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tcbene Security is fine as long as I am not inconvenienced by it.

I do agree about the cloud, lack of control and all. However, for a small business that can't afford a full time security staff, the cloud can offer solid solutions.

Congrats steveng‌

So true. Zero Geek Cred

Still not a fan of giving up control. 

The Boaty McBoatface article explains a lot of what is happening in the current US political environment. Good read.

Correct. Also known as kicking the can down the road.

I haven't been to one yet, but soon.

Fortunately, we will be looking for a new firewall solution and we are primarily a Cisco shop. One can hope.

The JEDI Cloud contract has a lot of use DoD contractors confused. Some of our projects are moving forward with AWS, regardless of the larger contract. This means we will have to become adept with both. Sounds like job security.

Looking forward to the tee shirt.

Agreed. However, each person's motivations vary. We all have our dark side. The question is, how much of a push does it take to cross over? I hear the dark side has cookies.

We shall see. He would be the odds on favorite.

Reporting should always be tailored to the target audience. Understanding what the target audience wants, or think the want, is key.

Good read. Thanks

Great write up.

I still like private cloud.

Wannacry Ransomware has been targeting servers using the SMBv1 protocol. SMBv1 is an outdated protocol that should be disabled on all networks. Tenable make a product called Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS). Think of it a Snort style sniffer that specifically looks for protocol versioning. Such as SNMPv2 traffic where…

The end result is an abundance of jobs for the Guard Dogs.

Congratulations nowell‌

and I thought I was seeing things. Whew, what a relief. Now if the voices would just stop.....

I attempted to get Splunk for our DoD site, but our senior engineers could not see the value. Hmm....

Unprotects cameras was one of the first "Google Hacks" I discovered when getting my degree. I am not surprised to see they are still available to the general public.

Those are the type of bugs that would have to worked out. No more getting buzzed by an angry motorist, just because I'm in his/her lane. If emotions are removed from the commuting scenario, that would be huge.

Smart light bulbs? Really? Great list as usual!

We tend to have power and space issues. Loosing power greatly shortens spinning drive life. SSD is more resilient when it come to power It also takes up less space.

Thank you all. I can't wait to see the comic. The comic that was created for Dr. goodzhere‌ was awesome!

Wendy, I was collecting points as normal until Friday. Prior to answering the question on Friday, I had nearly 101,000 points. After answering the question, I dropped to just under 98,000. Any ideas?

NT was an odd cat. Saturday night was when we did our weekly maintenance. Part of that maintenance was complete backups for all servers and then rebooting them. We would also have to reboot the Cybex ATM backbone switches. If you got the process out of order, the domain controllers would blue screen when rebooting the…

Totally agree. We use our help desk to groom for our integration team. Advance from within as much as possible.