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Really like this topic. I think it will be interesting to try applying the five why analysis to issues as they arise. It's difficult enough to get prioritization (everything's always a priority), but asking why should be interesting.

Hey, wow, it's three years later. Hope this shows up one day soon...

Regarding the control apps in cars, one might certainly be glad to own an older car at that point. This issue seems to be fairly common where connected systems arrive earlier in a market or industry than might seem reasonable. Demand for functionality wins out over most other considerations, at least in the early times.…

Nice bacon shoes! Do you have some waffle print socks to go with them? The parenthood stuff is very true.

Well said! HA != DR and even the best systems have holes, weaknesses, and/or contingencies that no one thought of along the way. You plan for everything you can, and handle anything else if it happens. We all know Mr. Murphy lives in datacenters, so the odds are ever in his ignoble favor that something virtually…

Cool way to highlight and preserve a bit of history with that stadium.

Riding the bicycle to work has it own stresses, as the dangers of automobile traffic and distracted drivers are more frightening than any haunted house. Stealthy hybrids and electrics are even more potent threats. The exercise is good, though, and on balance may tilt the stress levels in your favor. You could always listen…

One other possible category comes to mind: the willfully unwatched. Some network segments are isolated, often for valid reasons, and no one wants to let the NMS watch those segments. Whether for reasons of security, compliance, or other concerns, the decision was made somewhere along the line to keep those so isolated that…

It would just be refreshing to hear the discussion shift from harder passwords to better passwords. 

It's all black and white, except for the parts that are gray. Thankfully professional auditors can handle those gray areas, right?

Interesting read on blockchain. Someone didn't buy the sales pitch, clearly.

I think you should create a NOC and Roll Hall of Fame (and maybe a corresponding Wall of Shame) as a section of the Thwack site. Each week or month add a featured individual to the Hall for something like most Thwack points in the month, most questions answered, or other worthy achievements.

We hear the term layered security bandied about a lot of late. I think there's some wisdom there, but as usual it's part of the strategy and not the entirety. A lot of traditional firewall companies are moving toward a more comprehensive model, beyond the capabilities of the UTM device, and including some pretty…

Had my interest with the article's title. Words really do matter. Nice topic here.

How long will you be on Mars? Two weeks. Wait, that wasn't AI.

Part of the deal with the old ways of preparing food, and this could easily apply to a great many things other than food, is that the process takes a lot of time, effort, and patience, and could still be easily disrupted by outside factors such as weather. Most of us will never know how much we take for granted the ability…

It seems that many IT organizations understand the need for documentation, but few that I've ever encountered are actually willing to assign ownership. Most of the time it ends up a shared responsibility and gets lost in the ongoing saga of upgrades and new installs. You never need it, so many times it gets put by the…

The legroom vs width consideration is definitely a concern. Did anyone else notice this gem below the article on legroom? It seems the airlines are getting more creative, and I doubt that's a good thing. American Airlines and United are offering in-flight credit card pitches — Quartzy

Anyone here play HQ Trivia on their ubiquitous mobile communicator (smart phone)? I have a suspicion, admittedly somewhat tinfoil hat oriented, that HQ is a massive human input training system that is teaching an AI. The questions are written so as to make them unsearchable within a very short time box, and the human…

How exactly does a company not find a breach for that length of time?

That temptation with the cameras is just too much for some folks, it seems.

I like this approach. It's something of a semi-permanent, registered guest access for employee owned devices. A more intricate initial enrollment allows the device to be known and minimizes future efforts. It also helps get some of the non-work traffic isolated from the corporate network(s) where it doesn't belong.

Boo on today's question. 

Yes, Orion definitely helps us look across the silos. One of the biggest challenges is convincing others that it can help them look across, too. They just have to log in and look around, but easier said than done.

For every one that gets caught, I would wonder how many others have been sneaking by. 

I think there's a tendency to view the devops concept as a panacea for all the ills of IT. I'm not sure that's valid. The potential is certainly there for it to lead to even more silos, additional complexity, and a lack of boundaries where they are truly needed. As with everything, I'm sure that a lot is dependent upon the…

I believe we often take the idea of SIEMs for granted. We expect them to be immutable, infallible, and full of reliable data for their purpose. It's difficult to grasp the idea of nefarious parties manipulating logs when we expect those logs to be legitimate. This idea is definitely one that the infrastructure and security…

Pay to play is never cool for something like this. Pretty sure Gartner got sued a while back over just such an alleged situation.

Agree wholeheartedly. Therein lies the human element that is, at least for the time being, irreplaceable in IT. The ability to intuitively grasp the correlation of events is terribly difficult to quantify, and is founded upon a careful study of the network and its elements. Tools such as Solarwinds clearly help, but they…

Hmm - the white elephant link seems to want a linked-in sign-up. Mmm - turkey legs.