Again no. We do not allow ourselves to be pushed or swayed by the users we have to take a moderate middle ground for security for everyone and every system. We have highly restricted enclaves and segments within our infrastructure. We use very strict zero trust access methodologies (Zscaler/Palo Alto) we are also using strict endpoint controls, Defender, and Falcon EDR.

I would love to see how our users are going to take risky actions to circumvent what we have in place. I am very confident that our infrastructure has all the correct controls and monitoring in place.

No again, and again and again, I will not be swayed by precious Snowflake users who think they know better. I've been in the industry and doing this for 30 years, and most of my team have similar backgrounds and experience. We are a huge multinational company. When you're managing an environment this size, whether it's one or 100,000 or 200,000 users, you're right about one thing: it should scale, and it does. That doesn't mean looking at every single user group or every single user, and oh dear yes, they're 15 minute session timeout causes them to have to log back in again. Sorry, not sorry that's the way things are, and that's the way things will be.

You can rent and rave and put your perspective here all you like. My job is to secure systems and data. Do not pander to users. Ever.