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Dan Kennedy :verified: :verified: :verified: :verified:

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Mastodon @danielkennedy74@infosec.exchange
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455
Account age
3 yrs
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This is my favorite 'help wanted' for a head of infosec position in a while. Scrolling thru, it's the usual player-coach nonsense about owning strategy and roadmap, but also "rolling up your sleeves" and provisioning new employees or something, and then this just slips right in, way down the requirement list: "You'll also own IT for the company." Just a casual, hey, do a whole second job too, requ21 views This is my favorite 'help wanted' for a head of infosec position in a while. Scrolling thru, it's the usual player-coach nonsense about owning strategy and roadmap, but also "rolling up your sleeves" and provisioning new employees or something, and then this just slips right in, way down the requirement list: "You'll also own IT for the company." Just a casual, hey, do a whole second job too, requ Here's my slightly more polished take on the same, on the 'pretend to be a professional person' social media site:11 views Here's my slightly more polished take on the same, on the 'pretend to be a professional person' social media site: "Lately I've noticed the CISO role splitting into two: a tall goof with a fancy resume who pontificates at length and something something 'understands how to talk to business', and someone technical to actually do the job..." 1. You haven't noticed that "lately", that’s been a bad strategy for 20 years. 2. Why are retired execs dropping these "epiphanies" now? What’s with retired CISOs espousing t9 views "Lately I've noticed the CISO role splitting into two: a tall goof with a fancy resume who pontificates at length and something something 'understands how to talk to business', and someone technical to actually do the job..." 1. You haven't noticed that "lately", that’s been a bad strategy for 20 years. 2. Why are retired execs dropping these "epiphanies" now? What’s with retired CISOs espousing t Meanwhile, over on X...4 views Meanwhile, over on X...

📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 12latest
6
Avg engagement / post
2–9
Typical post (engagement)
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
59/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 9 likes + reposts (median 5) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.

🔥 Top post: This is my favorite 'help wanted' for a head of infosec position · 21 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.74 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 6 text · 6 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.2×
Follows 142 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post This is my favorite 'help wanted' for a head of infosec position in a while. Scrolling thru, it's the usual player-coach nonsense about owning strategy and roadmap, but also "rolling up your sleeves" and provisioning new employees or something, and then this just slips right in,… ★ 21
Here's my slightly more polished take on the same, on the 'pretend to be a professional person' social media site: ★ 11 Tough day for the Industrial Revolution Model of Education. Between cell phone burner-culture and un-detectable AI, the 1800s classroom model is hanging on by a thread. Banning tech won't stop kids from using it. It just ensures we hypocri… ★ 2 "Lately I've noticed the CISO role splitting into two: a tall goof with a fancy resume who pontificates at length and something something 'understands how to talk to business', and someone technical to actually do the job..." 1. You haven'… ★ 9 This is damning... "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power a… ★ 2 The DFS industry letters seem like an overreaction to the possible or purported results of releasing Mythos... https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry-guidance/industry-letters/20260521-heightened-cybersecurity-risks-assoc-with-frontier-ai-models … I'm at the point where when you add '-native' to a word, I don't really want to sit and listen to anything else you have to say. The digital-native crap was unrepentant bullshit, cloud-native kind of meant something as an interstitial way … ★ 7 The word 'pioneer' gets thrown around too loosely in the cybersecurity space. Having just lost a real one, reflecting on some of the goobers we repeatedly let have an outsized voice in this industry. Even the music industry eventually rel… ★ 1 And now his watch has ended, and we shall never see his like again. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/technology/peter-g-neumann-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/rethinking-the-computer-at-80.html https://www.nytime… ★ 2 Meanwhile, over on X... ★ 4 I think we have to start looking at dual-class stock structures at a technology vendor as a form of third-party risk. If a firm's leadership is, in a practical sense, never accountable to stock holders, customers, employees, or their own … RE: https://sigmoid.social/@cigitalgem/116563567804418693 Gary is right... ★ 5

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.7× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
43/100
Fair Credibility score
73%
Mixed Real audience
Medium Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

💚 Brand affinity

Estimated

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About

AppDev, AppSec VP, Financial Industry CISO now Research Director. Spend my days talking to CISOs. Tweets and opinions are my own, a10wn. #infosec

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Here's my slightly more polished take on the same, on the 'pretend to be a professional person' social media site: This is my favorite 'help wanted' for a head of infosec position in a while. Scrolling thru, it's the usual player-coach nonsense about owning strategy and roadmap, but also "rolling up your sleeves" and provisioning new employees or something, and then this just slips right in, way down the requirement list: "You'll also own IT for the company." Just a casual, hey, do a whole second job too, requ Tough day for the Industrial Revolution Model of Education. Between cell phone burner-culture and un-detectable AI, the 1800s classroom model is hanging on by a thread. Banning tech won't stop kids from using it. It just ensures we hypocritically train seemingly compliant rule-breakers. Although maybe that's the truly valuable skill to teach in the society that's emerging... 🤔 https://abcnews.com/ "Lately I've noticed the CISO role splitting into two: a tall goof with a fancy resume who pontificates at length and something something 'understands how to talk to business', and someone technical to actually do the job..." 1. You haven't noticed that "lately", that’s been a bad strategy for 20 years. 2. Why are retired execs dropping these "epiphanies" now? What’s with retired CISOs espousing t And now his watch has ended, and we shall never see his like again. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/technology/peter-g-neumann-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/rethinking-the-computer-at-80.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/peter-g-neumann-and-the-hacking-culture-of-the-50s.html https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/18/us/breach-reported-in-us-computers.html Meanwhile, over on X...

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