Kiernian

@Kiernian@infosec.exchange
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Sysadmin for several decades and lifelong nerd with a long career history of projects that started with "Does anybody know how to...."

Now I'm basically a SaaS therapist. I facilitate and enable healthy communication between cloud platforms that have unresolvable differences and don't like talking to one another.

KiernianMar 20

If I had a dollar for each of the times I've heard someone say a variation of "Well, we couldn't make things talk with all the $securityfeatures turned on, so we just opened it wide up and now it's working", I could take a pretty nice vacation.

While this is not at all surprising to me, (script kiddies gonna script kiddie) ideally, this would be headlining every nightly news out there.

https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/unprecedented-exposure-of-federal

Unprecedented Exposure of Federal Databases Pose Critical Risk to Every American and National Security

Over 150 government database servers—normally hidden behind layers of security—are now directly exposed to the Internet, leaving Americans' data vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Cyber-Intelligence Brief