Tag: Resilience
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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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In IT, budget defense meetings sometimes feel like boss fights. On one side: IT folks armed with LAN/WAN diagrams, scare tactics, and a half-broken laptop that “still works fine.” On the other: Finance, armed with spreadsheets, pivot tables, and the ability to ask “Do we really need this?” with Jedi-like calm. Here’s the thing: Properly…
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Out here, several kilometers from shore, the ocean is endless, the horizon never changes, and the rig becomes your entire world. For weeks at a time, this steel island is home, not just to heavy machinery and oil and gas operations, but to the people who keep it all moving. And in this world, the…
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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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Why Asset Management Is Important In IT, asset management is often misunderstood. Many people believe it’s simply about maintaining a list of laptops and servers. In reality, it is the backbone of IT operations and cybersecurity. Without it, IT leaders are flying blind. You cannot protect what you cannot see. You also cannot plan for…
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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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VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks) are like invisible fences for your network. Done right, they keep the neighbor’s dog out of your garden and your kids out of the liquor cabinet. Done wrong, and suddenly payroll traffic is rubbing shoulders with guest Wi-Fi like it’s a karaoke night gone wild. I’ve had the joy (and…
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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…