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Better Together - Working Together in Silo Organizations
In my last post WHEN BEING AN EXPERT ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH: MASTER OF ALL TRADES, JACK OF NONE, you all shared some great insight on how you were able to be find ways to be successful as individual SMEs and contributors, and how you could navigate the landscape of an organization. This week, I’d like to talk about silo…
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Three Preventative Strategies to Help Mitigate Asset Risk in Your Agency
Has your agency created a strategy for managing off-site equipment and the potential for increased security risks? Brandon Shopp (@bshopp), group vice president of product strategy at SolarWinds, provides some great tips in this article. For many federal employees, the workplace has shifted from a traditional office…
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Improving Learning Continuity With Tech: 4 Ways Schools Can Use Relief Funds
Brandon Shopp, group vice president of product strategy at SolarWinds, gives great advice in this EdTech Magazine article for K-12 institutions on the most effective ways to spend money allocated through the newly passed American Rescue Plan Act. When the pandemic closed schools across the country, K–12 districts…
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Another Look Back
Many of us are getting back to work after a few weeks of relative quiet (or for those of us with large families, at least a week of quiet from work-related issues). And as we're catching up on emails and updating our TODO lists, a look back may help us plan how best to move forward. Last week, Head Geek Lawrence Garvin…
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Cybercriminals infiltrate banks! Hundreds of Millions Lost! Lessons for the rest of us
On Friday the 13th, Kaspersky, a Russian anti-malware and research firm, released a report documenting a significant campaign to infiltrate banks worldwide to steal hard cash. Somewhere between 300M and 1 billion dollars are estimated to have been pilfered. Attackers entered the banks systems using phishing lures and then…
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Favorite IT Metaphors,Sayings and Aphorisms
In my Linkedin Profile, I write that I’m a fan of “elaborate IT Metaphors” yet, in a very literal way, I’ve never actually written a list of my favorites. Listing out my favorite IT metaphors, sayings, aphorisms and such is risky. Too much pithiness, and I risk not being taken seriously. Too much cynicism and no one wants…
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You Are Here – Part 6 – A Reference Model for IT Infrastructure Security
We made it! This is the final post in this six-part series mapping the cybersecurity landscape through a new reference model for IT infrastructure security. Thank you for coming along on this journey with me. Now it’s time to take a look at where we’ve been, review the map itself, and discuss how to put it to work in your…
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A Stratagem For Obtaining Funding For Your Projects
My name's Rick Schroeder, and I've been a member of Thwack since 2004. I manage a health care network of 53,000+ computers across three states, and I've been enjoying using SolarWinds products like NPM, NCM, and NTA to proactively manage "Pure Network Services" across my organization. In my environment "Pure Networking"…
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Hands-On With SolarWinds Sandwich Monitor 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DEL-ASGOh3Y?rel=0 Finally out of Beta, today we’re releasing our newest Inventory Management product, SolarWinds Sandwich Monitor. This addition to the SolarWinds product line will allow you to monitor and manage IT Consumables Inventory across your enterprise. Administrators finally get…
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You Are Here - Part 4 - Identity & Access Security
Where are you? Halfway through this 6-part series exploring a new reference model for IT infrastructure security! As you learned in earlier posts, this model breaks the security infrastructure landscape into four domains that each contain six categories. While today’s domain may seem simple, it is an area that I constantly…