Make no mistake, the massive layoffs are intentional SHORT TERM sabotage by business decision makers with the goal of LONG TERM benefits for them.
They're trying to drive down the costs of labor. Specifically, they're firing everyone so that we'll accept lower wages upon rehire.
In #infosec, this will backfire on them.
By firing everyone, the level of security technical debt will increase that they'll have to hire everyone AND THEN SOME back at even higher rates.
So. Neat. Fucking great.
In the mean time, research how to create unions. Start doing so. Tech folks and infosec are not used to needing collective bargaining. You need it now.
Learn about the concepts of Economic Leverage and how it works as an individual contributor and when that fails how Collective Leverage works. The whole "if you fire that one person, we all quit" sort of thing works.
You all hack systems every day. You all study Social Engineering and combat it every day.
Hack the labor market. Socially engineer our mutual protection.
@tinker Ayup