1. The Most Difficult Thing We've Ever Done
About a week ago, I was in a quarterly security review meeting with one of the business units, including the relative business leader and BISO. All of us have been in the tech industry for decades. We discussed the progress of the last quarter in the middle of rapid cloud migration. As an aside, we agreed the three of us that cloud transformation is the hardest thing we've done in 30 years.
Over the last 4 years I was deeply involved in cloud security during a rapid cloud transformation that is ongoing (arguably, it never ends). As cloud transformation reaches into business functions and processes you never foresaw and poses challenges you never thought you would have, it is a journey filled with absurd and crazy adventures.
Hyperscale Security
I ran a company-internal blog to document what we were going through as a running commentary, simply because I felt some sort of record needed to be kept. Increasingly, I thought those struggling through their own cloud transformation could benefit from such experiences. I have always liked the 'war story' posts on http://rachelbythebay.com/w/ and thought I might do the same. I even got the domain name – hyperscalesecurity.com – but for months hadn't figured out what platform or how to host...
Jerry from Infosec.Exchange to the rescue! Long live the Fediverse.
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