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Charles Herring

@charlesherring.bsky.social
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Cybersecurity, SCUBA, US Navy Veteran, WitFoo co-Founder and technophile

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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It has been a great honor and pleasure working with the students and faculty at University of Canterbury. We excited about our first new hire in Christchurch and expanding our scholarships next year. www.einpresswire.com/article/9480...
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WitFoo offers first Christchurch role to UC student, doubles project sponsorship
The cybersecurity company will sponsor four UC final-year projects in 2027, up from two, and has committed to fund a PhD scholarship in computer science
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Keep an eye open for part 3 where I speak to God, "Yes, Lord? Is it time??"
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks to Canterbury Tech for hosting me, my attendees for suffering my jokes, and to Andy Poulsen for being the best possible emcee. Please forgive me bursting into tears 😭 when my mic 🎤 failed and for screaming during the Q&A that I hate people 🤷‍♂️. youtu.be/noFe8A2WD1g
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Tech Summit '26 - Cybersecurity in the Age of AI (Charles Herring)
YouTube video by Canterbury Tech
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Final rehearsals before Canterbury Tech Summit 26 tomorrow. See everyone on the Tech Stage at 3:05pm.
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
See everybody next week at the Canterbury Tech Summit.
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Had 16 Agentic AI attacks against WitFoo today. I've reviewed them all. They are more boring than script kiddie attacks. I think we can all stand down from worries over Mythos and the cybersecurity apocalypse. www.charlesherring.com/blog/ai-atta...
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AI Attack Slop: Cybersecurity's Newest Script Kiddies | Charles Herring
115 breach attempts hit our network in one day. 16 were driven by AI agents. Zero got in. The "agentic attacker" turns out to be unimaginative, derivative, and losing to the same hygiene that beat the...
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
AI 🤖 + Christchurch 🌳🇳🇿 + $40m offer letter 💰+ a broken leg 🩼 have created the most insane year of my life. I journal about it below. www.charlesherring.com/blog/quantum...
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Quantum Leap: The Strangest Year of My Life | Charles Herring
The last 12 months have been the strangest year of my life. A new country, a new way to build software, a multi-million-dollar retirement offer I turned down, a badly broken leg, and a product line I ...
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
How Cloudflare AI is enabling the largest cybersecurity supply chain risk in history: www.charlesherring.com/blog/hard-ea...
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Hard-Earned Trust, Automated Away | Charles Herring
Someone stood up a slick "WitFoo Authorised Partner" store selling licences we never made, and the registrar's abuse desk answered with a form letter. A look at counterfeit partner programmes, the sup...
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Thanks to @beyondtrust1.bsky.social for having me on the podcast. youtu.be/lzfCntjWwg8?...
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Charles Herring || Inside the Target Breach War Room
YouTube video by BeyondTrust
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
iTnews on our Precinct 6 release: 114M labelled SOC records from 5 US enterprises, 158 products, 10,000+ incident graphs. 99.34% benign / 0.11% malicious — real SOC telemetry. Apache 2.0. Built from live attack traffic, not synthetic lab data. www.itnews.com.au/news/securit...
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Security firm releases 114m-record dataset built from live enterprise attack traffic
Captured on five enterprise networks in 2024.
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Honored to partner with SSS in protecting New Zealand 🇳🇿 against #cybercrime. www.govconexec.com/2026/01/witf...
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A nice write up on WitFoo's decision to launch international expansion & research in New Zealand: securitybrief.co.nz/story/witfoo...
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WitFoo shifts global cyber defence base to New Zealand
US cyber security firm WitFoo shifts its global base to New Zealand, making the country the launch pad for its “Cyber Grid defence model.
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I just spent 5 days on a deep dive on cricket 🏏in New Zealand 🇳🇿https://www.charlesherring.com/blog/cricket
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
After a year, we are finally settled into New Zealand. I decided to share my candid and exhaustive notes in hopes they may be of help to others: www.charlesherring.com/new-zealand-...
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New Zealand Move Notes | Charles Herring
BackgroundOver the course of a year from November 2025 to November 2026, Mai and I researched and eventually moved to New Zealand. We were looking for a life change and my work at WitFoo needed to pla...
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Officially old & loving it!
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Next round of ArtiFish updates are coming soon.
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My ramblings made it into @vmblog.bsky.social 's AI Appreciation Day: vmblog.com/archive/2025...
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Making some cool Kiwi friends in Christchurch 🇳🇿already!
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
It was great having one more Cubs game before heading off to New Zealand. The only thing better than the game was the company.
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thanks to Chicago for 20 great years. I've learned so much about life, business & growing up here. You are the greatest city in America with inspiring sites, mind-blowing cuisine & passionate, honest people. I hope to see you again soon.
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I've pushed some updates to the ArtiFish code repo to allow RAG database (Cassandra & Chroma DB) creation & inference, using Internet data enrichment in inferencing. I've included Unsloth optimizations to allow finetuning & inference from home/gaming/cheap GPU's. github.com/f15hb0wn/Art...
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GitHub - f15hb0wn/ArtiFish: Toolkit for genai in cybersecurity
Toolkit for genai in cybersecurity. Contribute to f15hb0wn/ArtiFish development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Last Saturday before heading back to Chicago. What a great trip!
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Relaxing visit to Nelson, NZ 🇳🇿
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
77.3 degrees further south than my sweet home, Mobile, Alabama. One of the few places in this world that this Southern boy can accurately be called a Northerner!
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As far South as I've ever been. Dunedin is gorgeous!
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Charles Herring @charlesherring.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I had a ball exploring Dunedin today. It's a bright & uplifting city near the bottom of the world.
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