About Aronetics
It was 1986 and then 1990 and a gift from the family to have a computer. I have a vivid, recurring dream. I climb the stairs in my parents’ house to see my computer in my own room. In the back corner, I hear a faint humming of the computer fan. The crickets chirping and the modem dial-up tones are replicated by audio nowadays. The curve of the desktop monitor running Microsoft DOS 3.0. If you heard it before and know this sound now, perhaps you hear the audio like we do, it’s identical every time.
BBSes once numbered in the tens of thousands in North America. These mostly text-based, hobbyist-run services played a huge part in the online landscape of the 1980s and ‘90s. Anyone with a modem and a home computer could dial in, often for free, and interact with other callers in their area code and sometimes we dial long distance to enjoy a distinctly different ecosystem.
I quickly consumed information and learned a lot. From the internals of Windows 3.0, to acquiring a virus which became multiple viruses, I learned how viruses work. In 1996 I was provided a Red Hat Linux 2.0-pre cdrom while on the Kent State University campus. I was using Slackware two years prior. I learned about Linux/UNIX including BeOS and other outliers (except OS/2.) This includes SCO/OpenServer, SGI Irix, HP-UX, IBM AIX, DEC Tru64 UNIX. The edge of learning was on Windows 95 and 97. Various software was available to learn a lot, such as SOFTICE and others like IDA.
In the 1999s and 2000s, I was provided an internship at Cleveland State University at a local state-wide company in charge of their network and employees. I was using IBM AIX with private T1s throughout Ohio, from Cleveland to Toledo, Youngstown, Columbus and Cincinnati.
Security wasn’t top of mind at the company and I experienced a few problems back then. It is about in the early 2000s that I was found back at Kent State University in charge of the Chemistry and LCI networks. There was still a bit of a security conundrum to solve. Universities and Colleges are much like a city or business network. With more individuals and problems, how can you know who has a problem on their computer or laptop and isolate it for analysis?
Much like a lot of entrepreneurs, I was not great at school. It took me a great deal and two separate attempts to complete my college diploma. From my graduate date in 2009 and my start in 1996, this college undergraduate degree was complete. In three months I was invited to interview for domestic and international organizations such as NATO NAPMA and the FBI. I returned to Cleveland in 2012 without a career or deep savings but with much experience on the edge and trenches of computing.
As political economy in Cleveland took a downturn and the inability to find a local and meaningful work, I had a realization after I returned from worldwide travels. Further, as a creative, diverse, and experienced System Administrator of both UNIXes/Linux’s and Microsoft products on IBM, DEC, and Dell high-performance computational devices, I cemented my experiences as a System and Network Administrator of public and private networks. I had the realization of how to fill the gap in a concept that was created from my years off of a computer, Zero Trust. Repeated intrusions had a to be recognized and stopped. Our technology is a defensive digital hammer for your digital transformation.
