Security Wale

The Uncomfortable Truth About Breaking Into Cybersecurity

Why the industry avoids newcomers even when demand is high

Jan 6 • Aditya Patel

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December 2025

What They Can't Teach You At Cybersecurity School

Your degree gave you the science. The industry demands the art.

Dec 29, 2025 • Aditya Patel

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Goodhart’s Law: Why Your Green Security Dashboard Might Be a Red Flag

The most dangerous number in cybersecurity is a perfect score. Why 'Green' often means you aren't looking hard enough, and how to design incentives for…

Dec 16, 2025 • Aditya Patel

November 2025

OWASP Top 10 for 2025

The new list of top 10 security risks from OWASP for web applications

Nov 10, 2025 • Aditya Patel

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February 2025

Aadhaar: One ID to Rule Them All - But Should It?

What could go wrong when biometric data of 1.4 billion people is at risk?

Feb 5, 2025 • Aditya Patel

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April 2023

[Security Talk] The Dark Side of ChatGPT

Recording and slides from my talk on AI safety at BsidesNYC23 in New York city

Apr 22, 2023 • Aditya Patel

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AI Safety

Is AI, and generative AI specifically, as revolutionary as the PC, or internet, or the mobile phones? Bill Gates argues, it is. Sharing my takeaways and…

Apr 6, 2023 • Aditya Patel

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March 2023

A simple mental model for Threat Modeling

Threat Modeling is a security activity that’s made more complicated than it should be. Presenting a simple mental model to approach threat modeling.

Mar 14, 2023 • Aditya Patel

January 2023

The Cloud Conundrum: S3 Encryption

AWS will now encrypt all new data in its Amazon S3 storage service by default. Huge announcement, secure default for the win, sure, but it *may* give a…

Jan 16, 2023 • Aditya Patel

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Burrito Centric Security

Cybersecurity needs a people centric approach. Mistakes happen, as I realized on a recent Chipotle run.

Jan 4, 2023 • Aditya Patel

December 2022

LastPass is at it again

LastPass, the cloud password manager, announced they were breached. Again.

Dec 23, 2022 • Aditya Patel