Latest / Identity at the Center / #169 - IDAC Mailbag - Labor Day 2022 Edition
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- 0:09You're listening to the identity of the sender podcast.
- 0:12This is the show that talks about identity and access
- 0:14management and making sure you know who has access to what
- 0:18let's get started. Welcome to the identity of the
- 0:25center podcast, I'm Jeff. And that's Jim.
- 0:27Hey, gem. Hey Jeff, how are you?
- 0:29Oh, not so bad yourself. Hey, I'm living the dream right
- 0:34now. It's kind of a nightmare.
- 0:36No, I shouldn't say that. It's really not but I think
- 0:40everybody's experience those. So, last week we were at the
- 0:43conference and then this week came home took some time off
- 0:47because I was moving so it wasn't really a vacation and
- 0:51then you come back to work and it's like they always say A, the
- 0:54work will be waiting for you. Yes, it will be waiting for you
- 0:57plus all the new work that's coming up.
- 0:59So, yes, like I was on the computer, literally, till 11:30
- 1:04last night working and I haven't done that in a while.
- 1:09I mean, it's just was like, a tidal wave came in from like
- 1:128:00 a.m. to 11:30 at night. I consider that payback for all
- 1:16the work you gave me and editing.
- 1:19All the podcasts that we did for our from Gartner, we put out, I
- 1:22think nine, Roads in two weeks, which is like a new record for
- 1:26us which is very cool. It's very cool experience but
- 1:29yeah so welcome. Welcome to the world of Jeff for
- 1:32the last two weeks. Yeah, no, I was thinking like,
- 1:35you know, hey that putting out all those episodes that wasn't
- 1:38too much work. Was it for me?
- 1:41It wasn't. But for you, I know it was a
- 1:43lot. That's a lot of work but it's
- 1:45fun. We do it as a hobby, right?
- 1:46We don't really do anything. This is, we don't really, like,
- 1:50monetize the show in anyway, right?
- 1:52So we don't do commercials or anything like that.
- 1:54Your ability to advertise ourselves know, maybe that'll
- 1:56change at some point in future to kind of figure things out,
- 1:58but We Do It For the Love of the Game.
- 2:00And certainly, it's fun. Well, we don't, we don't
- 2:02advertise for ourselves, but if anybody wants to hire us to do
- 2:07more than free to do so yeah, definitely come.
- 2:10Visit us at our SM.com? Yeah, so I mean there's a couple
- 2:15things actually working out so like we put all the episodes 94
- 2:18Gartner so you haven't check those out.
- 2:20You basically did a preview episode of like the day before
- 2:23of what We thought we would be getting into and then we did
- 2:27like a daily recap from the three days of the conference.
- 2:31And then while we were there, we also recorded specific
- 2:35conversations that we had with five different guests.
- 2:38So we have Louis Almeida, Jamie Lewis gross, we had head covet
- 2:42sand, we had Vittorio Bertolucci and bread to me from various
- 2:47companies. I got them all off memory.
- 2:50That's how fresh it is, having different conversations and we
- 2:53rolled that out base. They all this week and for
- 2:56kicking down and forth. While we're recording this on
- 2:58Friday, the S as this will become our new our Labor Day.
- 3:02Episode that goes out on Monday. The down a few nice comments
- 3:06about people whose lives. We have really good coverage of
- 3:10the of the conference. I feel like that was kind of
- 3:13part of the goal was, you know, for people who couldn't be
- 3:16there, just kind of giving you some kind of inside picture.
- 3:20Obviously, we're not, you know, news media covering it.
- 3:24You know, this session did this or the session at that, but more
- 3:28getting their perspective of us and some of our friends of the
- 3:32show who work who happened to be there and we're willing to jump
- 3:36on the jump on the podcast for a little bit.
- 3:39Yeah, it was pretty cool. I think even some folks and
- 3:41Garner took notice and re K. Thanks thanked us for our
- 3:46journalism. I told him, I think journalism
- 3:48is stretchable is a little bit of a stretch for what we do, but
- 3:52it's very cool to get some get some nods from that.
- 3:54Yeah, it was fun again. Think so you know to Gartner
- 3:58really for putting on a great show but also are some for
- 4:00hooking us up with that sweet. Sweet as you like to say
- 4:03anything. Have a great, you break top one
- 4:05now. I mean, yeah, that was getting
- 4:07old. Keep them guessing.
- 4:08That's, that's the way that's the way to roll, but yeah,
- 4:10having a spot to record was definitely ideal.
- 4:12And we're actually looking at doing this again.
- 4:14I think we're looking at being at the authenticate 2022
- 4:17Conference in October, will be in Seattle.
- 4:21So we'll be meeting with our friends from the Fido.
- 4:23I am It's looking forward to maybe getting and Iran and
- 4:26Russia are the executive director over there.
- 4:28And if you're going to be at the conference, we'd love to sit
- 4:31down and have a conversation either on or off the Record
- 4:34depending on the know how it works.
- 4:35But that'll be exciting to that. For those who haven't been
- 4:39following along. That's the one that Jim ditched
- 4:41me last year and made me present on my own 48.
- 4:45A talk that was all his idea. I would have been more than
- 4:48happy to call fall over you but I was sick as a dog at the
- 4:52middle of a pandemic. Turned out at least a test said
- 4:56that it did not have covered by it.
- 4:58I feel like I had covid like 10 times.
- 5:01Yeah. I was sick a lot during the
- 5:03pandemic but I'm yeah fight Alliance is definitely one of my
- 5:07favorite organizations. You know, it's kind of like as
- 5:12well as idsa in as well as Ida Pro.
- 5:15And I wanted to mention, I put a message on the ID Pro slack
- 5:20Channel, but just to mention here as well.
- 5:22We've got a A special episode plan for Halloween, so Halloween
- 5:27falls on Monday this year. And so the idea that I came up
- 5:33with was, what is your? I am Horror Story, So to
- 5:37participate. So I kind of figured the episode
- 5:41format with look, like what we did with.
- 5:43What's the difference between ID and access management and
- 5:47digital identity. And it's kind of like, you know,
- 5:49individuals kind of recorded their 3 to 4 minutes or And then
- 5:54email it to us. So if anybody's down, I am
- 5:57Horror Story like I've got one that comes to mind my own life
- 6:01but if any of our listeners have one that they'd want to share,
- 6:05basically, just sit down record, it send it to us, reach out to
- 6:09me ahead of time, right? We can't have 20 of them, just
- 6:11to break it up into. So it's going to be more or less
- 6:14of a first come first, serve kind of thing you that or send
- 6:17them in. We'll just try to figure out the
- 6:19best ones that are podcast friendly or we can, you know, if
- 6:23there is one Is that maybe aren't safe for work?
