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Can confirm, there's increasing pressure from legal and compliance to map the risk and look into alternatives. For the cloud this is somewhat doable (we could
by LaurensBER 1y ago
Can confirm, there's increasing pressure from legal and compliance to map the risk and look into alternatives.
For the cloud this is somewhat doable (we could run on Hetzner if we increased the team size) but for Microsoft/Apple there are zero alternative ofcourse so sofar it hasn't proceeded beyond a few risk_mapping.xls files.
- sam_lowry_ 1y agoFrom my sources at AWS I hear that pretty much all cloud migrations for EU institutions were lift-and-shift. So I guess you just don't have enough pressure to execute the down-to-earth migrations. The engineering culture in DIGIT is abysmal and outside of it, totally inexistent. This can also explain the lack of progress.
- dvfjsdhgfv 1y ago> From my sources at AWS I hear that pretty much all cloud migrations for EU institutions were lift-and-shift. This is in line with my experience, too. When asked why, they would usually mention 2 arguments: 1) additional work for not much extra value, 2) vendor lock-in.
- sam_lowry_ 1y agoI am not affiliated with EU institutions, but followed their IT evolution for a while. Some 20+ years ago, their IT was fragmented but decent, pretty much on par with the private sector. But then DIGIT started the centralization efforts, and it squeezed life out of internal IT departments across institutions and directorates. DIGIT bought all of its Microsoft software from British crooks that defrauded the Post Office and were at the origin of the Horizon scandal . DIGIT created the infamous framework contracts system that still siphons funds to Greek and Italian mafia. DIGIT caught on Drupal quite early but managed to suck the soul of every Drupal developer that joined in. Once in a while the arrogance and ignorance of DIGIT management let beautiful things flourish under the carpet. For many years the EU tender system was the only big website that used XSLT for its original purpose of rendering XML into HTML on websites. What I am trying to say is that DIGIT has to be reformed and given clear operational instructions, e.g. no more cloud migrations and a 10-year period with checkpoints to bring everything back to earth. They should also decentralize and nourish proximity IT services. Also people responsible for money laundering, e.g. the individuals who signed the Fujitsu framework agreement or the European Dynamics framework agreement should be prosecuted. They may claim these agreements were legal, but let the courts decide.
- StefanBatory 1y agoSorry to ask, but what is DIGIT? I did try to Google it, but nothing useful came up.
- sam_lowry_ 1y agohttps://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive-agencies/digital-services_en https://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive...
- StefanBatory 1y agoThank you, I... didn't connect the dots. Both embarrassing and thank you
- adamcharnock 1y agoHi Laurens. Not sure if this interests you, but this is something my company [1] specialises in. You don't need to grow your team, we handle the migration, and also include ongoing DevOps support. Plus your company can still remain in control of the infra. You can reach me directly at adam@... [1] lithus.eu /pitch
- blitzar 1y agolast I checked the current working version is risk_mapping_v8_sharepoint_bacckup_v4_draft.xls
- bravesoul2 1y agoIn //startrooper09/company/sales/notsales/old/backup/financial/derek2023
- mytailorisrich 1y ago[flagged]
- casenmgreen 1y agoI looked for personal use at Hetzner. No spaces allowed in passwords. Not a great first impression.
- victorbjorklund 1y agoWhy do you need spaces in the password? Honestly never ever thought about using spaces in the password.
- fallingknife 1y agoDisallowed characters like that give the impression that plaintext passwords are being stored.
- Hendrikto 1y agoWhy would they disallow it? It’s just a character like everything else.
- ManBeardPc 1y agoUX. People accidentally adding whitespace by copy&pasting it. Easy to overlook and probably lead to some customers being confused. Also people use whitespace to separate words in text. Most password managers don't generate passwords with whitespace by default.
- Semaphor 1y agoBesides what others said: Passphrases like the famous "correct horse battery staple" https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/
- illiac786 1y agoI think the better question is, are they the only ones not taking passwords?
- raverbashing 1y agoWhat kind of Apple cloud infra are people using?