Episode 3: “A Torrent of Pain”
Admittedly, the last episode had a pretty creepy person in it. I mean more than the guy who hangs out a little too long at the break room. Or maybe leering men’s eyes as you walk down the street. Perhaps wondering if you should drink the beverage when you turned your back on for a moment.
Note I gendered these events. The power dynamic in these situations are primarily men controlling women, placing them in fear or some other fight or flight situation.
Episode 2: “Ewww, David!”
I swear to god I plan on actually watching all of “Schitt’s Creek” someday, but I get the reference. I grew up watching SCTV, so Eugene and Catherine are very familiar to me, and I’m more likely to allude to Bob & Doug Mackenzie than I would, say “Friends”.
But, as I noted in the last episode of stories, I wanted to move on to this tale as it carries on the reasoning as to why our little “IT Security” team became the “Information Protection Unit” in short order after a series of events.
Episode 1: “Card Me, Bro!”
Some people like it, some people hate it, some people just like it to get out of the office once in a while, even though they rarely often get to pick the circumstances as to why and where. For security folks, unless we’re masochists, it’s usually the latter, and here’s my tale of one of those first trips I ever had that wasn’t conference related.
This all began when I had my first actual title with “security” in it, a year or two after I moved back from Los Angeles at the end of the dot-com bust. I had two roles prior in smaller organizations, both on the edge of teetering into the abyss of irrelevancy and solvency. My role was at a Fortune 125 energy company in Baltimore, Maryland as a security engineer. I had enough tech experience, and we also didn’t have the stratification we do nowadays to be called “junior”, but it was my first one with that officially in my title.