Tatu / dTA

There are a lot of uncomfortable conversations going on in boardrooms across America and elsewhere this morning. Leadership is asking questions which make them squirm like "How come we didn't know we had all these vulnerable software packages in our environment?" And they're being told, by technical people who are terrified of losing their jobs, facing uncertain futures with all this AI crap and misinformed leadership making increasingly poor decisions which only make things worse, that the reason this is all happening is because for years they were hamstrung and prevented from doing those jobs, BY THAT SAME LEADERSHIP. Patching. Updating software. Documentation. Asset Management. I wrote a book on it. Check it out.😉 How can you protect your assets if you don't know how many you have and what they are and where they are? No, you can't have that money in your budget to do your work because we have to use it to spend it on stupid things like tokens. No, you can't take down a production system in the middle of the day and we're not going to approve any overtime either so figure it out. Except it wasn't figured out because in order to update it the system needs to be taken offline. And the technical people need to be able to do those updates without having some megalomaniac breathing down their neck asking the dumbest questions like ETA? 🙄 ETA. When it gets done, dumbass. That's when. Is this harsh? Yes. Once again this is a revealing incident showing that all these companies who love to brag how secure they are, really aren't in reality. But that is not the fault of the technical staff. That's the fault of the guys and gals in the top echelon who are supposedly managing all these businesses but doing a very poor job of it. They never get called out though. I think we need to change that. I think all layoffs need to be in a moratorium status because it's clear to me that the very last thing you want to do is get rid of the individuals in your company who are going to help you clean up from all the vulnerabilities which need to be patched in the coming days weeks and months. Yesterday was a precursor. A taste of what is to come. Now is not the time to be laying off those who have the technical skill to help you recover from the fallout. Stop worrying about vibe coding idiotic projects that aren't going to make your company any money and start worrying about protecting the assets you have today. Invest in the people whose work got you all that money you are spending on this AI shit and prioritize giving them the tools to make your organization even stronger. AI models are not alive. They do not have consciousness now and they're not going to. Play books that they are running right now are based on human technical experts notes. They aren't inventing anything new. They are reading what it is we have done in reality and mimicking that. And they are going to be successful in hacking you because you haven't allowed your technical staff to do their jobs which you hired them to do. Listen to your cybersecurity staff. Listen to your information technology staff. Instead of restructuring your human assets start shuffling around money and shoring up technical budgets so that they can do those jobs properly. And stop with the bullshit excuses. Do you want to get sued? Because that's where this is going to end up if you don't start getting your technical houses in order. That starts with everything I said above. And the very first thing that you need to take offline is those stupid AI chatbots that you put on your websites. Your customers hate them. They loop. They want to speak to a human. And you should try it yourselves. There's a number of them working for you. That's how you get paid the ridiculous salaries you make. How's about talking to them for a change, instead of at them? 🙄