Tag: security
All the articles with the tag "security".
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The First Hire Is the Expensive One
Lean platform teams run on trust until the day they need to grow. What hiring an SRE taught me about access, merit, and the tooling that betrays your ramp-up plan.
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Least Privilege Is a UX Problem
Everyone agrees with least privilege and almost nobody ships it, because the broad grant is always the easier path. Fix that, make scoping the path of least resistance, and the security follows for free.
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A Database You Query Once a Day Should Not Run All Day
Moving multi-tenant analytics off an always-on database onto a serverless lakehouse with Parquet, Iceberg and Athena, keeping tenant isolation as a first-class security property, and cutting the bill by more than half as a side effect.
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Your VPN Is a Flat Network You Dial Into. That Is the Whole Problem.
A VPN authenticates you once and then drops you onto the internal network with reach to everything. That is not access control. It is a flat network with a login screen, and I have written before about what flat networks cost.