Secret Sauce & Security Snacks
🛠️ This open-source guard dog watches for bad behavior on every prod host.
❓What is Falco?
🧽 This button reruns archive jobs without making you copy-paste stuff again.
❓What is the Re-run Archive button?
🗺️ This project maps how personal data moves across internal systems, helping us understand and visualize data flow.
❓What is the Data Map?
📵 You now need age verification to change these settings in the UK or Australia.
❓What are Sensitive Content Controls?
🥿 These Discord-branded slippers caused a size-related meltdown during Onsite gifting.
❓What are Wumpers (Wumpus slippers)?
👀 This tool lets you skip typing passwords, like magic (but secure).
❓What is Okta FastPass?
🧠 This dashboard helps track sketchy actors over time.
❓What is Case Tracker?
📦 This internal catalog launched to help teams track what data sources exist and onboard new ones more easily.
❓What is the Data Catalog?
🎭 This project let teens prove their age using just a selfie video.
❓What is the Underage Appeals Age Verification Flow?
❓Someone’s trip to the office was interrupted by this intruder hiding under their couch.
What is a snake?
🔄 We switched from HackerOne to this platform for better APIs and triage help.
❓What is Bugcrowd?
🎯 This capability helps isolate compromised systems in production.
❓What is Production DNR?
🔒 This archive mode skips the content and just grabs the metadata.
❓What is Metadata-Only Archiving?
💼 This project secured devices at BPOs.
❓What is Managed Chrome for BPOs?
🧑✈️ A flight attendant once had to remind passengers that it’s not acceptable to do this to them mid-flight.
❓What is throw trash at the crew?
🧪 This AI tool reviews RFCs, SEVs, and other docs, but only when it’s worth your time.
❓What is Sirius Reviews?
📺 We now scan message videos using Google’s content safety system.
❓What is Video CSAM Detection?
🎬 This media review tool added gore to its resume.
❓What is the Gore Review Tool in DiRT2?
💻 This tool lets staff teleport into office Windows devices, securely.
❓What is Office Teleport?
🦊 Firefox now has this Chrome-like feature, which had Joe hyped and Kevin confused.
❓What are tab groups?
🧛 This update gives a quarterly peek at emerging threat actor tricks.
❓What is the Strategic Threat Profile?
🪄 This tool can label 100,000+ things at once with no engineer needed.
❓What is the Smite Bulk Action Tool?
🔁 This update made sure flagged messages — not just attachments — get reviewed.
❓What is the IAR Report Routing Change?
🆔 This tool was built so staff could test age verification flows without fake bans.
❓What is the Age Assurance Test Modal?
🤖 Spotify was accused of promoting this kind of musical “artist” to save money on royalties.
❓What are ghost artists?