There are better solutions for that, like Ghostery.

I manage a technical team in a medium sized corporation (~3000 employees). Our primary offerings are SaaS based applications and we are on board with all of the buzzword trends from the last few years; virtualization, cloud, flash storage, blah blah blah. Our environment is fairly small with 60 UCS servers at two sites (full SRDF/A replication between them) running ~1500 VMs.

One of my guys is an engineering rock star. He can pick up any language given a week or two to sit down with it. On top of that he is an excellent systems administrator, DBA, networking guy and project manager. Retention is a constant challenge because there are very few engineers who excel in so many different areas.

The technologies that we are working with are widely deployed. We could be implementing them somewhere else and making the same money. At a high level, we are just infrastructure plumbers. We could care less about the applications. Our purpose is to make sure that they are stable and that they perform well. With my particular employee, he keeps coming to work because we give him the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and the ability to leverage them to make his, and everyone else's, lives easier.

The two things that keep this team together are money, and the leeway to continually improve things. We have had a lot of territorial disputes with various teams over their inability to effectively manage infrastructure at scale. In many ways, they are scared of losing their jobs and are resistant to adopting better ways of doing things. We win those battles one at a time, but continually fighting them gets lame.

In that regard, I think that the author of the article is on point with the observation that good engineers need to believe that they are involved in setting the direction of how the office, and most importantly, operations, will develop. There are too many companies who need good engineers, and not enough good engineers to go around. Therefore good engineers will choose to work for companies where they can do things "the right way". Life is too short to put up with organizations who are slow to adopt new technologies and better ways of doing things.

...A ZONE OF LAWLESSNESS!!@11!!1!11!!1!

Your move Uncle Sam.

Give up yours first, and then maybe we can talk about what Apple and Google are up to.

Are you sure about that? My understanding is that the insurance company will only pay up to the level of coverage that you have. Anything beyond that is still your liability.

SAML repository for authentication so that we can treat it as much as possible like an extension of our general security stance with password attempt monitoring, rate throttling and attack blocking, user lockout, etc.

You sir, sound like you know what you are doing.

Do you ever have attempts coming back from any of your vendors?

Or is the vendor simply passing data back to you about when accounts from your site are used in failed logon attempts to the cloud apps, via whatever their presentation layer is?

A typical SaaS vendor has numerous clients, all with varying levels of sophistication in their password and identity management procedures.

As if the need to ensure tenant isolation does not put enough pressure on the architects, they also have to worry about how well their customers are securing their own staff. The smart ones are doing Federation for predictable data transfers, and two-factor to secure the application layer. Even then, the legal people still make them sign disclaimers that ultimately, data breaches due to compromised credentials are the responsibility of the authorized bearer of the credentials.

It sucks to have to secure a slew of web servers, especially for those who have to run LOB apps on Windows platforms. VDI is being used pretty heavily on that front prevent information leakages. It's cheaper to spin up a session for them via a webpage, than it is to trust that their client is secure. Not to mention easier to maintain and troubleshoot. Staff can shunt the user to a clean session, shadow it, hold the user's hand through whatever.

On the plus side, with a good cloud provider, when your datas get pwnt, it is replicated somewhere else. Maybe even on tape in some cold, humidity controlled warehouse. Because no matter how good security is, sooner or later, it will get compromised.

At that point though, it is all about RTO/RPO which is outside the scope of security. BTW even with LTO6, restore rates from cold storage still blow.

Step out from behind your fear, AC. It is easy to sling mud when nobody knows who you are.

I see the geo-engineering deniers are out in force today with their mod points.

Go ahead and ignore what is hanging above your heads. I have made my peace with it already.

I am not sure why people get so defensive whens someone points out that they are trying to make it rain over California, a state that is experiencing its worst drought in decades.

One would think that I was touting conspiracy theories about the Illuminati trying to poison the masses with aerial bombardments of bacteriological agents.

Some data where desalinization projects did not go through due to greed on the part of the incumbent water utility.

I am curious because I used to live in a city that used desalinization. I always wondered why it was not more widely adopted. Everything that I found led me to believe that the root cause was due to the cost of energy required to make the process work.

Do you have any data to back up those assertions?

How old are you?

How long have you been looking at contrails?

I am not sure desalinization is not viable due to the cost of the technology, or due to the infrastructure required to get the water from the coast, up over the mountains and into the Central Valley where all of the farmland is.

I call bullshit on "the first". I do not know what is going on in the rest of the world, or even the rest of the United States, but geo-engineering is happening nearly every day in California. Jets are creating clouds on a daily basis. Just search Google image for "Chemtrails" and you can see plenty of evidence, from the clouds themselves, to the interior shots of the planes with all of the tanks and pipes and systems for creating the clouds.

The results are real. Just last week we had tropical storm level winds and snow at less than 1000 feet. That is in Southern California, which is a desert climate.

I believe that they are doing everything that they can to keep the state's agricultural economy from cratering. Too much of the Western United States is dependent on California's agriculture. The drought has the powers that be more worried than they are letting on to.

Because life is not a TV and people who deal with the public for a living, especially detectives and trained investigators, know how to read people.

It is a combination of a previous back injury, a bunch of poor dietary and health choices, and a genetic predisposition to weight gain.

I have talked to him about it as much as I feel like I can. Like I said, I care about the guy. It is just that my hands are tied.

And, he's not a single point of failure, but the organization would feel the loss.