Nathan Brossard

Nathan Brossard covers cybersecurity and digital privacy for BitsFromBytes from Austin, Texas, where he runs a small consultancy advising independent businesses on practical security hygiene. Before going freelance in 2020, he spent six years as a security analyst at a regional US bank investigating phishing campaigns and credential-theft attacks against employees and customers. He holds a CISSP certification and still does hands-on penetration testing for clients between writing assignments. Nathan tests every VPN, password manager, and antivirus he reviews on his own devices for a minimum of two weeks before drafting anything. He is particularly interested in the gap between what security vendors promise and what normal users actually experience when they install the software. His writing tries to close that gap honestly, without the marketing language and without the fear-mongering that dominates the cybersecurity press. When he is not testing security products, he collects vintage mechanical watches and runs half-marathons along the Colorado River trail in central Austin.
VPN, antivirus, password managers, data breaches, privacy tools, identity theft, home network security

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