Tag: Lessons Learned
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Cyber incidents love bad timing. They don’t wait for daylight or coffee. They strike when everyone’s offline and your alert inbox is blissfully quiet, right before it ruins your morning. That’s precisely how this one started. The 3:00 A.M. Surprise At dawn, the 24/7 SOC logged a new alert:“Possible Compromised Account (High Severity).” By 9:00…
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When I started in IT, cybersecurity wasn’t the hot topic it is today. It was a small part of the job – patch a server here, check the firewall there. I never imagined it would become my career’s main battlefield. Everything changed one day when our network faced its first major incident. I can still…
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I often thought that IT leadership feels a lot like being part of a college fraternity. You have to herd people who don’t want to be herded, organize projects that look impossible, and somehow keep the lights on when chaos erupts. My years in Alpha Phi Omega (APO) gave me more preparation for IT and…
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There’s nothing glamorous about a blinking cursor on a dead connection. For IT teams, downtime isn’t just a technical failure—it’s a career-defining moment. Whether you’re running a data center, a global enterprise, or a remote oil platform where connectivity keeps operations alive, high availability must be designed, not hoped for. Redundancy: The First Rule of…
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There’s a strange irony in professional life: the more you accomplish, the more you may feel like a fraud. That’s impostor syndrome: When you quietly suspect that your success is just luck, timing, or a misunderstanding, and that sooner or later someone will find out you’re not as competent as they think. I’ve seen it…