Issue 18Nothing here is sponsored
Useful detail on decisions that are hard to reverse.
05 dispatches in this drawer
Backup programs fail on retention dates, dependency order and restore throughput, not on whether jobs ran. How a larger organization builds judgment by testing the parts that bind.
Sylvia Achterberg1,040 wd
A two person design studio lost its main workstation without warning, and the recovery took two days because of three decisions made a year earlier.
Rosalind Ntuli1,063 wd
Forced expiration, mandatory character classes and security questions were standard guidance and are now discouraged, for reasons that hold up well.
Rosalind Ntuli946 wd
Most household backup systems have never been restored from, and the failures they hide are usually silent, old, and findable in one deliberate afternoon.
Desmond Falk1,367 wd
A composite account of an ordinary healthcare breach notice, why it took a season to arrive, and what the people who acted on it found when they did.
Sylvia Achterberg1,149 wd