Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)<p>🚨 You Had One Job — FutureCon Seattle 2025 🔐</p><p>In 2024, attackers didn’t need phishing emails. They waited for the next zero-day in your firewall. As Mandiant’s M-Trends 2025 shows, edge device exploits are now the top intrusion vector — and security vendors themselves are becoming the new initial access brokers (unintentionally, of course).</p><p>My talk at <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FutureConSeattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureConSeattle</span></a> was a no-BS reality check: 10 ways orgs are still failing at foundational security, and how to fix it — no buzzwords, no user-blaming, no new vendor required.</p><p>🛠️ Just configure what you already own, document it, and follow through. Because no one wants to explain how your security box got you owned.</p><p>📊 Slides here: <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/futurecon-seattle-2025-presentation-slides-you-had-one-job/281147331" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">slideshare.net/slideshow/futur</span><span class="invisible">econ-seattle-2025-presentation-slides-you-had-one-job/281147331</span></a><br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Infosec</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIST</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PCI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FutureCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureCon</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MTrends2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTrends2025</span></a></p>