Khürt Williams
islandinthenet.com/now
Trust and reputation are like infrastructure — invisible when they work, catastrophic when they fail. You can’t patch credibility after the breach.
Location:
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Professional title:
Lead Cybersecurity Architect
What do you do?
I design systems that keep information safe and usable — security that works quietly in the background instead of getting in the way.
Why?
Because the internet runs on trust, and trust needs good architecture. I like solving problems at the intersection of technology and human behaviour, where policy, code, and intent all have to line up just right.
What should we read?
Neuromancer by William Gibson — a reminder that systems, whether digital or human, always evolve in unpredictable ways.