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Privileged access management skipped everyone between 50 and 500 engineers

Disclosure: I work on Tessera, which is one of the tools in the gap I am describing. Ask a fifty-person engineering organisation how they control production access and you will hear the same answer…

  • Privileged access management tools become unaffordable for mid-sized organizations
  • Self-hosting and per-seat pricing make PAM viable for 50-500 engineer firms
  • Tessera, Teleport, and Boundary offer free tiers with required features

Auditors do not want your policy. They want an artefact.

Disclosure: I work on an access tool (Tessera), mentioned once at the end. Everything before that is about evidence, and applies whatever you use.

  • Audits fail due to lack of evidence, not missing controls
  • Organizations need specific artifacts to satisfy auditors
  • Artifact properties: separate storage, immutability, exportability

Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Cars and Buildings

Researchers have found that tiny electrical charges picked up by moving water droplets may be damaging cars and buildings like the Eiffel Tower.

  • Tiny electrical charges on raindrops degrade Teflon and corrode copper.
  • Contact electrification causes water droplets to become charged spontaneously.
  • Study suggests electrical state of water droplets influences corrosion.

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