Howdy Folks,

I hope you all had a great holiday break! We are back on schedule and will have our first Zoom meeting of 2024 tomorrow morning, Friday January 5th at the regular place and time!

Tomorrow, we'll be diving into some resumes!

Don't forget, our Zoom room has changed! Details are below.

For those of you who are new to Office Hours, we invite anybody to join, but I do ask that everyone follow a few guidelines.

• Please be respectful. There will be people from all knowledge levels, and we want to encourage any and all participation.

• THERE ARE NO DUMB QUESTIONS. Please feel free to ask about anything that you think is related to Cloud Security. If you're thinking it, somebody else is too. Go ahead and speak up! It helps everybody.

• Anybody is welcome to comment or ask or respond to a question. Most especially, when questions are asked! Speak up or put something in chat, whatever you are comfortable with. If you see or hear a question and want to speak up, please do so! Use the Raise Hand function on Zoom and I promise we'll call on you.

• This is a non-compete space for all vendors (this is important). We are all here to learn and share. This is not about products. But you might hear about products as it's the nature of our industry. Opinions are welcome, but we are not here to pitch anything or disparage any vendor.

We do not use any information from these sessions for marketing purposes, and that’s a promise.

OK... details:

Cloud Security Office Hours is a weekly Zoom held every Friday at 7:00 AM Pacific, 10:00 AM Eastern (2:00 PM, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC))

The Zoom link is:

https://zoom.us/j/94382692964?pwd=Y3dkclA2cHhKbThreTlYV1BmenhxZz09

Please spread the word and invite ANYBODY you think would be interested in learning or contributing to the discussions! The absolute best way to invite someone is to send them to the registration form at our web page: www.cloudsecurityofficehours.com

Also, don't forget we also have our very own Mastodon instance. Think of Mastodon like a Twitter without tracking or ads. Through the magic of federation, our Mastodon is linked up with all the other Mastodon instances and you can reach any of them from ours, and ours from anywhere else.

We also have a private Telegram channel for everybody now. If you want to join our group and discussions, here is the invite: https://t.me/+Ht22n3iTuOlmY2Yx

Once again, THANK YOU, and I’ll see you on the next Zoom!

Best regards,

Shawn

Do you want to support Cloud Security Office Hours?

I have been asked about this a lot. We're not going to disappear without donations, but it does make it possible to do things like Mastodon, mailing lists, web site, postage for prizes, etc. We accept donations of any amount to cover expenses at https://paypal.me/cloudsec but please don't feel obligated in any way. If you're better off spending your money on a certification, by all means do that instead. We'll be fine!