My biggest failer in cyber security
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. :)) ...