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Andrew Healey
Andrew Healey

Andrew Healey

Security and infrastructure leader. Cyber and AI risk, fundamentals first. Marine.

I lead technology infrastructure, operations, and security at Simmons Foods in Northwest Arkansas. Plants don’t stop for a patch window, and the gap between uptime and cyber risk is where I work.

Before that: the Marine Corps, eleven years in the defense industrial base, CTO and CSO of a technology consultancy, AWS, and three turns as a CISO. Here I write about where the real risk lives, and when to modernize versus leave a working system alone. Plain language, no vendor noise.

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Start here

  1. The context trap
  2. The cargo cult of "Enterprise"
  3. Stop chasing tools, start measuring maturity

Latest

  1. I'm convinced that writing is dead.
  2. Hugo Pipeline
  3. Recent ThinkPad X1 Carbons replaced the right Ctrl key with a "Copilot" key.

All 86 posts, back to 2007

Elsewhere

  • NWA StackA free weekly email on what changed in business, technology, and policy across Northwest Arkansas. Five minutes, every Tuesday.
  • Northcreek TechnologyMy consulting practice. Technology and security leadership for growing businesses in Northwest Arkansas.