My Playbook

Here you can find resources, suppliers and tips that I’ve picked up over the years. This is reference for me, but hopefully you find it useful too!

Infrastructure

• AWS CDK is an extremely strong option when your stack is AWS and TypeScript. Pairing with cdk-nag is recommended.

Security / Compliance

• Security Awareness Training / GDPR Awareness - https://www.infosec-cloud.com - A service that you can sign your staff up for to get targetted phishing campaigns linked up to training. Helps increase security awareness across the business. Had really good adoption and had staff raising phishing campaigns in Slack.
• Cyber Essentials - A good framework for minimum security standards in any business.

Visual Studio Code

• Error Lens: let’s you see errors quickly and in context.
• Shellcheck: it’s really hard to write a shell script that won’t break on someone’s machine.
• Pretty TypeScript Errors: not perfect, but goes some way to helping decypher TypeScript’s errors.
• Hide Node Modules: enough said.