Hello and welcome to the Friday, October 17th,

2025 edition of the Sands Internet Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, recording today from Jacksonville, Florida.

And this episode is brought you by the sands.edu master stick-free program in

information security engineering. Well, today's diary was really more sort of a little bit

internal thing and that's a new DeShield support Slack workspace. We had Slack work spaces

for the last almost 10 years, I believe, that we started using Slack

and has been quite successful. Sadly, Salesforce, which was the company behind Slack,

for some reason that I haven't really been able to track down exactly how it happened,

moved us to an enterprise account.

Now, they're known to sometimes offer sort of trial pro accounts, but apparently they

mix it up with a SANS account, moved us to the enterprise account.

And while it was nice to have the features, the bill was not quite as nice,

and they weren't able to easily undo their mistake.

So the only option we really had was to move to a new Slack workspace.

And that's what we're doing now.

You should have already received an email with a link to the new Slack workspace if you signed up for the original Slack workspace.

And there's also a link in today's diary.

Also, all the other links to our Slack workspace are hopefully updated.

If not, let me know if something still points to the old Slack workspace.

The old

workspace will be deleted on Monday and then everything should be moved over to the new

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