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What a lot of our peers don't get is; if you work with the people, know when to bend and even when to 'cave'*,it builds their trust in you. That when you do have to throw the hard no, they are more likely to listen and respect it. *I was fine letting you do the thing, but you totally won Bob :)

I noticed something funny about our security incidents. It was people clicking weird shit they saw on a webpage. And how do you fix that? With an adblocker. You do it with the audacity no one has, which is just fucking doing it. I deployed this to one of the largest companies in the world.

My dept. was sold from one company to another. Co A provided all IT support for the dept. They dealt with requests for admin rights by giving to anyone who asked. Shortly after the ransomware attack, my company ended the support contract early.

My weird difference as a admin / network engineer is I keep the Russian and Chinese keyboards installed along with sysmon on my laptop. I’ve seen enough examples of ransomware kill switches for those language and I figure my machine looks more like a honeypot than workstation.

Getting this from you it is a huge holy shit moment. Thinking about it

When Shadow IT Goes Wrong

You absolutely should I've sat through several presentations at this point, and this sort of unorthodox security approach is more interesting than most of them

Taylor Swift presenting at DEFCON would be insanity. 😉

This is also excellent product management.

I remember my mom getting mad about having to use a “safety cone app” to play a video at the national lab she worked at 😂

Right now we're in a fight with IT at my job because they keep updating nodejs on dev machines but our entire codebase is still using an older LTS version that just ended support. Most frustrating thing in the world.

This reminds me of when i made an « official » media streaming server for the hockey games inside our stores when i was doing retail IT. Suddenly we stopped having internet connection issues and a lot less malware. And also, productivity went up since nobody was hiding to watch the game anymore.