- 6:26Hey, we can maybe talk around it.
- 6:27I love hearing the stories because I think it's
- 6:29interesting. So for my perspective, send them
- 6:32all in and we'll we'll try to pick the best ones.
- 6:34Maybe I'm thinking of one in my own personal life.
- 6:36I shared a too long ago, but it could be interesting for sure.
- 6:41Yeah, definitely. And then, you know, also just
- 6:44speaking of authenticate coming up.
- 6:47That's a, you know, the The conference that you went to last
- 6:51year, we'll have the executive director of The phyto Alliance
- 6:56and Russia are, hopefully, come on and do a preview.
- 7:00He's always a good sport about coming on the show so I think
- 7:03it's more a matter of just finding a mutually available
- 7:06time isn't agreed to come on yet but I'm just getting it out to
- 7:09hit each other. Yeah.
- 7:11Right. If he did come on I'd be
- 7:13surprised. Is it good?
- 7:15Good sport? Yeah.
- 7:16Anders cool. What else we got?
- 7:19Octane? Going up.
- 7:20I think we're planning on doing something out there so octane is
- 7:22acht has customer conference partner and customer conference
- 7:26in San Francisco in November. So I think we're tossing around
- 7:29ideas of how maybe we do something around that.
- 7:32So yeah, we're kind of like been hitting like, the conference
- 7:35circuit here pretty, pretty hard over the last couple of months.
- 7:39Yeah. What I love about the cover,
- 7:40like, just take the photo coppers.
- 7:42For example, if you onto the photo Alliance of the
- 7:46authenticate conduct calm, and look at the Agenda and you just
- 7:51look at the sessions as like, so many good topics and so many
- 7:56good speakers. So what does that mean?
- 7:58For the podcast means we can have all these people in one
- 8:01place. Is a, hey, can you carve an hour
- 8:03out of your schedule or you're already going to be there in
- 8:05Seattle and just join us in the in the podcasting sweet and, you
- 8:11know, lay down the track? Well, I don't know if we'll have
- 8:13a sweet but some area, hopefully the table and chairs that makes
- 8:18it. This will be convenient.
- 8:20So yeah, like a broom closet. Yeah, I mean that, you know,
- 8:24that's funny you say that but a lot of people when they first
- 8:26start podcast, they start in their closet because it has all
- 8:29of their clothes in it. And the clothes do a really good
- 8:31job of like minimizing Echoes and things like that.
- 8:33So yeah, there's a pro tip for you.
- 8:35If you're looking to start a podcast, you know maybe take a
- 8:38look at your closet and that might help.
- 8:41Yeah. Because, you know, that'll be
- 8:43the cheapest moment in your podcasting history.
- 8:46At some point, you'll by mixers and And some microphones and
- 8:51sound treatments for your walls. All kinds of Av services for
- 8:54editing and noise, clean up, and nothing beats having good clean
- 9:00audio to begin with, like that's where you should make the
- 9:03investment. So, if you're doing a podcast,
- 9:05that's where that's where I would spend the money.
- 9:07Yeah, I mean, people don't want to look, we started early on, we
- 9:11did not use this cool software. We use zoom and, you know,
- 9:16people had poor internet connections.
- 9:19It sounded horrible or if they had, you know, as you know, just
- 9:24like behind the curtain. The reason is like, with zoom,
- 9:27it's recording it at this happening.
- 9:30Whereas, with the software that we use, now is called Riverside,
- 9:33it does the local recording, and then you mergers look recordings
- 9:37together. But if your internet is spotty,
- 9:41you're going to get the local recording and it'll sound good.
- 9:45Yeah, it's we've definitely upped our game for sure.
- 9:47I'm satisfied with Mr. Rat for what about Auntie website?
- 9:52Yeah. I mean some updates and so we're
- 9:53going to get to listener questions here in a minute.
- 9:55But yeah, I made some updates to the website, put out a brand
- 9:58new, listen page, that has all of our episodes that used to be,
- 10:03just our most recent one. But now, all of our episodes are
- 10:06listed there in chronological order.
- 10:08Most recent first, as all of our show notes on each individual
- 10:11page. So when we say like, check out
- 10:13the show notes or they'll be a link in the show notes, now,
- 10:16there's actually a place to go instead of trying to do it on
- 10:17your phone to your podcast app or you know, ever might be a
- 10:21little more convenient if you want to link directly to a show.
- 10:23There's now a permanent web link for each episode and most
- 10:27importantly we have joined 1999 and added a search to the to the
- 10:33podcast list and page. So you can now actually type in,
- 10:36you know, a couple key words and I'll pull back episodes that
- 10:39where it's either in the title or in the show notes, so kind of
- 10:42a simple approach, but it works. I was really impressed for the
- 10:45search feature and it's because even though it's like, we joined
- 10:481999, How many apps do you use? Including I am.
- 10:53Platforms, where the search feature stinks?
- 10:56Like, you have to get us failed. Just write something guns, like
- 11:00this works. Really good.
- 11:01Yeah, I'm looking at you Microsoft Dynamics.
- 11:05Yes, exactly. The one that that I was thinking
- 11:08of. Yeah, exactly.
- 11:09So yeah, check it out. Idac podcast.com.
- 11:12There is a listen Banner right on the front page or link on the
- 11:14top and yeah, it's I'm proud of the work that wasn't into it so
- 11:19hopefully people enjoy it. All right, should we get to
- 11:22actually, Talking some identity. We spent 10 minutes like talking
- 11:25about everything except it. Yeah well we needed that mental
- 11:29break. Yes.
- 11:31Let's do it. Let's go for it.
- 11:33All right. So how did this come about?
- 11:34Basically this is a LinkedIn post that you put out there to
- 11:38ask questions from folks around you know what is what I'd any
- 11:42questions they have was kind of loosey-goosey.
- 11:44We got a bunch of different things, from a few different
- 11:46folks will go through these kind of one by one.
- 11:50We pick sort of the best ones that we or ones.
- 11:53We think we can answer the best at least, or at least have an
- 11:55opinion on and just kind of go back and forth.
- 11:57I'll go ahead and give a give you the first one here.
- 11:59This is from Eric Woodruff and he writes since it's a long
- 12:03weekend and one could bet the threat, actors will hope all the
- 12:06admins are out on a boat somewhere drinking, perhaps
- 12:09credential theft and fishing resistant.
- 12:11MFA may be diving into how traditional MFA like OTP
- 12:15one-time. Password is no match for things
- 12:18like evil Jinx to or modish car, which are basically open.
