About
I’m Matt Berther. I live in Boise, Idaho, and work in software, security, and privacy.
My career started in code and stayed there a long time — building things, then running teams that built things. Security and privacy crept in as regulatory complexity grew, and eventually became the work itself. Today I run CommandBridge IT Consulting and serve as a virtual CISO for organizations that need executive-level security leadership without a full-time hire. Most engagements are in healthcare and adjacent regulated industries; that’s where I cut my teeth.
This blog
Posts here date back to 2003 — early ones cover .NET, agile, and the strange first decade of writing software for the web. The blog went quiet for years; I’m slowly bringing it back. Old posts stay where they are. They don’t necessarily reflect how I think now, but they reflect what I thought then, and that’s worth keeping.
Off the clock
Most off-hours go to family — camping when we can, fly fishing the rivers near home. Baseball is a year-round constant: umpiring youth games in season, watching the Dodgers the rest of the time. I help run a Scouts BSA troop. I keep a home lab that’s probably more overengineered than it needs to be. Music is the closest thing to a shared emotional language I know.
Contact
Email, social, and the PGP key link are all in the sidebar.
Funny bio
Matt Berther is six years old. Very advanced for his age intellectually and physically, young Matthew has spent most of his childhood to date remotely leading the sales team for aol.com, where his chief and most well-known initiative has been to bring that company back to its roots — mailing free trial CDs to potential customers. He instills in his team the ABC’s of technology sales: Always Bring Candy. Matt sold his first technology venture in 2010, a social media super-pivot start-up bootstrap web 3.0 buzzword aggregator, making him the youngest billionaire in Silicon Valley and also in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, where he recently moved and has been referred to by residents as an “out-of-state carpetbagger.”
When not fighting the good fight for the 1990’s internet titan, Matt enjoys the Idaho outdoors, tasting Idaho wines, and spending time with his wife and three children, most of whom are significantly his senior.