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Excellent article. Learning of any type or form creates knowledge..... Knowledge is power. The ultimate question is what we do with that knowledge/power? And as Jfrazier​ wisely points out... we need someone checking it.

Well put!

Thank you for the article.... nice read! I will play with this in my lab at home.

Nice article.... We use some public cloud services and are loojking at 1-2 more. Trust-Verify-Document-Test-Repeat in the end you are responsible! My role in 10-15 years... being 5-10 years retired!

In the end it comes down to managing expectations. The lack of control and insight are the daunting tasks we have to overcome, but in the end the business needs rule. We have to do our best to protect ourselves from ourselves. Hybrid no longer appliess to just the architecture, but to all facets of the process. It is no…

good times!!!!

Great article mbleib​ "Who really is developing their mainframe skills today?" so true!! Every day offers me the chance to learn something new and I take advantage of it! I agree with ecklerwr1​, it seems to work well for me. Years ago I worked for a manager who had an expression.... "Just because you've worked 30 years in…

So... the Gecko loves to play on a phone... Can't wait for the competitors of the little green lizard insurance company to come up with a commercial "I saved xxx dollars by switching to Brand X, but my phone bill was about $2 million"

Agreed... I never stop trying! :-)

The future can only be bright. We have so much more to learn and so many more issues to conquer. (hunger, disease to name a few serious ones, time and space travel for a couple more) Each generaton is expanding the limits of thought and possiblilty. As long as we remember that technology is a tool to help us advance and…

Well said.

nicely done!

Interesting article networkcanuck​ I've always been interested the CEH certification. I think it has a definite place in security, particularly with smaller, les sophisticated shops. Nice work!

Risk versus reward.... an ancient dilema.

@"rsmith82" I can't imaging dealing with WFH/Remote learning daily double! I've had to go into the office in spurs since March... I see a lot of my team hunkering down and trying to get through it.... And doing well I might add... I think we've got and understanding that when this is over, we are going to have a day in the…

@"sqlrockstar" an NSA charging station.... ' nothing to see here!!!"

So 3236 satellites roaming the heavens to get internet access across the globe. It's going to get pretty crowded up there and what goes up must come down at some point, I can picture the nightly news with the latest satellite re-entry info given with the weather report! Looking at the basics.... Ambitious...you bet....…

Great series.... I'd love to see more like it in the security arena.. A closing thought... In this case paranoia can be a good thing - in moderation!

Great write up adatole ! You are spot on with what lies waiting out there for us!

sadly... guilty on more than one occurance... :-)

Do what you must..... automate when you can!

Love #1 and #3.... never re-invent the wheel... and always hand out fishing poles... not fish!

ditto

So true... the forgotten few who make it all happen.

I learned this lesson early on and like you colleagues became friends.... As time passed I became a manager, I quickly realized that teamwork was the only way to guarantee success. So I heavily promote it... Rules for my teams 1. Check your ego at the door. 2. You don't have to love each other or go out drinking together..…

That was great!! When my own kids were young they used to ask what I did... My response: "Well when people call daddy on the phone, it's not to ask what am I doing for lunch!"

I've been doing this for a long time...When I started, a lot was defined by vendor specific OS. If you your shop was IBM, you concentrated on IBM. They players have changed at an ever increasingly lightning pace. You might have one or two connections with outside vendors (usually modem based, but I did have a transaction…

Great points.... The most important: Learn from you mistakes... We all screw up.... As a friend of mine who is a teacher tells her kids... "It's ok!! They call them mistakes.... not purposes!!" A really deep breath or two during the process doesn't hurt either! As for the artillery I see here.... sign me up!

Dear InfraClaus I've been a good technologist all year! Can I please have the following gifts? * A larger budget * Auto replacement of my aging "toys" * More scalable solutions * Training and a conference or two * For all my "toys" to play nice together. Not only during the day but at night too! Thanks InfraClaus.... Your…

Technology is too often considered to be the "wonder drug"... We've gotten really lazy with respect problem solving... the reason... cost... When disk space, memory and CPU's were expensive, care was taken to make sure that any code was effectively using resources before going to the well. (Think DOS!!!! ) Now, we just add…