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But isn't that how ice cream is made?

If thee really hates alerts thee should add thouself as Cc: to the alerts generated by thine users. (Of course, doing this also allows thee to show "Yes you did receive the alarm" and show the evidence.) JoeP (before coffee)

@"geosca", if you were within sight I'd give you such a hair-curling glare for making that song run through my head! On the subject of kids, I wonder how many parents needed help from their kids to set up remote access to school and/or work?

I expect that was meant to read "file and disk encryption". As for the end-users, that is a constant battle. There are some out there who just can't help clicking on links and files no matter how many training sessions they are made to attend. On the other side the social engineering is constantly being improved as the…

For question six, I do argue that the type and vendor of hardware we use could lead to being out of compliance. If we do not ensure we upgrade we risk having unpatchable systems which then result in known vulnerabilities existing in our systems. A former employer of one of my family members insisted on running ancient,…

I'm guessing those were either prop or ancient laptops?!

BrightTalk is a mix of presentation types. Some are marketing, some are demos, some are interactive, some are philosophical. I have registered and worked on my profile to ensure I see mostly interesting items. Note that sometimes just looking at a presentation's page registers you for that presentation, which is…

One, two, many. One, two, many.

Didn't Victoria pass on over a century ago? We are not amused!

Beware of pigeons!

If you used to enjoy gridiron football, and are stuck inside due to weather, I recommend rugby. There are far fewer pauses, much more action, and funny words to learn. (One statistic I read stated the average American football game contains less than 10 minutes of actual ball-moving action.) If you're tired of sports find…

And after the video, one of the "next videos to watch" that came up was the trailer for Deadpool part deux! I'll have to update the firewalls to keep out the old jokes. Those things can be wea-pun-ized!

In the "Top 7 Audit-Prep Reports" document you have two #5 and no #6. 

They can run anywhere they can run, from how I understand. One might worry about ensuring that the container runners are kept up to date with the containers they are meant to run. That became an issue with Java as we all will recall.

If you cannot see the hint for the question on September 14 try a browser other than one of Microsoft's.

Of course, one must convince your people to USE the self-service portal instead of doing the same-old-thing of dumping it all on the service and help desk people.

Yeah yeah yeah, all that's amazing and important, and the food looks great, but come on, we all REALLY want to know... did you get to meet Gal Gadot?

One big cost behind all this AI is the energy needed by the datacenters. Mitigating this is a significant concern, for multiple reasons.

Always too many alerts without sufficient context and no simple way to coordinate and consolidate them contextually. Too much brainpower and time spent figuring out underlying causes, and too many people looking from different directions at the same problem while not knowing it is the same problem

Large enterprises may be moving to AI, but the vast majority of companies/employers are small to medium, which don't have the resources to implement an AI solution.

Just like Dungeons and Dragons! We have to go adventuring to grow in experience points, and thus in rewards.

People. The human factor is the most unpredictable and the hardest to account for. Too often users know just enough and have just enough access to cause chaos. Security controls can mitigate that to some degree, but there are always loopholes and secrets and leaked access information. I can build a redundant datacenter,…

Failure is always an option, as Adam Savage coined. The scientist in me considers Failure as simply an unexpected result. It is simply a matter of tracing back through the steps I took to find the incorrect input and determining how to start again from that point. (As long as the result wasn't one that ended up with me…

Is Solarwinds considering similar functionality for other companies' hardware? There are other suppliers of networking hardware and it would be helpful in identifying obsolete and, more importantly, vulnerable systems.

1 + 1 = 10

How about a Grind?

"Everything old is new again" goes the old chestnut. The fundamental question every company needs to ask when considering handing IT to another company, no matter what the latest description for such, is "Can we trust them with our data?" Whether it is local servers managed by third party IT support, or a local cloud built…

"The Art of Blacksmithing"? What kind of computers are your running? Sure, we've all wanted to whack our computer with a hammer, drop an anvil on "that" co-worker, had too many irons in the fire, but you've gone all in.

Bah! You youngun's, you aren't old enough to remember paper tape, and wire storage!

I have gazed into the Untempered Schism... sorry, I mean the Dark Theme, and found it good for these aging eyes. Dark text/lines/shapes on light backgrounds can be unpleasant to look at for extended period.