- 12:23Apps that people can use to run like a reverse proxy or a
- 12:26man-in-the-middle sort of attack that would intercept those
- 12:28codes. So, I think the question here
- 12:30really is, you know, what do we think about fishing resistant
- 12:34MFA and things like that, that might help people enjoy their
- 12:37time on a boat drinking. Yeah, for sure.
- 12:40And I think it's, you know, the consultant in me wants to take a
- 12:44people process and Technology approach of this, because I
- 12:47think that the first part of his question was geared towards it's
- 12:51a holiday weekend. And the hackers.
- 12:54Like we think the hackers like to try to exploit the fact that
- 13:00admins are not going to be around, I mean, that's always
- 13:02been something we've said, I don't know if the data actually
- 13:06supports that that more hacks happened before a three-day
- 13:11weekend or something, but let's assume that that's correct.
- 13:14I think it is that, you know, the first thing is you have ever
- 13:20if everybody goes out on a boat and Shrinking and nobody's going
- 13:25to be able to take the call and jump on it and that's a problem,
- 13:28right? So that people standpoint has to
- 13:31be that somebody's ready to jump in, if you know, the world goes
- 13:36to hell in a handbasket, you know?
- 13:40Then I think that the process, I'd really what we're getting at
- 13:43here with the fishing campaigns is people keep falling for
- 13:49fishing campaigns. They're clicking links in emails
- 13:53to go to what it looks like Instagram or there.
- 13:57You know. And look, I understand some of
- 13:59these things are getting really sophisticated.
- 14:02You know, they send you an email looks legit, you click the link
- 14:06and the login page looks legit. However, if you were smart
- 14:12enough or I should leave smart enough, let's say educated
- 14:15enough for you. Have this built-in And you go
- 14:18and look at the URL bar, you can see you're not on the real
- 14:23instagram.com or whatever the pages that they're trying to
- 14:27fool you when you look at this. But even that's assuming that
- 14:30you've got your browser configure to actually show the
- 14:32full URL I guess I'm gonna bug me about Safari is by default it
- 14:36hides, the full You full URL. It just shows the first part of
- 14:39it or maybe just the base of the domain.
- 14:41You know. I think these are things that
- 14:43yes, you know, we hope that we wouldn't fall for fishing but
- 14:47there is a reason it is So popular because it works.
- 14:50Yeah, I kind of feel like I have to built this little fish.
- 14:54I'm in this industry and everything, but I've also worked
- 14:58for a few companies now that I've really had, you know,
- 15:01awareness campaigns and I feel like I'm more aware because of
- 15:05this awareness campaigns, I'm more suspicious when I see
- 15:08something less likely to click on the link.
- 15:11So that's kind of the process. I'd and I think what what Eric
- 15:17is also Up in terms of technology is there's some
- 15:24there's some multi-factor authentication methods that are
- 15:28stronger than others. Obviously leveraging a one-time
- 15:32password through SMS or email that's like the that's the low
- 15:37end of the spectrum versus doing some kind of certificate based
- 15:43or you know, biometric or something.
- 15:47That That can't be captured with a man in the middle attack.
- 15:52We don't have the monkey like how one-time passwords are.
- 15:56Look any MFA is still better than no one will say, right.
- 16:00But things like SMS for example has been specifically called out
- 16:04as like the Bottom Rung of the MFA tree.
- 16:08It is probably the most easily intercepted breached you know
- 16:12cracked whatever you know whatever term you want to use.
- 16:14The basically say yeah, the MFA went to the wrong person or was
- 16:16intercepted. When do you think SMS as a
- 16:21one-time one-time password approach, or MFA approach
- 16:26becomes no longer prevalent, because I feel like it's still
- 16:30the number one method like every single app seems like, yeah,
- 16:32that's like it defaults to is, like, the minimum viable
- 16:35product. When people are rolling out MFA,
- 16:38when do you think it will be that?
- 16:40That is no longer the case. Are we talking two years?
- 16:43Five years, ten years, never, oh, no, Kind of feels like that
- 16:49never because I don't think it's in the foreseeable future but I
- 16:52think what could get it there as kind of the that 52 approach
- 16:57where if the device makers make it so easy to use the biometric?
- 17:04I mean it's kind of gotten there, but I I think so.
- 17:07Look in terms of MFA to me, there's different levels,
- 17:12there's the low rung, like we talked about the one-time
- 17:15password all the way up to something like You became, but
- 17:21you can't expect people to use a UV key to go shopping on Amazon
- 17:26or, you know, something like that.
- 17:28So, you know, per carry one around and plug it into their
- 17:31phone. Like that's not normal.
- 17:33People don't do that, right, but could you?
- 17:35Yeah, exactly. But could you do that for
- 17:39high-stake transactions, connecting to a VPN or doing
- 17:45some kind of online banking for it.
- 17:48In certain scenarios, I think it is reasonable, but I think
- 17:51there's always going to be those lower risks use cases.
- 17:54And I mean, heck, we know, there are still sites out there that
- 17:58aren't even at that level of using it as mess.
- 18:01So I think it's really the level of assurance that's required.
- 18:07And there's always gonna be there's low level Assurance use
- 18:09cases, where SMS will be good enough I guess as that's kind of
- 18:16a pessimistic View. I think that's the the
- 18:19technology side is that you got to go up the ladder in terms of
- 18:23level of assurance, if they use cases higher and I think they
- 18:27need to think about a critically.
- 18:28Like if getting into the VPN is low level Assurance then
- 18:33somebody could escalate to a higher level account.
- 18:36So if only requiring like a higher level account for our
- 18:40higher level of assurance for an admin account, what if somebody
- 18:44gets into the vpm as a low-level account and then Then somehow is
- 18:48able to elevate their privileges or Elevate to another account.
- 18:53Yeah. I mean, you were talking.
- 18:55You know what? Take a risk-based approach.
- 18:56I think to it again. MFA still better than nothing.
- 18:59Yes, traditional MFA. Which is really the question,
- 19:03right? Is that as good as stronger,
- 19:06what versions know. Is it more fishing resistant?
- 19:10MFA, yes, but I don't know if we're there yet.
- 19:12So like, you talk about my certificates and really, I think
- 19:14now, we're starting again to like pass keys on devices, which
- 19:17is sort of a new kind of Fido standard.
- 19:19I don't remember the exact technical term Vittorio.
- 19:22Helped us out. Yeah, Last week when recording,
- 19:24but there are certainly a lot, it's a mouthful.
- 19:26So I prefer passkeys as a name, it's still better than nothing
- 19:31it. But the end the day, you know,
- 19:34how do these man-in-the-middle attacks work?
- 19:36Is they trick you into going to a nefarious website.
- 19:39So security awareness training for sure.
