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[IT] Salary is not the only recruitment criteria

[IT] Salary is not the only recruitment criteria

Because of my professional background, I’ve worked for a lot of companies, either as a service provider or internally. Salary is often: * A taboo subject, you should not talk about the salary you receive and even less with your colleagues * Seen as the only criterion for recruiting: If we

For an effective security posture

For an effective security posture

I’ve been working in the IT field for more than 10 years now and I’ve worked with a lot of “security” teams within the companies I’ve been in. I’ve been a security guy (Cloud Security Architect) for a little over a year now. During these years,

The danger of Grey IT in companies

The danger of Grey IT in companies

Confined spaces have changed our work habits a lot. Telecommuting has become something more common than it was just a year ago. With the implementation of telecommuting very quickly, new risks have appeared. Today, I suggest talking about Grey IT. What is Grey IT? In a company, in a classical

Cyberpunk 2077: Analysis of an agile method failure

Cyberpunk 2077: Analysis of an agile method failure

On December 10th, one of the most anticipated games of the year was released: Cyberpunk 2077. Personally, I enjoy playing it, but it’s not the case for everyone. With an outside look of an IT professional, I suggest you see today the “mistakes” that I think were made in

Turn off the Internet: AWS is no longer responding!

Turn off the Internet: AWS is no longer responding!

A few days ago, an incident impacting the AWS cloud provider had a significant impact on many companies and services directly affected by this instability. I saw on social networks many reactions, often beside the subject (unfortunately) and I thought it could be useful to give you my analysis of

Why and how I got rid of Disqus

Why and how I got rid of Disqus

Lately, I've made some changes to this blog, discreetly. One of the main changes is the management of comments, goodbye Disqus, hello Commento. I'll explain why... A bit of history of this blog At the beginning (I'm talking about February 2019, not old times) of this blog, my goal was

What the Twitter hack teaches us (or reminds us of)

What the Twitter hack teaches us (or reminds us of)

A few days ago, Twitter was the target of a hack inviting, via "verified accounts", users to send BitCoins to receive double the amount. I suggest a small post on what we can learn from this attack, from a computer security point of view. Disclaimer The purpose of this article