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Not that they are bad products per se, but as many organizations use Microsoft products they are prime targets for too many hackers and it’s hard going to bed thinking that your identity info might be hacked someday and/or not knowing if it will be.
The surface area that Azure/Microsoft have is just too large for it to assume to be protected by one company whose security as not been the most stellar. So we are actively moving to GCP as well.
One of the reasons why we moved away from using Microsoft products for our identity management to Okta. Not that they are bad products per se, but as many organizations use Microsoft products they are prime targets for too many hackers and it’s hard going to bed thinking that your identity info might be hacked someday and/or not knowing if it will be. The surface area that Azure/Microsoft have is just too large for i…
And it's not that the alternatives are perfect, but Windows is as secure as swiss cheese.
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And yet, fascinatingly, very very little discussion. 60-ish comments was the most on any of those posts.
One of the reasons why we moved away from using Microsoft products for our identity management to Okta. Not that they are bad products per se, but as many organizations use Microsoft products they are prime targets for too many hackers and it’s hard going to bed thinking that your identity info might be hacked someday and/or not knowing if it will be. The surface area that Azure/Microsoft have is just too large for i…
Okta has been hacked a couple times now...
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/okta-breach-source-code-gi...
Okta looked very bad during the entire saga where they kept denying they were hacked until the proof was insurmountable. Pretty sure there was a large discussion on HN at the time too.
Any Windows product/system is a liability. I'm not sure how to put this lightly. It was designed to create a monopoly first before any other goal. And it's not that the alternatives are perfect, but Windows is as secure as swiss cheese.
Any Windows product/system is a liability. I'm not sure how to put this lightly. It was designed to create a monopoly first before any other goal. And it's not that the alternatives are perfect, but Windows is as secure as swiss cheese.
In IT security jargon, the "Swiss cheese" model is a good practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model