whoami

I’m a ICT engineer and have been working for 4 years at a nice small biopharma company in Switzerland with lots of really smart people, and most importantly, an awesome IT team :). I’m passionate about software engineering and cybersecurity.

The problem

At the end of 2023, our backup system detected that there was an issue with one of our servers. The result of that was that the backup couldn’t be completed. The role of that server was to host a MS SQL Database that retrieves and stores data from desktop clients across our labs that are used to control complicated instruments which run complex analyses that are not relevant for us cool kids.…