Patrick Sanders

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fwd:cloudsec organizer. ADHD. I do cloud security at Netflix. Kindness is rad. KN6ZMW on the airwaves.

Black Lives Matter.
Trans rights are human rights.

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Efficiency and bad outcomes

Yossi Kreinin has a new blog post out about how the push for greater efficiency in organizations leads to negative outcomes, because it leads to teams pursuing local efficiency goals rather than do…

Surfing Complexity
Exciting things are in the works for the AWS security research community! If things work out, this will be a major win for everyone involved, including AWS customers! Fingers crossed
@[email protected] @darius The old thinking was that you should be rotating your gender every 90 days for security reasons but that’s proven to be an ineffective approach. Modern best practices are to use a unique and complex gender for every interaction, to avoid repetition and store them in a secure gender manager. This makes it easier to change genders when one relationship is compromised, and protects you against gender-stuffing attacks.

We’re excited to announce the European version of the conference: fwd:cloudsec Europe! It will take place on the 17th of September 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. CFP and registration will open in Spring, stay tuned!

fwd:cloudsec Europe follows the exact same vision as fwd:cloudsec: a vendor-neutral, practitioner-focused cloud security conference. It’s brought to Europe by a group of locals: @benbridts, @christophetd, @karimscloud, @nojonesuk, and Sochima, along with Aaron and @jcfarris.

This crossing of the Atlantic wouldn’t be possible without the support of sponsors. Interested in sponsoring the event? Spots are limited, let us know at [email protected]!

Thank you to the fwd:cloudsec board and organizers @0xdabbad00, @hhopk, @patricksanders, Shinesa, Jerin, and Joel for their continued support!

https://fwdcloudsec.org/conference/europe/

CFP | NA 2024 | fwd:cloudsec

fwd:cloudsec is a non-profit conference on cloud security. At this conference you can expect discussions about all the major cloud platforms, both attack and defense research, limitations of security features, the pros and cons of different security strategies, and generally the types of things cloud practitioners want to know, but that don't fit neatly into a vendor conference schedule.

🚨 Introducing MicroDose, an LED strip that fits 128 of the worlds smallest addressable RGBs into the length of a pencil!

Now available for sale on my site:
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MicroDose

A music visualizer from the future!

SENSORY BRIDGE
Every town should have a cable depot where everyone brings the cables they aren't using and they sort, test, and store them, and when you need some random cable you simply drop by the cable depot to pick it up. And if they don't have it they'll request it from the next town over, like inter library loans.

A reminder: When that major security bug shows up in one of your dependencies, and you need to ship a fix right now, that's not the time to discover you're 3 years and 6 API-breaking changes behind the version that has the fix.

Upgrade your dependencies when you don't *have* to. That way, when it is critical, it will be fast and low-risk.

This is *especially* true about that risky upgrade you've been avoiding. Take the hit now when you can schedule it. Don't let others schedule it for you.

The T Pain live cover of War Pigs is fire 🔥🔥🔥

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=91ck0vJBygo&t=48m56s

It's the end of the year, which means it's time for Hacking the Cloud's 2023 wrap up! This year we've had over 96,000 visits from folks who've wanted to learn about cloud security. For more stats, check out the blog post. Some highlights in this 🧵
https://hackingthe.cloud/blog/2023_wrap-up/
2023 Wrap-up - Hacking The Cloud

An end of year summary for Hacking the Cloud in 2023.

Have you read this before? https://noidea.dog/glue

I spent a decade doing community organizing. While that benefited many, it wasn't a good choice for my own long term benefit.

Being Glue — No Idea Blog

Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.

No Idea Blog