How a Missing VLAN Strategy Turned Smart City Infrastructure into a Cybersecurity Nightmare Smart cities promise better transportation, connected infrastructure, and improved services—but what happens when everything is connected a little too well? In this episode, our guest shares the story of a security assessment in a major metropolitan smart city where network segmentation had…

A Cybersecurity Incident, a Golf Course Conversation, and Why No Industry Is Too Boring to Be Targeted No one expects a cybersecurity incident to begin in the cardboard industry. Yet as our guest Kayne McGladrey explains, cybercriminals don’t care what your company manufactures—they care about opportunity. In this episode, Kayne shares how an unexpected conversation…

The Day a Hiring Exercise Became an Information Security Incident It was supposed to be a routine hiring exercise. A candidate receives a technical assignment, reviews the provided material, and prepares a solution. Then someone notices that the “anonymous” dataset isn’t anonymous at all. What follows is an uncomfortable discovery involving confidential business information, questions…

Enterprise Printing Explained and Why Printing Still Breaks IT Printing is one of those technologies everyone assumes should have been solved years ago — until someone can’t print invoices, shipping labels stop coming out, or 50,000 customer letters suddenly disappear into a print queue somewhere. In this episode, we take a tour through the strange…

How a Laptop Took Down a Warehouse Welcome to the story of a perfectly known and visible laptop that somehow became critical production infrastructure inside a warehouse environment — without going through proper validation, testing, or operational review. The system worked, solved an immediate problem, and was quickly integrated into daily operations… right up until…

What a Real-World Ransomware Attack Looks Like: Incident Response and Recovery This article looks at a ransomware scenario that could happen to almost any organization. A normal day suddenly turns into inaccessible systems, encrypted data, and a growing realization of how far the attack has spread. The teams involved have to work out what happened…

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.…

Surviving an Anonymous DDoS Attack: A Real-World IT Horror Story This is a real-world story of a datacenter facing a DDoS attack attributed to Anonymous, what happened when the network had no dedicated DDoS protection, and how the team learned to survive the attacks that followed. Instead of glorifying attackers, we center on mindset: staying…

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…