Welcome to Trust Issues, a cybersecurity blog whose first accomplishment was denying access to its owner. Professionally, I respect the commitment to least privilege. Personally, I would have preferred to spend my evening doing almost anything else. After enough authentication attempts to suggest I should be reported to myself, the site has reluctantly accepted that I’m allowed to write here.
If you’re reading this, staging works. That’s a carefully scoped statement, and I ask that you respect it. We have demonstrated that words can appear on a page under favourable conditions, with the author present and nobody touching anything. I’ve seen projects go live with less evidence, although usually with a meeting scheduled to discuss the evidence.
Eventually, this will be a place for thoughts on cybersecurity, engineering, risk, and the administrative rituals we perform so that, when something catches fire, we can establish that the appropriate people were copied. For now, I’m enjoying the brief interval between fixing one problem and discovering what depended on it.
Production comes next. I’ve spent years explaining that accepting a risk means owning the consequences. It’s considerably less charming when the risk owner is me.
Until tomorrow, when I deploy to production and discover a new capacity for personal growth.