- 19:41Right, making where that doing random fishing camp, simulated
- 19:45fishing campaigns. Right?
- 19:46Kind of checking up on your, on your employees and things like
- 19:49that dry. If you are a customer
- 19:50environment, making them aware of where they Can and can't get
- 19:54help from what they should be looking for, you know, giving
- 19:57tips on looking at the, you know, the full URL watching for
- 20:00misspelled or, you know, domain squatters right.
- 20:03Things like that. I think is always a concern, but
- 20:07that, I think, I think it's my two cents about.
- 20:09I think we, I think we've beaten that one up.
- 20:10Pretty good. Okay, so let's move on to the
- 20:14next question. I was submitted by Ian saying,
- 20:17and it goes like this. Why does modernization always
- 20:21seem to stop at today's Standards preparing for what's
- 20:26next. Seems to be punted to the next
- 20:29round of quote-unquote modernization.
- 20:33I think it's because we are still playing catch-up for the
- 20:36most part. Like, if you're doing
- 20:38modernization, I think that is a thinly veiled, excuse to bring
- 20:42your whatever you're trying to modernize technology process.
- 20:46Whatever might be into something that you probably should have
- 20:49done like five years ago, maybe even 10 years ago, say feel like
- 20:53organizations are for the most part, not on The Cutting Edge of
- 20:57the technology. They are doing, just enough to
- 21:00get by to either make the business run at the most cost
- 21:04efficient way possible because bleeding edge is usually
- 21:06expensive usually introduces more risk you know it would be
- 21:11nice to be you know more modern I think as a as an organization
- 21:16when it comes to the technology and services you're putting out
- 21:18there but I think of things like password list that we're seeing
- 21:21such rapid iteration. Roo not only the use cases of
- 21:25how it actually works and keep things secure, but also the
- 21:28methods of delivery, you know, things like that, where you
- 21:32could call it modern. Yeah.
- 21:33We were modern two years ago when we first started.
- 21:35Look at password list. And now, what are we looking at
- 21:38now? We're get past keys.
- 21:40So, okay, so what's your definition of modern because it
- 21:44keeps changing and how often do you continually upgrade the
- 21:48technology that you've got to stay modern.
- 21:51It's too expensive to do that. So I feel like you know, the
- 21:55reason it doesn't happen is money.
- 21:57Most organizations don't have budgets to install.
- 22:00A brand new ID P, MF a conditional adaptive password
- 22:06lists identity governance privileged access management,
- 22:09Cloud infrastructure and title that management, like all this
- 22:12stuff. They can't do this every year so
- 22:14you go in Cycles. It's basically okay, you're
- 22:16buying a product. Let's hope to get five years out
- 22:18of it before we even think about trying to do a replacement or to
- 22:21do a major upgrade or something like that.
- 22:23Unless there is a very clear, reason I clear and present
- 22:26danger or some sort of unmitigated evil risk or audit
- 22:31finding where it forces you to do it it comes down to money.
- 22:35What do you think? Yeah, I think I think
- 22:39improvements and standards the way I took those was, you know,
- 22:44I think it's very reliant on upgrades to Hardware.
- 22:50So for talking about like, you know, Omer Technologies like
- 22:54iPhones and things like that. Think about how fast they move
- 22:58from version to version, but then there are still people who
- 23:01are on older iPhones back. There are some people, like I
- 23:05had a painter, come and paint my house.
- 23:08I asked him if we could use like cash app or then know, I was
- 23:13pretty much open to whatever your I don't have any of that.
- 23:16And he had a flip phone and he's taking pictures of the place of
- 23:19the flip phone. I'm thinking, oh my goodness,
- 23:21this guy. So out of date, the Is like, you
- 23:24know the bank that I go to wants to do business with him just as
- 23:28much as they want to do business with me even those Technologies
- 23:32out of date. So they, you know, the standards
- 23:35have to take into account all the folks who have the old
- 23:40technology and then I think the I think the other thing is that,
- 23:45you know, the responsibility to be secure.
- 23:50Generally does not fall on the end-user.
- 23:53Al's on the company, providing the service.
- 23:55So you know if you say whose responsibility is it to keep my
- 23:59account at Wells Fargo secure is it my responsibility or Wells
- 24:04Fargo? Most people say it's Wells,
- 24:05Fargo's responsibility, my password needs to be as long as
- 24:09what they say, it needs to be. And my multi-factor has got to
- 24:12be whatever they say, it needs to be and I'm going to, I have
- 24:16to follow those rules if I went access but they try to keep my
- 24:21data secure, it's not my responsibility.
- 24:23Now you and I may see it differently because we're in
- 24:26this industry. I think, you know, the
- 24:29quote-unquote man on the street and it feels like the
- 24:32responsibility lies on the company, that's providing it
- 24:37now. So they've got the
- 24:39responsibility for security and they don't want to alienate
- 24:42customers that don't have the technology.
- 24:44So if Wells Fargo, all of a sudden said, the only people who
- 24:47can access their account are people who have, you know, this
- 24:50biometric support from this version.
- 24:53So basically if you have an iPhone 7, you can't be a
- 24:56customer here anymore. You need to withdraw your
- 24:58millions of dollars from our bank because we don't want you
- 25:01here. That's not going to happen.
- 25:03So that's good. That's that's that.
- 25:04That is not going to fly. That's not going to happen.
- 25:06So that's my feeling is, like, that's the holding back
- 25:09modernization is old Hardware. Old Hardware.
- 25:15I can see that. I mean, I still think money is
- 25:16the answer. Well, yeah, I mean it always
- 25:20ties back to mommy's home. All right.
- 25:22Sure, do the next one. Yeah, let's do the next one.
- 25:25Okay, so this is from our guy. Chris power, who we actually
- 25:28we're able to meet out at Gartner.
- 25:30Chris is a big Sox fan meeting like actually on your feet
- 25:34socks. So kudos to him for that and
- 25:37collecting socks off by Gartner. He actually came up with a
- 25:40bunch. So I'm going to try to
- 25:41paraphrase some of these can Jumping on the socks thing
- 25:44before you go any further, I got.
- 25:45So I kind of felt like after that conversation with him was
- 25:48like this is the first time that I've ever heard somebody going
- 25:52to the vendor Hall. I kind of like scoping the place
- 25:54out to find something wear socks.
- 25:57So if you're listening and you do a booth at a conference, you
- 26:01know Sox, might be a good giveaway.
- 26:04Yeah, I think it's interesting because I know he is, it sounds
- 26:07like he's into it. I think Ian Glaser from
- 26:10Salesforce has also into it and then Someone else I read his.
- 26:14I was all unlike my LinkedIn or Twitter feeds and stuff like
- 26:16that. Where I saw people comparing
- 26:19security-related socks. So there is definitely a market
- 26:22out there for socks now. Didn't we?
