What a Real-World Ransomware Attack Looks Like: Incident Response and Recovery We explore a hypothetical ransomware scenario that mirrors what many organizations could face today. Imagine a normal day where systems suddenly become inaccessible, data is encrypted, and the scope of the attack starts to unfold in real time. What follows is a race against…

Lessons from a Successfully Failed Disaster Recovery and Failover Test Conducted during a busy release weekend, the failover test exposed gaps not in the technology itself, but in coordination and communication. While production ultimately stayed unaffected, the situation quickly escalated as subcontractors weren’t aligned, assumptions didn’t match reality, and information didn’t flow when it mattered…

200 Techs Using A Single Raspberry Pi: The Temporary Server That Failed A few hundred field engineers. Real humans. With vans. And jobs. All coordinated by a device roughly the size of a coaster and powered by something suspiciously similar to a phone charger. For months, it runs slow but flawlessly. Tickets dispatched. Routes optimized.…

How We Survived the Traffic Flood from Anonymous This episode we unpack what a DDoS attack actually is, using the specter of Anonymous as a cultural touchstone rather than a how-to villain. We talk about why high-profile groups target services, what it feels like in real time when traffic spikes and systems start gasping, and…

Why you should not have a “Quick Sales Tool” in production We dive into the familiar chaos of Shadow IT created by the sales department — well-intentioned, fast-moving, and completely invisible until something breaks. A “quick tool” turns into a critical system overnight, contracts appear after go-live, and IT is asked to secure, integrate, and…

When a Data Supplier Breaks Production In this episode, we return to Finland, where an international burger chain suddenly found itself cut off from the one thing every fast-food operation needs to function: real-time operational data. A third-party data supplier pulled the plug without warning, leaving kitchens blind, dashboards empty, and the entire workflow stuck…

How the World Avoided a Global IT Disaster (Again) We revisit the original digital apocalypse — the year 2000 – looking back at what Y2K really was, how an army of COBOL coders saved the world before midnight, and why most people never even noticed. But the clock is ticking again: Y2K38 is coming, and…

The IBM Spinoff That Is Controlling Global Business And Finance SAP sits quietly at the heart of most global businesses, running everything from payroll to procurement, logistics to finance. It’s the system nobody brags about, but everybody depends on. And when someone says “just check SAP,” you know you’re in for more than a click…

How (Not) To Install A 5G Antenna For An Internet Backup Line Installing a 5G antenna on a rooftop in downtown Paris sounds simple enough – until reality sets in. In this episode, we walk thru the saga of a project that required not one, not two, but multiple site visits before the antenna finally…

The Chaos Of Your Sales Team Being Arrested For Industrial Espionage A pharmaceutical sales team is detained at an international border. On their tablets: standard product brochures that end up in an escalation into allegations of industrial espionage. In this episode, we unpack how a well-intentioned directive to preload sales materials onto devices as per…