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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I had something like this happen at a corp I once worked at. The CTO said they were going to outsource their entire datacenter and support staff to India.

I literally laughed in his face and obviously, got fired (always have 6-8 months of salary as an emergency fund, ahem-).

I won't name the company but when half the Internet went down and a few major services? Yeah, it was that asshat driving and running between the datacenters realizing people in Bangladesh can't do shit for you physically.

It's like that graph: "Say we want to fuck around at a level 8, we follow this axis, and we're going to find out at around a level 7 or 8"

[–] dudinax 23 points 6 months ago

I visited a company that outsourced its IT to India. We were delayed 24 hours because the guy who could whitelist our computer on their network was asleep. It was the middle of the night where he lived.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Two years
A few major events

My god, they must've really fucked up their shit

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ah actually that's a typo. I meant to say "A few years.." implying around 2020-2021. Sorry about that.

[–] 0x0 7 points 6 months ago

Digital karma.