You can scratch Cisco from the list - they just announced they will re-vibecode all of their codebase! So there will not be any explots for their hardware in the future - one way or the other. ;-)
My hate for hyperscalers is greater than my hate of being SRE.
It's time to leave GCP, AWS, and the rest.
Google and Amazon markup can eat it. Fuck those guys.
Let's not forget that Google and Amazon tried to offshore us, played a role in inventing the labor-displacing models in the first place, and that don't give a shit about any of us.
I hope they ossify and turn into the next IBMs.
They thought AI would lead to growth and a greater concentration of wealth for themselves, but it's actually the seeds of their own destruction and dismantlement.
Only tangentially related, but recently when I was working on a feature using iCloud, I noticed that it's just using Google storage APIs. I read Apple uses AWS S3 too.
Supposedly Apple holds the encryption keys on their own infra, but I still found it interesting how they are just reselling Google Cloud storage here.
It's also harder to explain to your customers why you're the only product they use that has a security problem when an exploit does eventually happen.
You see this already with uptime. If Github or AWS has a major outage, it's in the news and even people that don't understand software realize it's just "something happening today, everything is down".
And, unfortunately, in practice customers don't care about this inverse, when "everyone else is down but not that one product".
Good like trying to explain to your customers that their data is no more accessible because some api key ended up in a public git repo or since you admin panel is exposed to whole internet someone was able to log in.
With the speed of exploitation hitting right now your analysis will be out of date in a few weeks to months. We are about to have very palpable fear hitting all software vendors. It will be seen as irresponsible to use centralized systems
You can't defend yourself from everything, but you can try to make you life easier by reducing the attack surface and make side movements more difficult.
Until there's a exploit for Palo Alto, Juniper, Cisco, F5, <pick your defender>.
You can scratch Cisco from the list - they just announced they will re-vibecode all of their codebase! So there will not be any explots for their hardware in the future - one way or the other. ;-)
This solving the problem once and for all.
My hate for hyperscalers is greater than my hate of being SRE.
It's time to leave GCP, AWS, and the rest.
Google and Amazon markup can eat it. Fuck those guys.
Let's not forget that Google and Amazon tried to offshore us, played a role in inventing the labor-displacing models in the first place, and that don't give a shit about any of us.
I hope they ossify and turn into the next IBMs.
They thought AI would lead to growth and a greater concentration of wealth for themselves, but it's actually the seeds of their own destruction and dismantlement.
Only tangentially related, but recently when I was working on a feature using iCloud, I noticed that it's just using Google storage APIs. I read Apple uses AWS S3 too.
Supposedly Apple holds the encryption keys on their own infra, but I still found it interesting how they are just reselling Google Cloud storage here.
Or there's some exploit in an endpoint device, and the problem moves laterally from inside your firewall.
Yep, but the attack surface is much smaller!
yeah remove the door locks, the thief can just break the window
It's also harder to explain to your customers why you're the only product they use that has a security problem when an exploit does eventually happen.
You see this already with uptime. If Github or AWS has a major outage, it's in the news and even people that don't understand software realize it's just "something happening today, everything is down".
And, unfortunately, in practice customers don't care about this inverse, when "everyone else is down but not that one product".
Good like trying to explain to your customers that their data is no more accessible because some api key ended up in a public git repo or since you admin panel is exposed to whole internet someone was able to log in.
With the speed of exploitation hitting right now your analysis will be out of date in a few weeks to months. We are about to have very palpable fear hitting all software vendors. It will be seen as irresponsible to use centralized systems
Especially when the customers' own websites or services are down, they are a lot more understanding.
Until the attacker bypasses your perimeter firewall by convincing an employee to download and install malware.
And so? This is true for any kind of infra!
You can't defend yourself from everything, but you can try to make you life easier by reducing the attack surface and make side movements more difficult.
Having employees (or system like bastion hosts) with unrestricted access is one of the recurring mistakes in such events. I can’t understand it.
Zero Trust is expensive to implement and the business people hear "at the end, the systems will ideally work as good as before".
It will take a few bankruptcies until security is taken seriously.
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