James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:

Director, Technology Infrastructure and Operations at Lehigh University. Focused on #leadership #highered #cloud #infosec #aws. Tech geek, Golden retriever daddy and vegan. Opinions are my own...

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2025-04-30

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

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2025-04-06

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

AI Cert
James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2025-02-22

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/publicsec

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2025-01-11

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/installin

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-12-30
James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-12-16

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

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-12-07

Great article from colleague Lucrecia Kim-Boswell, Stanford University, on this week’s #Internet2 #Technology Exchange conference. internet2.edu/my-week-at-teche

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-12-03

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/whats

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-11-27

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

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-11-26

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/la

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-11-25

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.

theguardian.com/technology/202

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-11-23

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/la

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-03-15

Submitted my #DataCenterWorld presentation today, "Lessons Learned from a Data Center Incident", schedule.datacenterworld.com/s

Learn about dealing with a DC emergency shutdown, incident management, and DR #datacenter
@AFCOM @DataCenterWorld

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Astra Kernel :verified:AstraKernel@infosec.exchange
2024-03-06

✨Caido: Web Security Auditing Toolkit(alternative to burpsuite)

➡️Client / Server Architecture: Backend written in Rust & Frontend is Vue

➡️ Run in any device(some use Raspberry Pi also) and access from anywhere

caido.io/

#infosec #rustlang #bugbounty @caidoio

sample screenshot of the tool
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Micah Waltermicah@micah.social
2024-03-06

I've upgraded `go-micah/go-bedrock` to use Anthropic's Messages API. This means you can use it with Claude 3.

#bedrock #anthropic #claude3 #aws #golang #go

github.com/go-micah/go-bedrock

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2024-01-06
James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2023-12-04

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

James Monek :vegan: :cloudcomputing: :linux: :python:jamesmonek@infosec.exchange
2023-12-01

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

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Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst