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I would only take us selling this "security by design" message to about 20 people in our org to make a real change. Especially if we started highlighting the security thoughts we put into our own products.

Did you know that the average public social media user is a 40-something female? The "kids these days" use social media, but in more private things like group chat. It's all us mid-life folks on Facebook and Twitter.

That's a good idea.

Off to Audible to check it out. Thanks.

Another frustration for me is people who think they are saving their company a lot of money by trying to do things with a collection of scripts and clicks. They don't think having a mature, enterprise class tool will save the company money and help them server their end users better.

Thanks for sharing this. I didn't realize there were ring ceremonies for engineers in the US as well? 

I'm going to go with "Security is hard because people."

I think that really depends on how good their Wi-Fi is...

That's both a perfect and awful story -- at the same time. Thanks for sharing. 

thats a great way of doing it. And so often overlooked.

Somebody should consider my presentations on these topics to be PASS-worthy

I think it's a bit of both, right? Gut instinct and data. That's why we have people making decisions and not just data systems. I'm very much an intuitive decision maker. In the long run, that has worked out well for me. The hard part is figuring out what part of intuition is based on fear and which parts are intuition.…

This is also why I don't like interviews that are mostly trivia questions: syntax, trace flags, "name the author of", etc. Sure, put some in if you like trivia. But that's only a tiny part of a data professional's job (or any professional's).

I like to tell people to start automating the most boring parts, and get that working. Then build them out. But that requires a lot of testing and planning, which i know REALLY HURTS some people . That's how a lot of scripts got better and more mature over time.

Nice. Thanks for sharing this.

Data retention is indeed another critical aspect of data protection. It's impacted by GDPR and other privacy issues, as well as being important for many compliance challenges. Plus, there's just the whole cost of retaining, backing up and managing the security of older data. Thanks for mentioning this.

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