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. As the report points out, employee surveillance fosters mistrust, may be disproportionate, and comes with potential problems like false positives and inaccuracies.

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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. If your team doesn’t have the cash to spend for SSO on their product, then you better build and maintain your own solution, because you have a better chance of winning the lottery than me approving that purchase or allowing our internal or customer data outside of the network: I likely have a SAML implementation – be it EntraID, Okta, OneLogin, or something else – and I’m already enforcing MFA and trusted devices for all of our federation.

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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!

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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. I will say, that I’ve had some really amazing friends out of all of this:

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There was some drama over the weekend on X, where the CEO of Linear posted on her timeline that someone from Carta’s Liquidity division is reaching out to angel investors directly about selling linear shares to their buyers. What makes this even more egregious was the response from Henry Ward, Carta’s CEO – who made it seem like this was a lone employee doing something shady and using their break glass to access customer data. It comes out in the thread that Carta has done this before, has promised to stop, but, it keeps on happening.

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