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Still holding a wait and see attitude.

All good certifications. Choose your path well.

Good reads.

Our management would never fund that, but a guy can dream.

Need to dig out my smoke injection device.

Don't forget about the SANS\GIAC certifications. They have a whole series of classes/certification for both offensive and defensive ops.

Well, for my classified environment, there is no cloud to move to. We will continue with our data center.

We automate where we can. Usually repetitive tasks that are time consuming and scriptable.

I think I have met a few of this persons relatives.

Kudos to bobmarley​! Don't forget physical security! Often overlooked and under rated!

Automation is not new. All good system and network administrators have been automating repetitive tasks for a very long time.

Thanks for the nod. They will be available in word format after December 30th

Day 23: IOPS

I agree with tcbene. The network team will always hear about it first.

Also, thanks for the links. I'm going to share them on our bike club Facebook page.

I have to agree with michael stump. Sometimes management doesn't value the 20% and you need to be creative to allot that time.

May the source (code) be with you.

Always clean in house first is a solid rule to live by. Unfortunately, when non network administrators can't isolate their problems, many will automatically blame the network. I have seen the flip side of this as well. I maintain a unique server VLAN ACL that provides some isolation between that VLAN and the rest of the…

Nice view! Where is the bike path?

Thank you for this week's post. All good reads, as usual.

Same here. 

Very good, well thought out response. We did a lot of cross training back in my Navy days. I haven't seen much on the civilian side.

I am sure they will attack and we will here all about it. I'm sure we will attack. I wouldn't be surprised if we already have hooks into their networks. However, we won't hear about our attacks.

I can definitely see both sides of the Apple\FBI issue. The outcome will be interesting regardless of how it is resolved. I wonder if the if the FBI tried to have Apple do this quietly at first or did they just go with the heavy handed approach?

Done

TCPdump, I listen to your conversations.

Still loving the story line. Although there have been a few sharp corners this season.

but resistance isn't futile, resistance is voltage/current

Always the network until you prove otherwise.

NET SEC. Finally a challenge that is right up my alley!