CyberAwareness

In a previous article, I shared my biggest failure in cybersecurity. If you’re curious about the article, you can read it here: My biggest failure in cyber security. In short, it was about our lack of awareness regarding secret management and how, as an information security professional, I failed to impart this even to my own family. However, I overlooked the fact that it might not even be necessary. Believe me, it’s quite challenging for me to write about why one doesn’t need to deal with password management, considering it’s partly what I do for a living - helping others secure their valuables. But still, I will give it a try with the help of the Observability pattern. ...

I recently received a reminder from a service I use that my next annual subscription installment is due soon. (Of course, when I first wrote this thought and when it was published are completely different questions.) This reminded me of my biggest failure in cybersecurity, which I had to endure. Throughout my career, I have faced numerous difficulties and failures, but I managed to overcome them. For example, when I wrote a web application firewall rule, instead of the expected mass catches, we only had one-off catches. Or when the software I wrote caused a kernel panic. Of course, it wasn’t my fault. On a certain version of a certain operating system, if a certain application was installed and a certain request was sent…, then indeed, the system would crash, and it affected more than 200 servers. (These stories are also worth telling. :)) ...