projects
samaydlette.com
Personal website, central hub for communication to the world, and proof of concept for compliance automation.
view_on_githubInsightWeaver
An app that curates information from a wide range of reputable sources and creates custom daily reporting for me on events and trends that I care about.
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The Plumbing: A Composable Reference Implementation for FedRAMP 20x and Rev 5
The implementation that runs on this website's own infrastructure. A canonical inventory of the system's components, named in PURL, ARN, SHA-256, and HBOM form, serves as the architectural primitive. Both a FedRAMP 20x KSI signal and a NIST OSCAL Rev 5 System Security Plan are deterministically derived from it. The artifacts are signed via Sigstore keyless and published at /.well-known/, verifiable from anywhere. The paper covers what was built, what the PoC actually proves versus illustrates, the business problems the pattern addresses (assessment cost, SSP drift, framework transition, cyber insurance underwriting, vendor risk management), and the structural problem it points at: portfolio-level risk reasoning across heterogeneous systems is bounded by the missing shared identifier layer underneath the reports.
Tuning the Eigenvalue: An Exploration of Threshold Dynamics Across Domains
An exploration of threshold dynamics across different domains, where the dominant eigenvalue λ1 approaches zero. The paper starts from dynamical systems theory applied to cybersecurity, then traces the same mathematics (critical slowing down, bifurcations, attractor dynamics) through ecology, clinical medicine, financial markets, neuroscience, and governance. Includes the mathematical foundations, a security-operations use case built around FedRAMP KSI eigenvalue estimation, and cross-domain applications.
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