- 26:25Look at like the possibility of socks that they're, you know,
- 26:28getting custom Sox's not a trivial matter right there,
- 26:31expensive. Any type of merchandise is
- 26:34expensive weave. We are looking at it.
- 26:36I think trying to figure out how that would work, but at least of
- 26:40decent quality. Can you get some paper thin
- 26:42socks from Some low quality type thing probably, but it's going
- 26:47to do it. Do it right man.
- 26:48Spend the money. That's right.
- 26:50Anyway, so shout-out to Chris. So his question is really
- 26:54looking at the best ways to manage layered access.
- 26:59So, by layered access, what he means and he gives an example is
- 27:02application. A is managed by the I am team to
- 27:06get into it. Initially let's say something
- 27:08your single sign. Alright.
- 27:08So basically like the authentication is controlled by
- 27:12one team. But once you're inside the
- 27:14application, the application and once you're inside that
- 27:17application, there are other entitlements or access controls,
- 27:21maybe your administrator or powers or something like that,
- 27:23where you can gain additional access within that application.
- 27:28So, you know, the perspective he's taking here is we've taken
- 27:31the position that business owners and vendors who have this
- 27:34ability to take on the responsibility.
- 27:38Meaning the ability to escalate within a specific application,
- 27:42take on the responsibility. And the audit findings that come
- 27:44from adding access, when they surpass or go around the I am
- 27:48team, this release is me and this case Chris from the
- 27:52response from that responsibility on paper, but not
- 27:55from the threat and the risk that these business and vendors
- 27:59these businesses and vendors making changes on their own, if
- 28:03something would happen to occur the call to resolve, it would
- 28:06start with the IM team, of course rights like, hey, why
- 28:09does someone have incorrect access to your application?
- 28:11Well, let's start with the top of the chain.
- 28:13Jane and then you start doing this, you know, root cause
- 28:16analysis and said, oh well we only control one part of the
- 28:19authentication. Someone else is controlling it.
- 28:21What are your thoughts on the management of that layering of
- 28:25access? So my thoughts on managing I am
- 28:31managing access period. Is that the business makes the
- 28:35decision on who gets access to what and I am team provides the
- 28:41tools to do that in a Controlled fashion.
- 28:44So even the example he gave is saying, okay well I am team
- 28:49manages the single sign-on so ultimately you know to get
- 28:53single sign-on to an app. They don't give everybody a
- 28:55single sign-on to every app, right?
- 28:57Ellie Give the apps that you need.
- 29:00Well, who's going to decide who would apps?
- 29:03Jeff Steadman needs access to what groups he goes into an
- 29:07active directory. That enable him to see that icon
- 29:11in his single sign-on. That's Would be the business.
- 29:16What I also think is like when you gets to entitlements, it's
- 29:21really then finer grain. Either groups in active
- 29:24directory or maybe is provision into the application with
- 29:29certain entitlements. Whether it's groups or some
- 29:32other attributes that drive access typically use a tool like
- 29:37identity governance and administration like a South
- 29:40points, avian omata, you know, along those lines, I'll Amos or
- 29:45clear sky. I that can narrow name every
- 29:48single idea by somebody else, right?
- 29:51But the idea being that it goes to the business and the business
- 29:58I person in the business decide? Yes, you get access or no, you
- 30:02don't get access and then the system ideally if it's fully,
- 30:07automated, would provision that backs us.
- 30:09It doesn't, it's going to issue a ticket, but then ultimately,
- 30:13if there's a breakdown, like, somebody gets a ticket.
- 30:15It and doesn't follow the ticket or they provide access.
- 30:19That shouldn't be given, if you have the right Tools in place
- 30:22from, I am perspective that have that automation or issue a
- 30:26ticket. And someone breaks process, you
- 30:29have to be able to identify who broke process, but it sounds to
- 30:33me, like what Chris is saying is that they've got a single
- 30:38sign-on tool, but they don't have an IGA system in place.
- 30:42While could be that but I think what happens in the real world,
- 30:45too. You might have the single
- 30:46sign-on tool but you don't actually control the permissions
- 30:49within the application itself. Like sap might be a good example
- 30:53where there's like an sap team who is responsible for
- 30:57maintaining access within sap but the front door might be
- 31:01controlled through an active directory authentication.
- 31:03For example. So I think that's the risk.
- 31:06Right? Is okay.
- 31:07Well the I am team is doing the right thing.
- 31:08They have like defined processes but somewhere along the way the
- 31:12business decided that they did not want to hand over.
- 31:15The provisioning of the actual entitlements within the specific
- 31:19application to a centralized team that does that work, or
- 31:23that centralized team doesn't have policies or standards or
- 31:27things like that, that align with sort of the organizational.
- 31:30I am policies. So I see Chris's Point here is
- 31:33like, okay, well, we can only control so far because we're
- 31:36only doing this part. We're only really doing the
- 31:39authentication part of it. The authorizations are being
- 31:41managed by someone else in their own application that we do not.
- 31:45Have connectivity to into or integration, for example.
- 31:49So I can have an IGA tool, but I might not have a connector that
- 31:53is provisioning, the actual permissions within the account,
- 31:57they happens quite a bit. Right.
- 31:58So I think you know, from a risk perspective the risk doesn't go
- 32:01away, it becomes a business decision to say.
- 32:04Okay well how do we want to manage the risk to your point?
- 32:06I think the business owns the risk.
- 32:08They have made the decision not to integrate with the Enterprise
- 32:12standard identity and access management.
- 32:15Meant system to the, to the degree, that absolves the
- 32:19business from complying with their audit requirements.
- 32:22Like, that's something about was take back to say, okay, well,
- 32:25you know, if you want an easy button, put it in active,
- 32:27directory, or Azure active directory.
- 32:29And because my IJ platform is fully managing active directory,
- 32:33or Azure active directory, I will control both the
- 32:35authentication and the authorization.
- 32:38But if you've got an application that sits outside of that, out
- 32:41of sight of that management chain, I'm not going to be
- 32:44responsible for it because I can't control.
- 32:45What? And I would never agree to say,
- 32:47I will own the audit responsibility for an
- 32:49application that I cannot control the authorizations in.
- 32:53So I think that's where the business comes in.
- 32:55And is I think it's part of the, I am program.
- 32:57I think this is, you know, an agreement that gets made
- 32:59somewhere. Maybe, you know, executive
- 33:01levels or some other management levels to, basically say, okay,
- 33:04here's what we're responsible for, but by the way, because
- 33:07you're not using the, I am easy button that we've created, you
- 33:11are going to take on these responsibilities.
