markofu’s blog

So firstly, we obviously failed at our promise in our first post, i.e. we didn’t post an article every few months. Both of us did contribute to the   Leadership Tribe of Hackers book   so that makes the failure a little less, right???   Anyway, in this post, we wanted to share what we have found to have worked for the Security teams at Riot Games during the Covid pandemic.  Like Chris Hymes described  here , we pivoted early (before the “stay at home” order) to collaborate with IT (and teams across Riot) to ensure there was a secure and reliable “work from home” experience for Rioters. As challenging as this emergent work was, the more difficult and ambiguous challenge arose after-implementation.  Surely, the pressure was off as Rioters were now able to work from home such that Riot could securely deliver new games, transition to a  remote broadcast for eSports , onboard new vendors (to help further with “ wfh ”) and do their usual day jobs? That wasn'...