My musings on tech and life

Wednesdays With Aspen


You can totally tell when I’m depressed if you’re watching closely. Yeah. Maybe I should move more when I'm depressed.... Yes. For those who are wondering, I did hit 10k steps today. Aspen decided that we needed to go for a long walk today. Halfway through the walk – after she had tried to chase after a fox, a skunk, and a goose – she decided that she had enough walking, and loafed on the ground.…
Read more ⟶

Employee Surveillance Fosters Mistrust


A new study titled “Employees as Risks” - released today by the Vienna-based non-profit crackedlabs - explores software from Microsoft and formerly from Forcepoint – specifically SIEM (security information and event management) and UEBA (user and entity behavior analytics) applications. This study, part of an ongoing series of reports on the Surveillance and Digital Control at Work, examine the way in which expansive information gathering in the workplace turns employees into suspects.…
Read more ⟶

Snowflake Security and SAML


There’s been a bit of stories about Snowflake recently; both from users who are recovering from the fact that Snowflake had no velocity limits on their wide open user data buckets, companies who are upset about their lack of meaningful MFA Controls, and then Snowflake reporting that they are now going to force MFA controls on all user accounts. If I’m an administrator at a larger organization, and I’m adding applications to my organization’s SaaS footprint, the baseline is that SSO is a hard requirement.…
Read more ⟶

Week Two Update


Well, kids, it’s been two weeks since I received the news that I no longer have a job. I’ve taken it fairly well so far. In the last two weeks, I’ve: Applied for: 547 positions Recruiter Calls: 8 Hiring Manager Interviews: 4 Team Interviews: 3 (Scheduled and have happened) At this point in time, I’m fairly confident that I’ll have a new role before my severance is up. I’m kind of kicking myself for not taking the Riot offer: they gave six months of severance!…
Read more ⟶

My Resume Generator


So, After being laid off from my job at Greenhouse last week, I’ve decided to automate my resume and searching tools. After taking a day or two off to kind of figure out what I really wanted my next steps to be, taking a few days off because of a really nasty stomach bug, and taking a few days to enjoy the winter weather with my puppy, I started to look at my gameplan for figuring out what my next steps are.…
Read more ⟶