#security

at the FN1 building will there be badging out macjines. As of right now they do not. Just curious if the will be implementing them due to the fact that people will leave

The title says it all. We’ve got so much in the way of cybersecurity, spyware, performance monitoring, key logging, etc, that it’s negatively impacting the usability of laptops. Forget blaming the usual sources like Microsoft, or support, this is clearly a self-inflicted wound if you take a look at the application stack consuming a good percentage of your system’s resources.

Dock and undock? Best of luck with that. You’re in for at least a minute or more of zombie mode before the state change is recognized.

Standby? Good luck. Your notebook will continue to run in your bag despite selecting standby. It’s overheat or run out of battery which ever comes first.

I hear no one is safe from the data spies anymore and everything is being logged, your eye movements are translated by zoom to reflect your every mood.

You have a very short window sir to do the right thing until the new CEO comes and sees right through your wall of snake oil and misdirection. Your presentation onstage at the internal kickoff was an hour of wasted time I will never get back. You showed Google AI and Notebook LM and pretended it was a technology forward development. It was not sir. We all saw through your charade.

If you want OpenText to succeed, you need to:

• perform deep product consolidation. Go from 1000 products down to 150. We need one product for each segment we want to play in. Why do we have content server, documentum and core content? Why do we have multiple faxing solutions in BN?
• The products you choose to keep need to be completely rewritten from the ground up using cutting edge architecture and memory safe development languages. Putting a legacy product inside a container doesn’t make it containerized. We need a real automated orchestration layer than can handle availability, capacity in real time by itself. Patching should be done in the middle of the day by scaling and moving without impacting customers.
• Security and privacy need to be designed into all of the products from day 1. As a European developer, I cringe every time someone tells me we will comply with GDPR. Our products are not designed for security and privacy by default. As governments become more demanding, we will be left in the cold. The time is NOW!
• Fire 50% of your direct reports. Most of your VPs and directors are incompetent and would be unable to find a job anywhere else. Most have been here too long and don’t know what modern software architecture looks like.
• Understand that AI is not a product and will quickly become a feature. Slapping AI on something (like Ollie AI) doesn’t make it modern or desirable. Where are your real product managers thinking about building world class functionality? Aviator is nothing more than a Google AI wrapped in OpenText clothes. It is NOT innovation. It is not unique and customers aren’t buying it.

Several of us with afternoon meetings have been kicked off the system and accounts disabled. My leader has no idea what's going on. I put in a ticket w HD. I thought we were working til 9/5 even if laid off. How am i supposed to join meeting later? smdh

Both the Infrastructure and Security teams have really gotten worse over the last 2 or so years. Cocky, delusional, don't understand the business needs or requirements. Hated by all peer organizations in DDAT. They challenge everything, unskilled staff. people that we should have got rid of long ago still here and promoted into higher positions, the good staff is all gone. Nobody says anything since "Tilak's boy" is SVP.

BTW, even your leader doesn't look like he belongs in healthcare and looks like he could drop dead any minute.

What does this have to do with layoffs? "AR... layoff the doughnuts"

was stuck in a GTO security meeting with a VP, an SD, and a D who were completely clueless about security. Honestly, my 12-year-old knows more than these muppets. I get it, though. They probably got roped into this gig after the CISO and the whole team were shown the door to save a few quid. "Who needs a security team? They're just a drain on resources."

I won't spill the beans on the meeting, but let’s just say it involved an HR, ethics, and legal issue that any other company would take seriously. Here? It was all about blaming the victim. When I asked security to check reports or audit records, they shrugged and said they don’t keep those. Really? That’s a load of rubbish. The last security team handed me a year-long report detailing profile baselines and behaviour deviations.

The current GTO security crew is either completely lost or they've slashed costs so much they can't even run the show anymore.

HSK = Hardware Security Key for those that don't know. It's a little USB type device with a fingerprint reader on the top that plugs into the USB-C port. It's quite small and VERY easily losable. Even though "technically" you aren't supposed to leave it in the computer, 99.999% of people do.

The entire "frictionless access" is d-mb. Dell spent all sorts of money on these little HSK keys to be more "secure" but, 99.99% of people just leave them in their computer anyways. They aren't "easier" or more convenient since you have to input your PIN first, THEN put your finger on it. Every place I need to login to that isn't requiring an ADM account, which requires an RSA code, I choose to use just my PIN and sc--w the HSK.

It's faster (JUST the PIN,) one step less and to even use the HSK you literally have to click the option to use it. D-mbest sht I've ever seen so far. If it were fingerprint only and you didnt have to "choose to use the key" then ok, fine.

What a massive waste of money Dell spent on this lol. I'd bet money that everybody's HSK PIN is the same exact PIN they use already. If I had to bet more money, I'd bet that most people's PINs are just their phone number w/o the area code lmfao.

I'm not sure but, unless Dell plans on forcing everyone to use this HSK for logins - with no other options such as a PIN, password, RSA - then wtf was the point in this?

When will they be off T payroll?

If you are store level asset protection or Human Resources expect cuts early 2026. Rumors circulating that both those positions will be eliminated from bronze doors and under. Golden doors will more than likely still have those positions. More than likely asset protection will be the first to go, followed by H.R. leads.

and the names of those participating in the settlement going to be public, do you think Stankey would use that information as one of the "metrics" to fire employees that make a claim for the money?

Oops

Since the company can't even send a godda-n email letting us know, does anyone know why the badge readers at 176 stopped requiring a pin?

Not that I'm complaining but I'm watching a bunch of buffoons still enter pins while it flashes red.

Since dell will never tell us this info on their own and will pretend it didnt happen.....

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hr-giant-workday-says-hackers-130410698.html

Starting today they’re installing additional security cameras at Framingham HQ. This is out on the portal but wasn’t sent via email communication.

Wondering what the reasoning is. Why spend money when they’re planning layoffs all the time??

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/hr-giant-workday-says-hackers-stole-personal-data-in-recent-breach/

Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal information from one of its third-party customer relationship databases.

US has no choice but to help Intel turn around its business in the hope that it will provide chip manufacturing security against China. Without the full details of the stake, we can only speculate what stipulations the US gov’t has imposed on Intel, if not talks are still on going - but…IFS and ProdCo split is likely going to get more pressure. Chip manufacturing is US top priority, chip design is aplenty. This is a boon for IFS since the gov’t could help in many ways to get the customers it badly needs. For ProdCo, it cannot stand alone and it has to find a host to attach - hello Qualcomm!
But before this happens, big internal battle is being played out. NS will not concede without exhausting every tooth and nails. Good luck!

Nike let us keep our phones when we got laid off. I tried to wipe it today and was met with it still be registered as part of Nike's mobile device management. Does anyone know if this is intentional or the best way to ask Nike to remove it?

Enhanced monitoring/blocking for Wave 4 of Technology's Location Strategy is in place. All impacted employees will be blocked from:

• Sending external emails.
• Uploading content to the web.
• Printing at the office.
• Printing remotely.
• Using removable media (USB/CD) on their work computer.

Tech managers can request exceptions if needed. If you're not sure if you're impacted by Technology's Wave 4, try doing one of those things.

SS is cleaning house in EMEA and the Americas! This is long overdue. Half of that organization is completely worthless!