Today I arrived at the office turnstiles at 9:15 AM.
I realized I left my badge in the Tesla.
Policy states: "No Badge, No Entry."
A Junior Dev saw me waiting.
He hesitated.
He knows the rule is "No Tailgating."
I stared him down through the glass.
I didn't speak.
I just tapped my wrist.
He panicked.
He scanned his badge and held the door for me.
I walked through without saying thank you.
When I got to my desk, I sent an email to HR.
I reported him for a security violation.
He compromised the physical perimeter.
He let an unauthenticated user (me) into the network.
He came to my office crying.
I told him: I am the vulnerability.
I am the penetration test.
You failed.
Security is not about being nice.
It’s about Zero Trust.
Last week I hosted family for Thanksgiving.
My 12-year-old nephew asked for the WiFi password.
He wanted to play Roblox on his iPad.
I looked at the device.
Unmanaged. No antivirus. No encryption.
I’m an IT Professional. I don't run an open network.
So I didn’t give him the password.
Instead, I spent 45 minutes provisioning a Guest VLAN.
I set up a captive portal.
I throttled the bandwidth down to 56kbps.
Then I blocked all traffic on ports 80 and 443.
He came back crying. He said it wouldn't load.
My sister screamed at me to "just let him play."
I told her that Zero Trust architecture doesn't care about bloodlines.
We didn't have a "fun" Thanksgiving.
But we had a secure perimeter.
You’re welcome for the compliance.
@ExcelHumor Outlook 2016 was soo better..... a few days back my Org just forced us to use the latest 365 crap. Searching for an email seems like I'm debugging.