11 Things to Consider Before Making the First Hire
I once sat in a meeting where a leader was making a case to hire another 50 people on their team in the coming year. It’s the only way we’ll hit our targets, achieve our goals they exclaimed. I remember sitting there thinking – “wow, wonder what they’re all going to do.” A year later…
Read MoreMigrating to a New User on Mastodon
Over the past year I have become a bigger proponent for platform like Mastodon. With such adoption, some things are not always as clear as you might expect them to be. In this instance I wanted to change from one user to another. Example: user1@noc.social to user2@noc.social It is possible, but not as seamless as…
Read MoreFeelings Have No Place in the World of Security
The quickest, and arguably most effective way, to compromise an organization is via social engineering. Social engineering in the digital sphere is almost always synonymous with some form of Phishing attack. Phishing attacks, in it’s simplest form, is the basic act of luring a victim to some bait to achieve some outcome. Think of the…
Read MoreStop Thinking, Start Doing
The biggest lie we tell ourselves is that we can’t do something because we lack the knowledge in something or we don’t have this one thing. We spend more time looking for answers on how to do something, than just doing it. Over the past few years I have spoken with countless startup executives in…
Read MoreGoogle Authenticator App fails to load after iOS 14.2 Update
The recent iOS 14.2 update is a critical security update. If you haven’t done so already, you should really update. If you do, be mindful that some apps might not load. For me, it was the Google Authenticator app. This was especially concerning because I use it for Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on a lot of…
Read MoreWhat Are the Trade-Offs that Make Trump Ok?
A question was recently posed looking to understand the actual trade-offs people were making that allowed them to vote Trump. Let me caveat by saying how crazy a time we live in where people are afraid to share their opinions because of the threat of being cancelled or losing friends and followers. What a dangerous…
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