- 33:13You need to show your audit Trail for Who requested access
- 33:16was, it approved keep that for, you know, X number of months
- 33:21years, whatever you know regulation you need to comply
- 33:24with things. For example, if you ever decide
- 33:27that you do want to hop on the I am trained and become fully
- 33:30managed. Great, let's talk about that.
- 33:32But until that happens, I will not accept ownership of your
- 33:35audit findings. Have a good day application
- 33:37owner team. That that's the way that I would
- 33:39look at it. No, I mean you made a lot of
- 33:42great points certain when you fart at escp example we Seen
- 33:46that over and over again. I think what It ultimately comes
- 33:49down to is if an application or platformer how we want to look
- 33:54at is going to do their own identity and access management.
- 33:57They still need to be in compliance with the information
- 34:02security policies. Essentially, they have to do
- 34:04what the I am platforms are doing with the same level of
- 34:09adherence, to controls and being tested and, But ultimately comes
- 34:15back. 24. The decision-maker standpoint to
- 34:18decision makers, should be the business and the IM system,
- 34:23whether Central or its sap GRC, they need to be able to show the
- 34:28audit Trail and who approve the access and collecting all the
- 34:32same information that's required of the IGA system.
- 34:38I think it's kind of feeds also to hit the second question.
- 34:40He sent us, which is around work audit balance, which is a pun
- 34:44off, work life balance very In a regulated Industries, it's hard
- 34:48to balance the work I have because I don't want an audit
- 34:51finding against the work. I have to assure our identities
- 34:55are safe. So, now, basically, what we're
- 34:57saying is balancing water what, you know, the stuff I have to do
- 35:00that is going to be an audit finding or maybe was not in
- 35:03funding versus the thing that I know I should be doing from a
- 35:06general identity and access management hygiene perspective.
- 35:09There are certainly some overlap.
- 35:11But what ends up happening is this prioritization that?
- 35:14If every, if Every time an audit finding comes out, that becomes
- 35:17like the fire and it wins, when you're trying to, you know,
- 35:21versus all the things we should be doing and this is almost like
- 35:25the modernization question earlier.
- 35:26It's like, there's a bunch of things that you should be doing,
- 35:28but if you're constantly playing catch up on stuff, you know,
- 35:31what is that balance? Look like where.
- 35:33I have a list of a lot of things I need to correct.
- 35:35Every year, hopefully, you're making progress and it's not the
- 35:38same audit findings. Otherwise you've got problems
- 35:40but I think it goes along with that as well.
- 35:42Which is, you know, what is that mindset?
- 35:44That that If that needs to take place from basically walkable
- 35:49and say, okay, well we're just going to dress these Auto
- 35:50findings and not really solve the bigger picture versus trying
- 35:53to be more strategic for my New Perspective.
- 35:55That would solve potentially audit findings in the future.
- 35:59That would arise from not having a strategy or a program in
- 36:03place. What do you think?
- 36:05Well, I think the thing that comes to mind to such act to
- 36:07know what is the source of the audit findings and is a
- 36:11predictable because if the source of the audit findings is,
- 36:15Is hey, we've got an ancient access management system or an
- 36:19ancient, you know, provisioning tool.
- 36:21That's not really doing what a modern IGA does.
- 36:25Or we don't have a good privileged access management
- 36:28tool or we're shifting to the cloud and we don't have her
- 36:31framework for managing access there or maybe it's all the
- 36:34above were completely under invested that.
- 36:37Maybe you can attack it by saying we need to make these
- 36:41shows. You can vestments as an
- 36:43organization. Now, you also have to That some
- 36:46were, his ations it's almost like their strategy is to stay
- 36:50under invested and on this very unfortunate because we from the
- 36:54clients in the past that they call us after they paid a major
- 36:59Ransom, you know, to rent somewhere gangs because they
- 37:03were under invested and very vulnerable to being attacked, or
- 37:08they have some kind of major incident or major audit finding
- 37:12and, you know, it's like, okay now the house is on fire.
- 37:15Now we're going to call in the big guns and usually the
- 37:19situation is they've gone, 10 years and under invested.
- 37:23Now I think a big reason is of fish.
- 37:26Strategic decision was made like we're going to Outsource.
- 37:30I am as just a function we don't want to run and then it gets
- 37:34into this mode of just maintenance just maintain what
- 37:37we have. I mean five years in the I am
- 37:39industry is an eternity. I'd say five years ago.
- 37:42It wasn't even Baseline standard that you need that.
- 37:45Mme everywhere. I would say anybody would argue
- 37:48that you don't need them. If they everywhere now is crazy
- 37:53right? You have to look at your
- 37:54environment from a zero trust perspective.
- 37:57So I guess that's you know to Chris's.
- 38:01If you can kind of like predict what those audit was going to
- 38:05cost us on a findings and is due to, you know, things that can be
- 38:10addressed with investment. I think you have to push to make
- 38:12that investment and If your organization is cotton,
- 38:17critically underinvested in molten vest, I think your
- 38:21options are one. You've got to figure out how to
- 38:24convince people that is worth, carry about and worth investing
- 38:28in or, you know, potentially just think like this
- 38:32organization never going to invest, and we're just going to
- 38:34continue on this cycle. And, you know, you question
- 38:38whether or not, that's what the place you want to be.
- 38:41Yeah. If you're not investing, you're
- 38:42accepting the risk. That's the bottom line.
- 38:44Like that's that's pretty much Even when you are investing,
- 38:46your you're accepting certain levels of risk, but you should
- 38:49be investing to reduce risk, but anytime you don't spend money to
- 38:53fix something that's risk and you know, that's just no way
- 38:58around it. Let's shift a little bit because
- 39:00he he came up another one tools and Technology.
- 39:03He's looking for a tool. That will tell him at the
- 39:05entitlement layer when the last time it was used in order to
- 39:10reduce aging access his requirements, at least in a base
- 39:14level is it has to An active directory and third-party
- 39:17applications. I think a tool like that sounds
- 39:21really nice. I don't know if something like
- 39:23that exists because I feel like this is extremely dependent on
- 39:27logging and what logs are kept by the entitlements applicator
- 39:34the application that has the entitlements in it.
- 39:36So active directory, obviously has logs.
- 39:38I would feel probably okay with that the third party
- 39:40applications though, you just don't know what you're going to
- 39:43get from a log in perspective. Hey was this do they even track
- 39:471? Entitlement is used beyond the
- 39:50initial authentication or authorization chain?
