Principal Security Engineer @Dynatrace. Former Director, Security Architect, Pentester and Red Team Lead.
Joined July 2018
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Want to automate and scale protection of your secrets?
Then go and check out my latest blog post about how @Dynatrace is introducing a new API token format to ease handling and allow for automated protection of tokens.
#api #security #tokens
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Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
My fundamental thesis on social media now:
People are hungry for authenticity.
Resist the urge to have a bot/AI build your posts.
Zero of the accounts you admire do that. I promise.
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
I think that all of the focus on exploit specific detection is a losing strategy in general. Post-exploitation detection is more resilient and if you're strong there, you will catch intrusions regardless of the CVE number. The overwhelming majority of in the wild zero day exploitation I have encountered in my life has been identified by detecting post-exploitation behavior.
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There’s a small behavior I’ve noticed inside great organizations.
It happens when someone isn’t in the room.
Recently, I was with a group of people when someone mentioned a colleague who wasn’t there.
One person spoke highly of him. Then, someone else added another positive trait, then another.
Soon, the conversation had become a collection of stories about what made this person so good at what he did, and how he’s so valued by the people around him.
What stayed with me wasn’t the specifics about what they said about their colleague.
It was how these things were conveyed in his absence.
I spend a lot of time inside professional sports organizations, and I’ve learned that culture is often easiest to see in moments no one thinks matter.
Not in the values painted on the wall.
Not in the team meeting.
Not when the leader is in the room.
But in the casual conversations when someone isn’t there to hear what’s being said.
The healthiest cultures I’ve seen seem to have this in common:
They speak positively about others behind their back.
But if they have something difficult to say, they’ll say it to their face.
Maybe one of the simplest ways to understand the culture of any team is to listen to how its people talk about those who aren’t in the room.
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
A good strategy for building strong relationships:
Go first.
Be the first to apologize.
Be the first to reach out.
Be the first to take the high road.
Be the first to serve.
Be the first to show you care.
Be the first to forgive.
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Darkness is preparation for light.
Sadness is preparation for joy.
Failure is preparation for success.
But only if you keep going and remain open to what comes next.
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
You can't grind your way to success. Effort is necessary but not sufficient. You eventually run out of hours. Winners direct their effort towards assets that compound. Here are 5 things to invest in that no one can take away:
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
The fastest way to accelerate your career:
Work exclusively with exceptional managers.
Here are 7 questions to ask when you're interviewing them:
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
This is big:
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Underrated life advice: Bet on yourself more often. Apply for the job. Start the business. Send the message. Take the trip. Ask the girl. You have to trust yourself enough to take the first step without knowing exactly where the path leads.
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
When I first started managing, I promoted my star developer. They quit a few months later. Their exit interview: "I was promoted to a job I didn't want, and no one trained me how to do it." Here are 4 tests I now run before any management promotion:
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
People don't realize it, but anyone who uses AI, knows an AI response or post when they read it.
...and it detracts from your reputation every time you do that.
Reads like laziness.
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
This paper confirms what we mostly knew anyway that phishing tests don't improve much, if anything.
Best to focus on technical controls that mitigate the risks more directly.
people.cs.uchicago.edu/~gran…
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Underrated life advice: One of the biggest wastes of energy is trying to control how you are perceived. People will misunderstand you. They will misjudge you. They will form opinions with incomplete information. So be it. Focus on what is true, not what is said.
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The bosses we remember:
1 told us our work mattered
2 opened career doors
3 defended us when we needed it
4 recognized and rewarded us
5 developed us as leaders
6 inspired us to stretch higher
7 led by example
8 provided us a safe space to grow
9 forgave us when we made mistakes
10 appreciated high rate of learning
12 were player coaches - skin in the game
13 apologized when they made mistakes
14 sponsored our work (career pathing)
15 led us by questions not answers (taught us how to think, not what to think)
16 in a celebration led from the back, in a crisis led from the front, in the presence of a better plan, followed side-to-side
17 asked for feedback
18 allowed the best ideas to win, not the best titles
19 showed up on time, left when it made sense to leave
20 did not speak poorly behind others back
Barbara Schachner 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
I like AI and use it, but we can also do worse work and terrible things with it. Two articles I read today:
What kinds of new debt are teams accumulating with AI? rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-137…
Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents standupforme.app/blog/some-u…