChiBrrCon 2026 Keynote: "Resiliency through Adversity - Comparing 'Flight 1549' with.a Cyber Breach" from Joshua Peltz, VP, Zero Networks
- I am so excited #ChiBrrCon 2026 has officially kicked off. 820 tickets sold! Thank you, Illinois Institute of Technology for hosting us!
- "If you pause, your actions will differ from your original instincts." That’s the philosophy behind Nathan Koester's use of small language models to make browsing safer and automation to make teams more efficient. Hear the full story: youtu.be/AooYHimswYQ
- I had the amazing honor of speaking at #NHIcon 2026 earlier this week. I have not been able to stop pondering some of the amazing insights I heard there. I wrote up my thoughts and shared some notes I took during the event. blog.gitguardian.com/nhicon-2026/
- Credential leaks account for over 70% of security incidents — and it's not just a tech problem. AWS security leader Robert Saul joins us on The Security Repo Podcast to talk governance, culture, and why security starts with people. 🎧 Listen now: youtu.be/o00gcdYYtYc
- All too soon, we are at the end of the live sessions at #NHIcon 2026. A closing keynote, not recorded. "A Security Update from the Scaling Laws Frontier" From: Jason Clinton Deputy CISO at Anthropic
- #NHIcon keeps rolling into the afternoon with: "How AI Will Shape the Shift-Left in AppSec" from Anitha Dakamarri Lead Application Security Engineer at Donnelley Financial Solutions
- #NHIcon 2026 "From Helpers to Hazards: Testing AI-Generated Code for Security" Swapnil Pawar Lead Information Security Engineer at Apex Fintech Solutions "The "fix" is a new flaw"
- At #NHIcon This is the most info-packed lightning talk I have ever seen! "Building Cloud-Native Agents: Architecting Scalable and Autonomous AI for Modern Systems" from Nishanth Sirikonda Workday Solutions Architect at FirstDay Foundation
- My favorite quote: "We need to know; how do we get them to show?" A brilliant conversation at #NHIcon "The Power Shift: Building Security Guardrails in the Age of Agentic AI" with Larry Whiteside Paul Guerra Russell Okoth Yaron Levi and Diana Kelley
- #NHIcon 2026 Audit‑Ready Grounding - Build a “Cite‑or‑Fail” Databricks Agent in Minutes Shaurya Agrawal Start-Up CTO at Yournxt Technologies
- #NHIcon 2026 is rolling right along with: "Seeing the Invisible: Telemetry That Makes AI Agents Investigable" Pavan Kumar Kota IEEE Senior Member, Architect and PHD Student at Walmart Global Tech
- #NHIcon is full of great content slides :) Governing the Ghost in the Machine: Identity & Security Architectures for Agentic AI from Gaurav Singodia Senior Manager, Cloud DevOps & SRE at Snowflake
- Absolutley loving #NHIcon 2026 Governing the Ghost in the Machine: Identity & Security Architectures for Agentic AI from Gaurav Singodia Senior Manager, Cloud DevOps & SRE at Snowflake
- #NHIcon 2026 "How NHIs and Agentic AI Change the Stakes" From John Yeoh, Chief Scientific Officer of the Cloud Security Alliance
- Really enjoying #NHIcon 2026, the first conference I am attending this year, actually. "Reimagining IAM for Agentic AI: Building Secure, Accountable Non-Human Identity Ecosystems " from Ken Huang aembit.io/nhicon/
- Stop what you are doing and watch this amazing talk from someone who I am proud to call a colleague from #GitGuardian. The level of research Gaëtan does is inspiring www.youtube.com/watch?v=abDW...
- We are less than one week from #NHIcon 2026 aembit.io/nhicon/ I am very grateful for the chance to present a new talk: "How Agentic AI Helps You Leak Secrets And What To Do About It" at 1:00pm PST Make sure you register for a full day of learning about identity!
- Boards don’t want more dashboards — they want proof the business can survive disruption. Non-Human Identities are now an ops risk, not just a security issue 🤖 Here’s how to frame NHI governance for the boardroom ⬇️ blog.gitguardian.com/boards-focus...
