Backups are the most boring thing in technology and the thing that saves you when everything else fails. These articles cover doing them in layers and testing that they work, including the night three backup layers failed at once.
BackupsLegacy systems do not die because your roadmap wants them gone. I kept ancient ones alive for years, including a dead-vendor system on unmaintainable hardware with a database that existed nowhere else, no support, but it ran the business, so…
Access ControlMost security tools are theater. I sat through endless vendor pitches for products with giant dashboards full of blinking widgets that looked impressive and did almost nothing. The attack surface is enormous, phones, laptops, servers, cloud, even charging cables, and…
BackupsCoffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
AI WritingYour phone holds your banking apps, your private photos, and the keys to your whole online life, and most writers guard it with nothing. One careless gap, a missing PIN, a reused password, turns a misplaced phone into a genuine…
BackupsOne wrong line in robots.txt and I told every search engine on Earth to ignore my entire site, which promptly vanished from Google. I caught it fast; unmonitored, it could have stayed gone for weeks. It is the most powerful,…
BackupsFour words hit like a sledgehammer: this site can't be reached. My hosting company had vanished overnight and taken two years of content and custom work with it. A real backup strategy is not optional; it is the only thing…
AI AdoptionTwo creators launched the same month: Sarah handed everything to AI, Mike kept his own voice. Six months on, Mike's readers trusted him and bought, while Sarah's posts vanished into the feed, her fake citations got her flagged, and the…
Backups7:03 AM, driving to a Renaissance Faire shoot with camera gear rattling in the back, the BlackBerry buzzes: what do you want me to do about the computer crash? A cascade of failures had taken the servers, the backups, and…
Access ControlSecurity is mostly dull work nobody wants to do, patching, access reviews, backups, and it is also the entire job. Two decades in, the one time everything broke, it was backups that saved us, barely: a triple failure, snapped tapes,…
BackupsAttackers rarely come through the firewall; if they do, you were sloppy, because the firewall is the easy part. The real vectors are social engineering and the insider, and the insider is the most common and most overlooked. Two decades…
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