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torginusyesterday at 9:43 PM1 replyview on HN

I had a geniunely surreal conversation with the security team the past week, it went like:

'Hi, we are reaching out to you because our tool flagged a large data transfer between such and such services'

'Wait, the source endpoint is an internal service, the target endpoint is an internal S3 bucket (I was doing a routine DB backup) Neither are reachable from the internet. How is it a security issue?'

'Our tool has flagged it'


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chillfoxtoday at 12:24 AM

Almost all the corporate security professionals I have dealt with have been tool runners with no more than Helpdesk level skills.

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