- Over-permissioned users, unprotected endpoints, and total system shutdowns. Ryan Bonner uncovers the risky underbelly of legacy enterprise platforms. If your org still runs WebMethods, this is a must-listen. 🎧 youtu.be/HyuqBd8vYfg
- Excited to be speaking at @Chainguard #Assemble26 in NYC this March! Looking forward to joining some of my amazing industry peers to talk about securing the software supply chain. Hope to see you there! assemble.chainguard.dev/event/2991fc...
- What do hotel locks, DNS routing, and CFOs have in common? Evan Dornbush breaks it all down in our latest episode on zero-day threats and cyber risk economics. 🔐 Listen in: youtu.be/ZIHVJj5uU1U
- Never in my life did I think I would have an article cited or linked from a math blog, but here I am, towards the bottom of the post... www.effortlessmath.com/blog/how-pro...
- Make sure you register for #NHIcon 2026 while you still have time. It is going to be the 27th before you know it, and you do not want to miss this lineup. aembit.io/nhicon/
- This is a fascinating read and an interesting example of public transparency of someone sharing their learning process. dev.to/igorganapols...
- Wondering where I will be speaking in 2026? I have updated my "tour dates" on my site and would love to see you at one of my upcoming events. dwayne-mcdaniel.com
- Ever since #KubeCon, I have not been able to stop thinking about how #Agentic #AI has moved the conversation about #NHI governance ahead in interesting ways. I am starting 2026 with a post about my observations on what we can learn by leaning into AI security blog.gitguardian.com/what-ai-agen...
- From hybrid headaches to non-human identities, IAM isn’t getting easier, but Eric Woodruff has thoughts on what might help. If you touch security, this episode is for you. 🔐 Listen here: youtu.be/9jJVgHu9xcs
- Happy New Year, everyone!! First real (not prescheduled) post from me of 2026 I am extremely proud to say I am going to be speaking at #ChiBrrCon in just a few weeks!!! chibrrcon.com chibrrcon2026.sched.com/event/2DYSA/...
- The Security Repo Podcast is on holiday over the holidays. The next new episode premieres on January 7th. But I wanted to share this video with you. Thank you. youtu.be/kM-fJBdRBcs
- This is one of my favorite reads this week. Fantastic high-level overview of what could be an opaque topic, but Andy makes it really clear and easy to parse. blog.gitguardian.com/building-a-m...
- “We want progress, but nobody wants change.” Douglas Brush joins the Security Repo Podcast to explore ‘Dad Bod Security’ and why psychology is the new frontier of cyber leadership. 🎧 Tune in: youtu.be/EjG4uusdB5s
- Not sure if you caught this #AWS re:Invent session about IAM Outbound Identity Federation, but I thought it was one of the more exciting advancements they talked about. Especially since it is free! But how do you get there? blog.gitguardian.com/aws-iam-outb...
- I am catching up on all the #re:Invent #AWS news this week, and this talk is rad! (If you think about workload identity as much as I have recently, anyhow) Is anyone using this yet? I would love to hear your thoughts about this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkMn...
- It has been a while since I built a website by hand. Good old-fashioned HTML and CSS. I now have a list of 'tour dates' and a table for conferences and talks I gave in 2025. dwayne-mcdaniel.com
- 80% of package downloads target 'latest'. What happens when that version breaks—or worse? 🚨 Avi Press of Scarf breaks down how open source visibility changes the game for security. 🎧 Listen now: youtu.be/35AMaBUCvxM
- New blog post from me about one of the more exciting features we have released at GitGuardian (at least it is from a #DevSecOps perspective) blog.gitguardian.com/push-to-vault/
- "This is a story about working with developers, not against them..." I rarely post case studies, but this one is really worth your time to read: blog.gitguardian.com/how-orange-b...
- 🤖 From service‑accounts gone wild to AI in the governance loop: #INCYBERCanada2025 proved the old checklist won’t save us. It’s culture + network + automation now. 🔒 blog.gitguardian.com/incyber-foru...
- Tired of vendor-specific threat intel confusion? In this edition of The Security Repo Podcast, Jeffrey Bell explains why MITRE’s ATT&CK Groups are a game-changer and how you can better defend your org by focusing on TTPs, not names. youtu.be/D8OqV0AGdFM
- Last week, I got to visit #Montreal for #/dev/mtl 2025. I learned so, so much, and it was an amazing way to end my year of speaking at conferences. Here are my notes and the final recap of an event this year: blog.gitguardian.com/dev-mtl-2025/
- Full-text search for busy developers David Cornu #/dev/mtl
