Episode 289: The sabbatical is not going well

This week we discuss how corporate life changes in a post-pandemic world, security startups raising VC and the adoption of Zero Trust. Plus, we test Coté’s geography skills.

Rundown

Post-pandemic Predications?

Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain

VC

Aqua Security reaches ‘unicorn’ status with $135M late-stage funding round
Snyk raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation as employees cash in and the security company beefs up
How to pronounce Snyk

Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service
Programming Languages / Follow Up — Brandon can also mention this in follow up

Excel Never Dies
Microsoft's New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete
Pickle Rick (Pure CSS)

Relevant to your interests

Move over, SolarWinds: 30,000 orgs’ email hacked via Microsoft Exchange Server flaws
India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees
Hackers are using home office selfies to steal your personal data
McAfee Announces Sale of Enterprise Business to Symphony Technology Group for $4.0 Billion
Facebook is now testing Reels…because how else will it beat TikTok?
Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging he launched probe in retaliation for Trump ban
SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe
Blame the Intern
Vista Equity buys controlling stake in Austin startup AlertMedia
What CEOs Need to Know About the Cloud in 2021
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop
Apple picks German city of Munich for major chip lab
Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open source app networking project, raises $40 million
Spot raises $1.9 million to bring back conference calls
Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M – TechCrunch
Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition

• Multicloud deployments surge as Microsoft Azure duels with AWS

Identity and Access Management

Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal – TechCrunch
IGA - Identity Governance & Administration | Gartner Magic Quadrant 2019
Farewell Gartner Magic Quadrant for IGA
Brandon interviews Squire Earle

Nonsense

That Mitchell and Webb Look - Discoverer
IBMDeveloper - JJ Hates Computers
The Absurd Nike Scandal That Has Sneakerheads Losing Their Minds
Man Makes $300,000 Racking up $6.4 Million in Credit-Card Charges

Sponsors

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT

Conferences

SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

Matt: William Gibson’s Agency
Brandon: WandaVision
Coté: Werther’s Originals

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The sabbatical is not going well

Episode 289

March 12th, 2021

1 hr 21 mins

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About this Episode

This week we discuss how corporate life changes in a post-pandemic world, security startups raising VC and the adoption of Zero Trust. Plus, we test Coté’s geography skills.

Rundown

• Post-pandemic Predications?

• Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain

• VC

• Aqua Security reaches ‘unicorn’ status with $135M late-stage funding round

• Snyk raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation as employees cash in and the security company beefs up

• How to pronounce Snyk

• Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service

• Programming Languages / Follow Up — Brandon can also mention this in follow up

• Excel Never Dies

• Microsoft's New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete

• Pickle Rick (Pure CSS)

Relevant to your interests

• Move over, SolarWinds: 30,000 orgs’ email hacked via Microsoft Exchange Server flaws

• India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees

• Hackers are using home office selfies to steal your personal data

• McAfee Announces Sale of Enterprise Business to Symphony Technology Group for $4.0 Billion

• Facebook is now testing Reels…because how else will it beat TikTok?

• Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging he launched probe in retaliation for Trump ban

• SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe

• Blame the Intern

• Vista Equity buys controlling stake in Austin startup AlertMedia

• What CEOs Need to Know About the Cloud in 2021

• Presentations — Benedict Evans

• Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop

• Apple picks German city of Munich for major chip lab

• Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open source app networking project, raises $40 million

• Spot raises $1.9 million to bring back conference calls

• Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M – TechCrunch

• Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition

• - Multicloud deployments surge as Microsoft Azure duels with AWS

• Identity and Access Management

• Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal – TechCrunch

• IGA - Identity Governance & Administration | Gartner Magic Quadrant 2019

• Farewell Gartner Magic Quadrant for IGA

• Brandon interviews Squire Earle

Nonsense

• That Mitchell and Webb Look - Discoverer

• IBMDeveloper - JJ Hates Computers

• The Absurd Nike Scandal That Has Sneakerheads Losing Their Minds

• Man Makes $300,000 Racking up $6.4 Million in Credit-Card Charges

Sponsors

• strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT

Conferences

• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.

• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.

• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!

• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.

• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

• Matt: William Gibson’s Agency

• Brandon: WandaVision

• Coté: Werther’s Originals

Photo Credit

Photo Credit

Episode Sponsors

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Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.](http://strongdm.com/SDT)

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