Miguel A. Calles MBA

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Miguel A. Calles is the author of the Serverless Security book, and a Cybersecurity engineer who works on serverless and cloud computing projects.

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Taking calculated risks

Dec 10, 20215 min read

Questioning assumptions and being willing to deviate from your boss’ instructions can be scary. It was about ten years ago, and the director of engineering took a chance on me. She assigned me to work on a mega-multi-million dollar program. This pro...

Taking calculated risks

Overview of the OWASP Serverless Top 10 [videos]

Nov 8, 20211 min read

This YouTube video series provides quick overviews of the top 10 cybersecurity risks for serverless applications. Each video covers the risk and some recommendations on how to address it. Why is the OWASP Serverless Top 10 important? In this video, I...

Overview of the OWASP Serverless Top 10 [videos]

How sharing an accomplishment lead to the realization of a life goal

Oct 18, 20211 min read

A little over one year ago, I published my first book thanks to Apress and author Nihad Hassan. I am in a cybersecurity writing group with Nihad, where he shared he had published his 4th book; this was back in 2019. I was impressed by his accomplishm...

How sharing an accomplishment lead to the realization of a life goal

If you build it, you should break it.

Oct 16, 20212 min read

You may have heard, “If you build it, they will come.” Have you heard, “If you build it, I will break it?” This is a skill I developed over my career to build better systems. It is a skill that took me a while to learn I had. Shortly before I graduat...

If you build it, you should break it.

Can Infosec Professionals Be Vulnerable To Phishing?

Jul 25, 20212 min read

Multitasking can be a dangerous thing. Our minds are trying to get a lot done, and we might be less focused than we should. Malicious actors are hoping we are careless so that we make mistakes. Given that, I believe a security engineer is just as lik...

Can Infosec Professionals Be Vulnerable To Phishing?

Hacked via your calendar?

Jul 10, 20212 min read

Someone asked me, "I think I have a virus on my iPhone. Could you take a look?" I was surprised. I did not think viruses were technically possible on iOS devices. I agreed to help. I asked, "What did you notice that makes you think you have a virus?"...

Hacked via your calendar?