Mike Delaney
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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I got to see grain production in Germany and all over the country and everything that we did between our cold storage and our, our grain plants there and our flour mills and. This is just fun war stories for a moment, folks. But I remember standing in California and I won't name the facility, but I know you'll know it, Mike. It was one of our no, it was one of ours.
It wasn't one of our sister companies. I was in there like executive boardroom looking out. There was a window and there was an empty like lot next door. And I watched I remember sitting there with a coffee and I just happened to look out the window and I thought, that's weird. It was like a drug deal. I cried like 50 feet from our door. And I just remember thinking, where am I?
And then the time I was sitting at one of our sister companies in Vegas and there was a fire three doors down and I sat there and watched the smoke billow into the building and we didn't move because we had stuff to do. I remember the project manager I was with, he was like, you're not leaving unless you are told by the fire department to leave. And I was like, I'll never forget that.
The whole warehouse was full of smoke. Like, not really bad, but like enough that you were like, your eyes are watering. And I thought, wow, this isn't good. Like, this isn't good. There are other weird things that happen around the tech and things that I didn't ever want to see and I can't unsee now. And the amount of dumb things that employees do on computers, just insane. Dumb things.
Like if you're studying anatomy in school and you're using your work laptop, we have search engines that look for tags on words all day long in any language. I'll never forget that we stumbled upon this particular individual who was taking anatomy class and it was really bad. Like he had embedded these files into certain things and we're like, yeah, no, we're going to take that and reimage it.
and you're probably a big trouble buy. Like don't use your school laptop for school. There's so many funny things and the sales teams are always a riot. And yeah, they definitely kept me moving. Oh, they were always just a technology disaster away from not being able to function.
And going out to their offices was always a hoot because they were so excited because they never had anybody from the technology side ever on site. So they rolled the red carpet out for you. It was fun, definitely fun times, but it was always a really interesting experience.
is that that is symptomatic of the industry itself.
Which is why it actually, the industry of food in general has become an interesting place. You know, it's not necessarily that private equity owners thinks it's a place that they can, you know, exploit and make money because they see a lot of opportunity due to all of these inefficiencies and tendency on old legacy systems that, you know, shouldn't even be on the computer anymore.
They're so ancient. So that was where, you know, our owners, you know, They said, this is an opportunity to take a place that's, you know, run it on a Model T and let's put it on something a little more modern.
Yeah. The problem is the Model T still needed to run though. And the fact that they kind of bypassed that was really, really inconvenient to this process. Yeah. Yeah.
That play is, it's very common in the private, in the food world right now. It's because there's so much inefficiency that you can, you know, leverage technology. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And then one of the other vulnerabilities of that, though, is as you talked about how some companies don't, you know, they're not necessarily willing to or need to upgrade from the old legacy system.
The problem is, is a lot of those don't have the embedded textures that you would just get even off of.
or even just segmented away from everything else as a critical asset.
When they plug in some IoT device in the factory, and then, you know, it's all she wrote because now it's plugged into the bigger world and not isolated.
Well, yeah, and this is getting into more of a technical weed, but a lot of the networks inside of these buildings were flat, meaning everything was connected at all levels. They didn't have any staggering levels or like different levels. rooms you could walk into. It was just one open floor plan. That's what I described that networking term.
That causes the problem is if you don't create these little segments, whether it's your critical or production system or your office in the production area, it becomes so easy for people to hit, just hit one, you're in. But if you have this segmented section, it's almost like Swiss cheese. They can't get to everything. They got to kind of work their way through it.
That's why I always say, make it hard for these hackers. Make it hard. Don't make it easy. Don't be an easy target. You want them to struggle. Make them work for their money, literally. Once you start saying that, people are like, oh yeah, we should make this harder.
But the problem is, and you know this, Mike, that the second you make it harder for the hackers, it becomes harder for everybody else, right?
I mean, you know, 16 character, you know, email passwords and 90 day rotation on changing it out. Yeah. However, you know, the average person remembering multiple 16 character combos to put into your It gets to be all tedious. Yes. So then the next thing you know, you walk in their room and it's on the post-it note on their computer. Or it's saved on their laptop.
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