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What are startups all about?

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Many people in tech look up to Silicon Valley startups, treating their practices and habits as some sort of recipe for success. It stems from fundamental lack of knowledge of how SV startups are run and for what purpose.

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Your source code is not that special

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Whenever the topic of protecting developer machines comes up, I find myself dismantling the same fallacies over and over again. One of those fallacies goes like this: we must protect our source code! So far so good. Protecting your source code makes sense…

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Your security team’s job is not security

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There is a very common misunderstanding in tech that I keep running into. Many people believe that a person hired by their company who has “security” in their title is there to ensure that your software and operations are secure. It’s especially heartbrea…

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