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A castle analogy for how to improve your cybersecurity profile.
You might be doing load testing and failover wrong.
What are the main barrier to getting funding and how to overcome them?
What investors worry about? … And how to tip the scales in your favour.
What is kanban? What are the good and bad of it, and should you adopt it?
Downsizing and reorganizing can come with some severequite serious missteps. Read more to find out how to avoid those.
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CTOs: Avoid A Serious Own Goal
Feb 20, 2025Downsizing and reorganizing can come with some severequite serious missteps. Read more to find out how to avoid those.
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Tech (Business) debt
Feb 12, 2025Tech debt is Business debt … And the interest rate is brutal. First part of a series of posts.
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How to keep MFA backup tokens?
Feb 5, 2025Five ideas ranked from worst to best security.
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How to Choose a Password Manager
Jan 29, 2025This is a simple guide to finding the perfect password manager for your needs.
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What Makes a Good Password?
Jan 22, 2025Of course, it is something easy for you to remember and hard for a machine to guess.
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Alert fatigue in Cybersecurity and Operations
Jan 16, 2025Alert fatigue is a common problem in cybersecurity and operations. Here are some strategies for dealing with alert fatigue.
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Basic Cybersecurity
Jan 9, 2025What are the three simplest things you can do to improve your cybersecurity?
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Eternal Truths
Dec 18, 2024Eternal truths about how complex systems fail. A must read for anyone in operations or adjacent fields.
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The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly of AI Generated code
Dec 9, 2024What are some good, some bad, and some ugly issues of using AI generated code in your codebase.
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State of DevOps Operations
Nov 21, 2024The DORA 2024 report is out, so let’s take a quick look.
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Development and Leadership Lessons from DORA
Nov 21, 2024These are our reactions to the DORA 2024 report on Development and Leadership matters.
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Securing our World Together
Oct 3, 2024A review of Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) cybersecurity hygiene guidelines.
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Microsoft Secure Future Initiative
Sep 26, 2024Our thoughts on the Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) six key security pillars.
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Part of the Crowd
Jul 24, 2024While we were discussing the recent Crowdstrike incident, we touched on the topic of what it would take to be immune to such problems. I’ll give you the TL;DR — it’s hard.