Matt Goodrich

The first time I heard the term “GRC engineering,” I’ll be honest, I didn’t get it.

Ushuaia — the southernmost city in the world, and our gateway to Tierra del Fuego National Park.

Cape Horn — the southernmost headland of South America.

One of the highlights of the Patagonia cruise—the Falkland Islands.

Our Patagonia cruise docked in Montevideo, and we took a tour out to Colonia del Sacramento—one of the oldest towns in Uruguay.

If you’ve ever had files stuck uploading to iCloud Drive for days with no apparent progress, you’re not alone.

These are the podcasts I regularly listen to.

I recently had the opportunity to join Super Cyber Friday to discuss “Hacking AI Data Readiness.”

Fall in the PNW hits different.

Prague after dark.

I never expected to write about vendor relationships, but here we are.

11-hour layover in NYC.

Building a good checklist is hard.

5 Star Technical/Engineering An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management Will Larson #engineering, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Gene Kim #business, #business-fa…

This is my TBR (To Be Read) list.

Personal Summary When I’m not tackling security challenges, you’ll find me embracing life’s adventures as a husband and father to two young kids.

I’ve been having a lot of conversations lately with people who want to manage teams, climb the career ladder, and get involved in strategic work.

I left the Seattle Security Meetup this past week feeling genuinely troubled.

What risks does AI pose that didn’t exist before?

I was wrong about AI.

This is some of the most demanding flying I’ve ever done—tight spacing, constant focus, and precision coordination with a group of skilled pilots all preparing for the legendary arrival into Oshkosh.

I was invited to speak at the innagural AuthCon, the first Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) conference.

2024 has been my year for security conferences: CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, BSides Las Vegas, Black Hat, DEFCON 32, and today - BlueHat 2024.

Like many developers, I hate bloated machines.

Cross-platform encryption is a nightmare.

Being vulnerable is hard.

The security field, just like many other fields is constantly evolving.

Every few months I see a post in aviation related Facebook groups about how to file for practice instrument approaches in the Seattle area.

“Kali the Bonanza” was purchased in April of 2022.

Flying to Amsterdam for Alteryx Inspire EMEA, I needed a good audiobook.

My Father’s Day gift was speed.

Flying home from our Broomfield office, I finished two books that completely shifted how I think about data collection: Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself by Wes Bush Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Crea…

Some habits never die.

“How do I break into security?”

Let me be honest upfront: I failed at my New Year’s resolution again.

July 17, 2007.

I have put together a page to display my Google Analytics information for my ASP.NET sites using some other help around the net and a little know-how.

I wanted a simple function to get a short URL for anytime I created a new blog post.

Recently at work we had migrated our web server to a new virtual server, and when we were doing that we renewed our SSL certificate as it was about to expire.

I attended the Open Web Application Security Project Conference again this year in Denver, Colorado.

During my time at Colorado State University, I have had the opportunity to take a multitude of Computer Science classes, several business classes, and a few CIS classes.

As an IT person I have experienced a lot of oddities that I have not noticed in any of my past jobs.

This year with my tax return I decided I wanted to buy some tube fenders and rear corner protection for my Jeep.

A co-worker of mine was having a problem when exporting a PDF from InDesign CS4.

I was having a problem with one of the machines in my domain freezing when opening Adobe Dreamweaver.

There is a great project on CodePlex called Flickr.Net.