James Monek
@jamesmonek.bsky.social
Director, Technology Infrastructure and Operations at Lehigh University. Focused on leadership / highered / cloud / infosec / aws. Tech geek, Golden retriever daddy and #vegan. Opinions are my own...
Over the weekend, a colleague and I presented "AI-Driven Threats and Defenses: A New Cybersecurity Frontier" at the National CyberWatch Center (Northeast 3CS) hosted at both Lehigh University and Northampton Community College. Great conversations with cybersecurity focused students. #AI
April 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Over the weekend, a colleague and I presented "AI-Driven Threats and Defenses: A New Cybersecurity Frontier" at the National CyberWatch Center (Northeast 3CS) hosted at both Lehigh University and Northampton Community College. Great conversations with cybersecurity focused students. #AI
Quick video on AI in #network #automation using #nautobot NautobotGPT
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A Demo of AI in Network Automation
YouTube video by Internet2
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April 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Quick video on AI in #network #automation using #nautobot NautobotGPT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FkP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FkP...
Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit, known as HECVAT is now available in #AWS artifacts. Useful tool for contract reviews assessing vendor #security #cloud posture. aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...
Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit now available on AWS Artifact | Amazon Web Services
EDUCAUSE and the Shared Assessments working group collaborated with Internet2 and REN-ISAC, to create the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT). EDUCAUSE is a non-profit associ...
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February 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit, known as HECVAT is now available in #AWS artifacts. Useful tool for contract reviews assessing vendor #security #cloud posture. aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...
For those that need to virtualize various #operatingsystems on #macOS M series chips such as #linux and #windows, I have a small write up on how to do this and where to find the ARM versions. jamesmonek.com/posts/instal...
Installing OSes on macOS M Series ARM Chips
As I prepare for the spring 2025 semester using the latest macBook Pro M4 series, I had to make some adjustments to virtualize operating systems that I use for various courses. While I use Parallels f...
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January 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For those that need to virtualize various #operatingsystems on #macOS M series chips such as #linux and #windows, I have a small write up on how to do this and where to find the ARM versions. jamesmonek.com/posts/instal...
Good read on artificial general intelligence #AI www.lawfaremedia.org/article/open...
OpenAI's Latest Model Shows AGI Is Inevitable. Now What?
The question is no longer whether artificial general intelligence will arrive, but whether we'll be ready when it does.
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December 30, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Good read on artificial general intelligence #AI www.lawfaremedia.org/article/open...
Successful #Internet2 TechEx Conference. Presentations on developing #GenAI chatbots and Secure Research Cloud in #aws Plus 2 panels on #cloud and #infosec
December 16, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Successful #Internet2 TechEx Conference. Presentations on developing #GenAI chatbots and Secure Research Cloud in #aws Plus 2 panels on #cloud and #infosec
Great article from colleague Lucrecia Kim-Boswell, Stanford University, on this week’s #Internet2 #Technology Exchange conference. internet2.edu/my-week-at-t...
My Week at TechEX: Lucrecia Kim-Boswell from Stanford University
In this series, we spotlight research and education community members as they gear up for the 2024 Internet2 Technology Exchange.
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December 7, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Great article from colleague Lucrecia Kim-Boswell, Stanford University, on this week’s #Internet2 #Technology Exchange conference. internet2.edu/my-week-at-t...
This one looks interesting for my #LLM Model Evaluation research, #AWS Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation (Preview), aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation (Preview) - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation (Preview)
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December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
This one looks interesting for my #LLM Model Evaluation research, #AWS Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation (Preview), aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
In continuing to research LLM evaluation techniques for better #promptengineering, #AWS Bedrock has Prompt Optimization in preview for console and API. docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/late...
Optimize a prompt - Amazon BedrockOptimize a prompt - Amazon Bedrock
Learn how to optimize prompts in Amazon Bedrock.
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November 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM
In continuing to research LLM evaluation techniques for better #promptengineering, #AWS Bedrock has Prompt Optimization in preview for console and API. docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/late...
Getting caught up on some security podcasts, #security and #privacy continue to amaze me around IoT devices. This article talks about Air Fryers asking for access to location tracking and audio. Look at your home wireless network to see all the devices connected www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over ‘excessive’ surveillance in smart devices
UK consumer group Which? finds some everyday items including watches and speakers are ‘stuffed with trackers’
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November 25, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Getting caught up on some security podcasts, #security and #privacy continue to amaze me around IoT devices. This article talks about Air Fryers asking for access to location tracking and audio. Look at your home wireless network to see all the devices connected www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Spending some time researching #AI LLM model evaluations to improve prompt engineering and compare models. #AWS Bedrock Evaluation Model seems to do fairly well if you don’t need to evaluate #OpenAI #ChatGPT. Programmatically works, having issues with human eval. docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/late...
Choose the best performing model using Amazon Bedrock evaluations - Amazon BedrockChoose the best performing model using Amazon Bedrock evaluations - Amazon Bedrock
Learn how to use model evaluations to help choose a foundation model for your downstream application.
docs.aws.amazon.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Spending some time researching #AI LLM model evaluations to improve prompt engineering and compare models. #AWS Bedrock Evaluation Model seems to do fairly well if you don’t need to evaluate #OpenAI #ChatGPT. Programmatically works, having issues with human eval. docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/late...
Another reason to be careful on the old bird site www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #infosec
X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads
Cybercriminals are abusing X advertisements to promote websites that lead to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and other scams.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
January 6, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Another reason to be careful on the old bird site www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #infosec
My Data Center World proposal on "Lessons Learned from a Data Center Incident" was accepted. Looking forward to presenting and sharing our experiences from dealing with incident. #datacenter #datacenterworld datacenterworld.com
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December 4, 2023 at 3:06 PM
My Data Center World proposal on "Lessons Learned from a Data Center Incident" was accepted. Looking forward to presenting and sharing our experiences from dealing with incident. #datacenter #datacenterworld datacenterworld.com
Summary of recent releases from #aws regarding AI and building solutions in the #cloud. aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin...
December 1, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Summary of recent releases from #aws regarding AI and building solutions in the #cloud. aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin...
Nautobot v2 recently released for infrastructure as code, specifically #network. blog.networktocode.com/post/nautobo...
Introducing Nautobot v2 - Network to Code
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November 30, 2023 at 11:23 PM
Nautobot v2 recently released for infrastructure as code, specifically #network. blog.networktocode.com/post/nautobo...
Google's RETVec open source text vectorizer and detection of malicious emails www.securityweek.com/googles-retv... #infosec #cybersecurity
Google’s RETVec Open Source Text Vectorizer Bolsters Malicious Email Detection
Google shows how RETVec, a new and open source text vectorizer, can improve the detection of phishing attacks, spam and other harmful content.
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November 30, 2023 at 2:06 PM
Google's RETVec open source text vectorizer and detection of malicious emails www.securityweek.com/googles-retv... #infosec #cybersecurity