Bryan Cowan, smiling slightly, in a mint sweater against an olive-grey wall.

Product manager working where supply chain security meets AI.

I'm a product manager at Fortress Information Security. I lead product strategy and roadmaps for our hardware and software supply chain products. I also own the backend service layer and Fortress' AI infrastructure, and I build the analytics and automation features that make security work faster.

I hold a Master's in Information Security from the University of Denver and live in Panama City Beach, Florida.

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This week’s reading list

This week: John Gruber's verdict on the iPhone Duo, Tesla starting Optimus production before the robot is ready, and a guide to turning a nine-to-five career into lasting wealth.

  1. The iPhone Duo
  2. Just because Tesla's Optimus is in production doesn't mean it's actually ready
  3. How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

Read this week’s listPast lists

  • October 18, 2026Why a differentiated data model is the moat when AI makes code cheap, an Anthropic engineer's guide to using AI more ambitiously, and Paul Krugman on France's growing…
  • October 9, 2026What it takes to secure frontier AI beyond a sandbox, a former OpenAI safety lead who quit over culture, and a case for taking a deep breath about AI risk.

Conference notes

DEF CON 34 Notes: 15 Talks on AI Security, Agentic Systems, and Red Teaming. Almost every talk had a similar throughline: agents attacking, agents getting attacked, and agents standing between an alert and the human who has to decide…

Projects

Content Fact-Checker. Give it text, a link, or an image. It pulls out each factual claim, searches the web for evidence, and marks every claim true, false, or uncertain, with sources. Source on GitHub

Off the clock

Ask me about Grace Jones and AI art, and I’ll happily lose an hour. In the car it’s podcasts: ATP, The Flop House, and You're Wrong About.