The Need for IT Operations Agility: Lessons of WannaCry

There is little doubt that the news of ransomware like the recent outbreak of the WannaCry (aka Wcry, WannaCrypt) taking hold in critical infrastructure hits home with every IT professional. The list of affected clients of any ransomware or critical vulnerability is made even more frightening when it means the shutting down of services which … Read more

Why your Security Products are Inherently Insecure

You’re being sold snake oil every day in the world of IT. It is about time that we just lay this out honestly. The products that you are buying are not solutions. They are methodologies. Why does this semantic difference matter? It matters because we are blindly putting tools into place under the assumption that … Read more

Adding SSH Access for DigitalOcean when Using Terraform

We’ve been looking at how to add a little Terraform into your IT infrastructure provisioning toolkit lately. Using DigitalOcean is also super easy and inexpensive for testing out processes and doing things like repetitive builds using Terraform. The first post where we saw how to do a simple Terraform environment build on DigitalOcean appeared at … Read more

Accessing DigitalOcean Droplets via Command Line Using SSH Keys on OSX

As you get rolling with using DigitalOcean and other VPS providers, one of the features that many folks see in the configuration is the “user SSH key to access your instance” options. The trick is that many newcomers to using cloud instances aren’t totally comfortable or fully understand setting up an SSH key for password-less … Read more