- 39:54Yeah I mean you're right on like you know there are some well I
- 39:59don't think there's going to be one tool that that kind of you
- 40:04know pulls all this together without logs and I think the
- 40:07ultimate answer is having a Sim tool like a Splunk or elastic
- 40:13stack that can pull this data. It in and you create reports
- 40:17that can make sense of it. I think there are some access
- 40:22management tools that you know can filter at a coarse-grained
- 40:28authentication level and but ultimately it still comes back
- 40:32to spitting out, there's logs and when you throw active
- 40:35directory into the scope I think there's so many different ways
- 40:39to authenticate to active directory.
- 40:41Ultimately, you're pulling the active directory security logs.
- 40:45I think, you know, to me, the logging to make sure you're
- 40:48capturing the data that you want, centralizing, the logs,
- 40:52and then building reports to, you know, make sense of the of
- 40:57the log data to help filter it, to just what's important and
- 41:02potentially setting up alerts so that you know anything that's
- 41:07like really bad, you're getting alerted on, this sounds like a
- 41:11lot of custom work to me to try them, get all All the logs and
- 41:16then, you know, basically, you're looking through all the
- 41:20authentications that take place that's almost like this needs to
- 41:23be at the authentication level for each application.
- 41:26Suck up, all those authentication transactions.
- 41:28So to speak into that log and then try to come up with some
- 41:32sort of logic or tree that says, hey, look for this specific
- 41:35authorization chain. And if you see this specific
- 41:37word, which should map back to an entitlement name somewhere,
- 41:41or maybe it's even a word, it could be some sort of primary
- 41:44key that if, you know, Slate's from one thing to another you
- 41:48know, maybe this is an untapped space, maybe there's already
- 41:50products out there that exist. So if you know of something, you
- 41:52know, hit us up here, you know, ahead and send a message just on
- 41:55LinkedIn. We'd love to like talk and
- 41:57figure it out. Maybe it helps Chris out as
- 41:59well, but I feel like this is a very custom a custom thing that
- 42:03needs to be built, which to me, sounds like it's going to be
- 42:06pretty expensive. Yeah, yeah.
- 42:08Sounds like something. Maybe the FBI has just something
- 42:11but it sounds to me, like, premise question.
- 42:13He's talking about the The entire winter and entitlement is
- 42:17actually used, then you not only have to say, okay, Jeff logged
- 42:23in as an administrator but here actually use the administrator
- 42:26access. So I, you know what, I kind of
- 42:30think we're one place that we do, see that is with Kim
- 42:34software. So it's going in to Amazon, for
- 42:39example, and finding out when a role was actually used, and if
- 42:43that rolls not being, Stanley says you Jeff is now using that
- 42:48role but that's you know basically that's leveraging data
- 42:52that Amazon has and brawl the cloud providers have.
- 42:55So it's almost doing like log analysis from this Cloud vendor
- 43:00so it kind of goes back to our answer but it's also very
- 43:03specific to Cloud infrastructure.
- 43:05I don't think a similar tool set exists for you know non Cloud
- 43:12platforms. Yeah, that's a good point.
- 43:15You know, the Kim space might offer some solution.
- 43:17There are they think about too is just because it entitlement
- 43:21isn't being used, doesn't mean it should go away.
- 43:24I think of things like fire call or other sets of like emergency
- 43:27break glass type accesses where you hope that the you never have
- 43:31to use them or they use very sparingly, you know, if that if
- 43:35you have, you know, I'm, I would imagine go to some sort of
- 43:38portal say, oh, yeah, that's you know, that's the emergency
- 43:40access. Don't worry about that.
- 43:41That's fine to leave where it is, or whatever.
- 43:43B versus taking more like an automated process.
- 43:47I know there's there's one one client that we're kind of
- 43:51talking with in our professional life where like things like
- 43:55out-of-band access. For example, like how do you
- 43:57detect accesses and entitlements that are being granted?
- 44:01And you know we're looking at a combination of our PA robotic
- 44:04process automation, you know logging things like that to try
- 44:08to come up with some ways to kind of address that that unique
- 44:11use case, which is emitted. Ooh, pretty advancement.
- 44:14A lot of, I think a lot of organizations still trickling
- 44:15the basics but it is something that, you know, that that we're
- 44:20working on in our professional life.
- 44:23Let's get to the next one, which is a culture question.
- 44:25I like this one because it's gets more to the people side of
- 44:29identity. Chris works with a wonderful
- 44:31team. Now mostly virtual and spend a
- 44:34lot of time grinding provision requests.
- 44:36I feel your pain. Chris, how do you remind them of
- 44:40the importance of the work they do.
- 44:42How do you reward them? Away.
- 44:44So I think the idea here is that, you know, I'll go back to
- 44:47my old id admin days and kind of how I got into identity was.
- 44:51You're basically processing requests tickets emails,
- 44:54walk-ups maybe not so many walk-ups recently you know, Iams
- 44:59where there's you know you have to create accounts for some
- 45:01reason or add permissions are entitlements and it's, You Know,
- 45:05It's a Grind, e work, sometimes, especially if you're in a big
- 45:08organization, or you have a lot of tickets or requests coming
- 45:11in. You know, how do you You how do
- 45:14you a stress, the importance of what they do?
- 45:16I mean, really, you're talking about the first line of defense
- 45:19for an organization. It all starts with identity, but
- 45:22when you working on, you know, 100 tickets a day, or maybe 10
- 45:26tickets today is really matter. Right.
- 45:28How do you keep the focus for a team that that's sort of their
- 45:31primary primary role is to just do that permissioning for
- 45:34people? I think it's also comes back to
- 45:39kind of people management what I want, which is make sure that
- 45:42you are In touch with their people, you're having the water
- 45:45once, they have an opportunity new, you care about them.
- 45:48They know that the work that they're doing is important to
- 45:53the organization and they know that if they have a concern or
- 45:59something, coming up in their life that you're going to listen
- 46:02to them and do what you can to help them.
- 46:05I mean, so to me, it's kind of like, if you talk about the work
- 46:09culture and how do you keep people from going crazy, it's
- 46:12know that they're not. Alone, even though there may be
- 46:15physically alone at home and but that they're part of something
- 46:19bigger and they're valued and that you're going to be there
- 46:23for them. If they have, if they need a
- 46:25mirror, I think I feel like the last couple years because of the
- 46:29pandemic organizations, have gotten better at this of helping
- 46:34people understand their role with the organization.
- 46:37Why they're important because such a such a focus was paid on
- 46:40the mental health side of things, you know, for folks.
- 46:43I think is a good thing. I think it starts a lot of it as
- 46:46that messaging from the top you know and making sure that you
- 46:49know as a manager of a team like that for example promoting the
- 46:52success of my team to other managers and people that might
- 46:57be above me and the organization.
