The IT experience? - eviltoast
  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    In 2017, I jumped ship to a new job as they were transitioning to cloud server everything. The genius CTO (who was the owners wife) pushed for it, quoting they can save a lot of money.

    Then she fired half the IT staff.

    Two years later and a few major security hacks/ransomware events, they had to hire even more IT folks to unfuck their cloud setup.

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        7 months ago

        Not a difficult task to not secure a cloud setup. And if it’s publicly reachable, you will quickly find yourself involuntarily participating in an automated vulnerability scan.

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          7 months ago

          It’s great, just give your cloud servers public IPs and you get tons of completely free vulnerability scans! This life hack has saved me tens of thousands of dollars in pentesting.

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        7 months ago

        Not really, it’s really amazing how fast things to go shit if you just stop patching or don’t follow best practices