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 [email protected] 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