The World According to Mitch – The day to day ramblings of an IT Profe...

Wow, this is an overdue article. Because it is related to something that happened while I was contracted to Microsoft, I decided to add my old (but modified) disclosure.
**DISCLOSURE: While I have previously been contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I have never been an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee, contractor, spokesman...

I read a news article recently that bothered me. It was about a company whose employees unionized in order to pressure the owners to change his (or their) politics in order to align with those of the workers.
It does not matter that in this particular case the owner’s politics align with those I hold. If the roles were reversed, I would feel exactly the same way when I say this: Every single one of those employees should be fired....

I came across a quote I love sometime over the last year: Security should cause healthy friction. It should not impede your users – it should hardly even cause them delays. It is a quote that I love, and which I have shared with my students every time...

In the past three or four years I have listened to no fewer than twenty-eight audio books on cybersecurity, mostly focused on cyber intrusions (what most people refer to as ‘hacks,’ social engineering, and malware. No fewer than three (3) of those books...