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Serguey Shinder

Sep 17

Replacing an Algorithm Is a Decade of Inventory Work

#sergueyshinder #futureofit #encryption #security

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 17

Approving a Project Cost Nothing, So We Approved Everything

#sergueyshinder #itbusiness #itmanagement #projectmanagement

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 17

The Only Thing Our Records Kept Was the Latest Answer

#sergueyshinder #data #datagovernance #audit

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 17

If the Job Cannot Show What It Did, Somebody Will Do It Again

#sergueyshinder #automation #devops #observability

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 17

The Data Stayed in the Region and Almost Nothing Else Did

#sergueyshinder #cloud #compliance #datasovereignty

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 17

Break Glass Had Become the Front Door

#sergueyshinder #cybersecurity #privilegedaccess #identity

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 17

Half of Our Successful Changes Were Never Verified

#sergueyshinder #itoperations #changemanagement #itsm

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 16

Nothing Was Late for a Technical Reason

#sergueyshinder #itbusiness #projectmanagement #itmanagement

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 16

The Next Wave of Shadow IT Will Be Built, Not Bought

#sergueyshinder #futureofit #governance #automation

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 16

Staff Labelled Everything Confidential and They Were Right To

#sergueyshinder #data #governance #informationsecurity

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 16

Somebody Has to Absorb Every Change We Ship

#sergueyshinder #devops #changemanagement #itsm

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 16

Both of Our Circuits Ran Through the Same Duct

#sergueyshinder #infrastructure #networking #resilience

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 16

In the Month Before a Resignation, the Downloads Change

#sergueyshinder #cybersecurity #dataprotection #insiderrisk

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 16

Who Answers the Phone at Two in the Morning

#sergueyshinder #itoperations #incidentresponse #itsm

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 15

Most of the Accounts We Manage Will Not Belong to People

#sergueyshinder #futureofit #identity #automation

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 15

The Budget Round Asks What I Will Buy, Not What I Will Run

#sergueyshinder #itbusiness #budgeting #itmanagement

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 15

Keeping the Archive Was the Easy Half

#sergueyshinder #data #archiving #compliance

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 15

Automation Left My Team With Only the Hard Cases

#sergueyshinder #automation #devops #itsm

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 15

A Personal Credit Card Was Holding Up Our Public Website

#sergueyshinder #infrastructure #cloud #governance

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 15

When the Leased Laptops Went Back, the Data Went With Them

#sergueyshinder #cybersecurity #dataprotection #hardware

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 15

Ask the Business Which Days It Cannot Lose

#sergueyshinder #itoperations #availability #itsm

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 13

We Will Spend the Next Decade Supporting Equipment We Did Not Choose

#sergueyshinder #future #iot #infrastructure

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 13

Every System Had an Owner and Not One Process Did

#sergueyshinder #itbusiness #governance #operatingmodel

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 13

The New System Went Live With the Old System's Mistakes

#sergueyshinder #data #migration #dataquality

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 13

An Auditor Asked Who Approved a Change Our Pipeline Made

#sergueyshinder #automation #devops #compliance

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 13

Failing Over Assumes Somewhere Else Has Room for You

#sergueyshinder #cloud #disasterrecovery #resilience

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 13

Anything on the Office Network Could Reach the Finance Servers

#sergueyshinder #cybersecurity #networksecurity #segmentation

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 13

There Is No Longer a Quiet Hour to Do the Work In

#sergueyshinder #itoperations #changemanagement #itsm

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 12

Consolidation in the Vendor Market Is Now a Technical Risk

#sergueyshinder #futureofit #vendors #strategy

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 12

Twelve Months After Go Live, No One Measured the Savings We Promised

#sergueyshinder #itbusiness #itmanagement #governance

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 12

One Deletion Request Mapped Our Estate Better Than Any Diagram

#sergueyshinder #data #datagovernance #privacy

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 12

Maintaining the Automation Became a Job of Its Own

#sergueyshinder #automation #devops #maintenance

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 12

Our Three Year Spend Commitment Quietly Became an Architecture Decision

#sergueyshinder #cloud #finops #architecture

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 12

Forty One Applications Could Read Our Mail and None of Them Went Through Procurement

#sergueyshinder #cybersecurity #saas #identity

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 12

A Server We Retired in 2023 Was Still Taking Traffic Last Month

#sergueyshinder #itoperations #itsm #assetmanagement

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 11

Software We Already Bought Is Getting Capabilities We Never Evaluated

#sergueyshinder #future #ai #procurement

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 11

Restoring the Systems Is Not the Same as Resuming the Business

#sergueyshinder #business #continuity #itstrategy

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 11

A Spreadsheet Was Running a Process We Called Automated

#sergueyshinder #data #governance #spreadsheets

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 11

Automation Assumes a Consistency We Did Not Have

#sergueyshinder #automation #devops #standardization

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 11

Running Out of Address Space Is a Design Decision From Six Years Ago

#sergueyshinder #infrastructure #networking #cloud

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 11

Our Ransomware Plan Covered the Servers and Not the Decisions

#sergueyshinder #cybersecurity #ransomware #riskmanagement

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 11

Nobody Outside the Room Knew When the Outage Ended

#sergueyshinder #itoperations #incident #communication

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 10

Our Growth Plans Now Depend on the Local Power Grid

#sergueyshinder #future #capacity #datacenter

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 10

Charging Teams for What They Use Changed What They Asked Us For

#sergueyshinder #business #itfinance #governance

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 10

The Nightly Batch That Outgrew the Night

#sergueyshinder #data #batch #integration

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 10

We Built a Self Service Portal and People Kept Opening Tickets Anyway

#sergueyshinder #automation #devops #itsm

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 10

The Half of Our Estate That Still Lives in a Building

#sergueyshinder #infrastructure #datacenter #hybrid

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 10

Our MFA Rollout Left One Legacy Protocol Open and That Was Enough

#sergueyshinder #cybersecurity #mfa #identity

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 10

Every Incident Was a Severity Three Until Someone Important Noticed

#sergueyshinder #itoperations #incident #itsm

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 9

I Expect the Next Ten Years of My Job to Be Integration, Not Invention

#sergueyshinder #future #integration #itcareer

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 9

We Renewed That Contract Because Nobody Had Time to Read It

#sergueyshinder #business #procurement #itmanagement

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 9

One Customer Name Broke Three Systems in a Single Afternoon

#sergueyshinder #data #encoding #integration

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 9

We Automated the Approval and Kept Every Day of the Wait

#sergueyshinder #devops #automation #process

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 9

The Cheapest Part of That Migration Was the Compute

#sergueyshinder #cloud #infrastructure #costs

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 9

Our Backup System Had the Keys to Everything It Backed Up

#sergueyshinder #cybersecurity #backup #ransomware

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 9

We Restored Service So Fast We Destroyed the Evidence

#sergueyshinder #itoperations #incident #sysadmin

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 8

The Hard Part of the Next Ten Years Is Deciding What to Switch Off

#sergueyshinder #future #itmanagement #legacy

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 8

We Were Measured on Tickets Closed, So We Stopped Fixing Causes

#sergueyshinder #business #itmanagement #metrics

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 8

Every Timestamp in That System Meant a Different Moment

#sergueyshinder #data #systems #engineering

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Serguey Shinder

Sep 8

The Cleanup Job Did Exactly What We Told It To

#sergueyshinder #automation #devops #reliability

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