Professional Development – 2025 – Week 44

AI

Why AI at Work Makes Us So Anxious

  • Driver 1: Lack of control over the speed of change
  • Driver 2: Loss of meaning
  • Driver 3: Uncomfortable emotions we prefer to avoid
  • The latter part of the article explores what is essentially dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) where you proactively explore strong emotions to create emotional flexibility.

Security

Security+ v7 recertification (SY0-701)

I completed a continuing education course to renew my certification. Here are the topics covered:

  • General security concepts: security controls, fundamental concepts, change management, cryptographic solutions
  • Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations: threat actors and motivations, threat vectors and attack surfaces, vulnerabilities, malicious activity, mitigation techniques
  • Security architecture: architecture models, enterprise infrastructure, data protection, resilience and recovery
  • Security operations: computing resources, asset management, vulnerability management, alerting and monitoring, enterprise security, identity and access management, automation and orchestration, incident response, data sources
  • Security program management and oversight: security governance, risk management, third-party risk, security compliance, audits and assessments, security awareness

Software Engineering

The AWS Outage Uncovered Something Every Developer Should Know

This video breaks down the risk analysis of the recent AWS outage when it comes to multi-region and multi-cloud. I particularly enjoyed the reasons for not making multi-regions easier for a given cloud vendor.