BareMetal Comics
We have a stellar Editorial Advisory Board that helps us keep our cybercrime-fighting stories accurate, timely, interesting and relevant.
You might say we serve as the Knowledge and Comprehension tiers under the taxonomy of Bloom's hierarchical order of cognitive skills. One more thing, our stories focus on protecting the "lifelines of society." In cyber parlance, they're the 16 critical infrastructure sectors defined by Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-21, Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience.
That said, all superheros and villains are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. They were created with Midjourney artificial intelligence.
My Story
Jayne Lytel has been in cybersecurity since 1993, when she launched a first-of-its-kind newsletter on the commercial rise of the Internet, a time when the number of Internet domains totaled 10,000. She rose to become a syndicated columnist for United Features Syndicate and an author published by The Penguin Group. Along the way, she earned two Master's Degrees — in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy from New York University's School of Law and Tandon School of Engineering, and the other in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, Calif. Her certs include (ISC)2 HCISPP and ITIL 4.
During those early days, Lytel was widely quoted in national publications, including The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and featured in Fortune magazine. Her favorite story was visiting CIA headquarters to interview officials about the first CIA website. Those were truly the Wild West days when Gopher competed with Mozilla, and it took a personal email to Network Solutions to register a domain name.
Tracy L. LaQuey's The Internet Companion listed Lytel as a "Legend of the Internet." Despite her lack of qualification in either category, Lytel is also listed in Seth Godin's Email Addresses of the Rich and Famous. Lytel still earns a buck as a federal contractor, serving a host of agencies since 2013, including NASA, the National Science Foundation, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. During the interim years between the sale of her publication and her contractor days, Lytel veered into early childhood education as an expatriate, living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for two years and Dubai for one.
She volunteers on the Advisory Board and Incident Response Exercise Team of the Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS), an initiative of the International Society of Automation. She is also a National Press Club member.
On a personal note, Lytel is a USRowing Masters National Champion in the single scull.
