Why I Am Not on LinkedIn
If you look for me on LinkedIn, you’ll find a ghost town or a broken link.
I didn’t get banned for being a bad actor. I got locked out of years of my own data, network history, and technical street cred because LinkedIn outsourced their security to a third-party verification company that doesn’t support sovereign South African passports. In one afternoon, a corporate algorithm wiped out a career’s worth of digital paperwork. (You can read the full, unedited breakdown of this bureaucratic bullshit on my blog at briancolborne.com).
As a cybersec specialist, this is the exact kind of lazy, automated compliance theater I fight against every day.
I don’t need a Microsoft-owned social network to prove my worth.
I hate useless, broken corporate compliance theatre
If you want to vet me, I don’t point you to a polished LinkedIn profile where people trade fake corporate compliments. Instead, I provide real, undeniable proof:
- Direct Technical Verification: I will walk your team through live infrastructure configurations, showing you exactly how I reverse-engineer a Statement of Applicability (SOA).
- Real-World References: I can put you in direct contact with founders and technical directors who have had their deployments saved by me at 3:00 AM under extreme pressure.
- The Audit Blueprint: Book a session, and you can test my diagnostic knowledge on your live framework in real-time. If I can’t spot the gaps in your compliance setup within the first 20 minutes, fire me.