- 46:59Here's what we do. Here's why it's important and
- 47:02getting that message to them and having those folks help Cascade
- 47:06that message back down to folks, this is a lesson I took from a
- 47:10few of the Cecil's that I've worked for in the past.
- 47:13And Burt where that thank you of what we're doing, you know is a
- 47:19powerful motivator, you know. Not everyone is motivated by
- 47:23money or tokens of thing. Whatever that might look like
- 47:26gifts. Sometimes I love will tokens.
- 47:29I do yeah, I do have tokens of money.
- 47:30Don't get me wrong, but yeah, a sincere.
- 47:34Thank you and acknowledgement of the work that was done, is
- 47:37certainly helpful. And I think that's, you know,
- 47:40it's not always the end, all be all but At least recognizing,
- 47:45maybe even seasonal spikes. Okay, we know we're going into a
- 47:48busy time, you know, maybe it's open enrollment for example or
- 47:52it's the first day back after holidays and everyone seems to
- 47:56have forgotten their password. So, you know, you're gonna get a
- 47:58lot of password calls because they just don't feel like they
- 48:01want to take advantage of, self-service, password,
- 48:02whatever, reason, not saying that.
- 48:04These things haven't happened to me in the past.
- 48:06I'm just, you know, throwing examples out there, right?
- 48:08But I think, you know, I think part of it is making sure that I
- 48:12think the biggest parts were just being aware.
- 48:13Are of the value making sure that the team understands it,
- 48:16but also promoting your team, especially for managers and
- 48:20other folks who are leading people in these types of roles
- 48:23is, make sure that people know what it is, that your team does
- 48:26and why it's important and enlist their aid.
- 48:29And making sure that that message is getting around and
- 48:31have a Cascade down, is a big thing.
- 48:35You know, I as you're going through that, I thought of a
- 48:38session at the five-day conference that I saw listed
- 48:42that I'm definitely going to sit in this called The Forgotten how
- 48:47we all started with the contact center then forgot to secure it
- 48:50properly. You know, it's like we all like
- 48:54started out in that kind of position and then when we go
- 48:57through security it's it's not are you no mountain high enough
- 49:02of a priority for us to get it right?
- 49:05That's the global security engineer from CVS Health John
- 49:09Poirier. So reach out to him and see if
- 49:12maybe we can we can meet up with them while we're at the
- 49:15conference. Yeah that would be cool.
- 49:17I didn't say I think it's a really good question.
- 49:19I'm I think that's probably where we'll go ahead and leave
- 49:21it for this week. We've it's Labor Day.
- 49:23We've labored through a bunch of questions.
- 49:25I feel like our work here is done.
- 49:28We'll end on a lighter note which was also submitted by
- 49:31somebody out there. I don't think they knew they
- 49:32were submitting a letter or note but we're going to treat it as
- 49:35As such, let's go with it. And it's from Kurt Greening,
- 49:38what tool program policy or settings that if implemented
- 49:43would help reduce the chance that you would be called into
- 49:46work because of an IM emergency on Labor Day.
- 49:50So what is it that you're going to implement?
- 49:52That's going to make it. Make sure that you can be on
- 49:53that boat drinking somewhere or at least, you know, not, not
- 49:57have to do some work on Labor Day.
- 49:59Well, I guess the serious answer would be what a talked about
- 50:02earlier is like, you're going to have to take your turn.
- 50:05In our recent uptick for turn, but if everybody taking their
- 50:08turn then it shouldn't be anybody's turn.
- 50:11Every time of holiday shows up, my funny answer was my
- 50:17technology would be an airplane and get on that airplane and go
- 50:20somewhere. If that doesn't have Wi-Fi, like
- 50:23Belize or Bora Bora, that was my five response to Kurt, he's a
- 50:28good egg. I met with him out in the
- 50:31Gartner as well. Uncle how about you Mike Let's
- 50:35see, I think self-service, you know, reset your own password,
- 50:41you know, make a wit, make people aware that you know what
- 50:44they think it is emergency may not be truly an emergency,
- 50:47right? Don't I remember back to my
- 50:48pager days of Walgreens, you know, don't page me at 3 a.m.
- 50:52because you can't get access to the corporate menu you know for
- 50:55the cafeteria tomorrow because you're trying to plan your
- 50:56meals, I will not be very happy about that.
- 51:00You know, I think taking a risk based approach to escalation I
- 51:03think my fun answer would be Setting an out of office and
- 51:07making it very clear that you're not checking email.
- 51:09Good luck, godspeed. And you know notify the next of
- 51:13kin so to speak is the way that I would look at it.
- 51:16Yeah. Don't put your cell phone in
- 51:17your email signature. Yeah, I have mine.
- 51:22I do. That's the only number that I
- 51:25use, but yeah, I think that's I, you know, you have to draw
- 51:29boundaries. Fortunately, I think a lot of
- 51:31people especially the, it space are aware that they sometimes
- 51:34get you have. They're in a support position.
- 51:35You might get called in on days off or weekends or holidays.
- 51:40I can certainly remember having to create a whole bunch of
- 51:42accounts because of a mismanaged onboarding, New Years Eve, for
- 51:47example. So it just I think if you can
- 51:51plan ahead and try to head off as much of things, you know,
- 51:53people can enjoy it but and first cats culture question.
- 51:56So if you have those people who don't respect the boundaries and
- 52:01they go ahead and like violate the work lifetime, Your
- 52:05employees just, you know, recognize your employees and to
- 52:09whatever extent you can kind of stand up for them.
- 52:12Let people know like, hey, you know, calling them at home just
- 52:15because you have their phone number.
- 52:17Yeah. It doesn't make it right.
- 52:19Yeah. I remember back in the day would
- 52:21be like okay well just you know work from home today or hey
- 52:24leave early you know on Friday or whatever it's kind of makeup.
- 52:27Make it try to make it Equitable I think for both sides right
- 52:29ever. We all have a part to play in it
- 52:31so be a good human being is my motto.
- 52:33That's pretty much it. All right, what do you think?
- 52:36Should we go ahead and leave it there?
- 52:38I think so. Okay, hopefully everyone is
- 52:41enjoying their Labor Day. The end of summer officially
- 52:44here. At least in the US we'll go
- 52:46ahead and wrap it up. Check out our website, idac
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- 53:08So hopefully we get to meet some more Folks at some of these
- 53:10conferences that are coming up. So, authentic 8 2022 in Seattle
- 53:13by the final group or final lines of should say and then
- 53:16potentially octane, which is put on by OCTA in San Francisco in
- 53:20November. And who knows what next year
- 53:23from it perspective. So with that, we'll go ahead and
- 53:25leave it for this week. Thanks everyone for listening,
- 53:28and we'll talk with you all in the next one.
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