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I've watched programmers and their social interactions change through the 70's to the 2000's, and there were many who complained about everything becoming politically correct. The biggest causes for immediate change in businesses I worked in were employee complaints about inappropriate language, or actions in the work…

I agree with the other comments about the Top 5 Security Mistakes. Those areas are easy to correct, but they need a system and a staff to make the changes, or an automation solution that will do the job correctly for you. Firewalling only goes so far, and if a malicious entity somehow achieved access to the internal…

They won't sell my data? "Trust me" they say? I say "F00L me once . . ."

Police Departments and Ring. Another head-shaker. Sure, surveillance is necessary when the value of a human life and the respect for others decreases. But getting customers to promote a vendor's product, even endorse it, for cash or prize considerations? It's often not good when an organization becomes beholden to a…

I never heard of that one. I initially thought David was very talented, but my impression has devolved from seeing him as an interesting actor to one I feel is very predictable. His characters are far too similar between all the movies and TV shows he's done.

Agreed, 100%! It's a key factor in my search for a long-term data warehouse solution for Solarwinds.

Again, you called it correctly when discussing Amazon and Quantum buzzwords. In fact, I wonder if they use the buzzword generator I shared with others yesterday. Certainly keeping the latest jargon in everyone's face is part of spin--even when the jargon has nothing to do with the jargon everyone's been excited about.

Well, that took far too long to sus out and get the right answer. Thanks, all who provided comments this morning! Your ideas clued me in to the concept that a well-designed and intuitive product would obviously have something available to make this kind of task easier for an Admin. Learning to use the options they provided…

Don't fall victim to the IoT assumption that every device that CAN have an IP address (even IPv6) SHOULD have a network connection. Wireless isn't going away, but it isn't going to get better if folks don't say "no to poorly secured IoT solutions."

One of the nicest surprises of our migration to a split poller / master NPM/NCM solution is discovering that we didn't have to buy new/additional licenses for NCM and NTA and Engineer's Tool Sets. SW allows "free" installs of them on NPM polling servers, saving us some potential "oops" in budgeting. Now we have the added…

I don't see a solution being offered or discussed that breaks down the silo walls. Many of us believe a single-pane-of-glass monitoring solution like Solarwinds is the basic tool to begin the silo destruction, but the more I see coming out of Cisco, the more I wonder whether the silos can even exist in the future, never…

I just discovered Berkeley Breathed is aware of IoT, and has come up with a new euphemism for it all:

I'd offer an alternative list of "critical cyber roles" for government. It would include: * Research and Development--much like DARPA back in the 1980's, the government can have huge impact in the development and guidance of technology. "Doing it right", and having the foresight of industry experts and well-trained…

I'd have to put that person's actions and behavior in context and then determine the benefits and liabilities. Having a strict moral code could be slippery. Does that mean they know some action is inappropriate, and feel guilty about it, and do it anyway? That's probably not what you meant. They probably will NOT willingly…

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When SaaS and NaaS (Networking as a Service) combine, we'll need Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) and more. All I see from Cisco now is a future where security and networking and applications and servers are virtualized and/or conglomerated / aggregated into one massively complex solution. One where no one knows all the…

Me.

That sounds about right. I've lived in Minnesota all my life, and I have similar acclimatization, except towards cold and away from heat. I don't do well in 85F+. It's even worse with high humidity. My wife wants to retire to someplace south, and I confess, there are days when the driving / biting wind makes me a bit more…

I'll agree with the idea that "Trust but verify" must apply to AWS's new offering. But it doesn't go far enough--it must apply to anything on the Internet, and particularly anything stored in the cloud.

"But wait--THAT'S NOT ALL!" Also from Amazon. Who knew?

What an enjoyable contest bracket this has been! I don't know how you'll ever equal it, much less top it. Thanks for the fun!

Bump. Vote for this, "Like" it, if you can, so it eventually is incorporated in the product.

Atlanta Airport Power Outage: At least it wasn't snowing/raining/having a hurricane sit on top of it during all of this. I'm happy to think (?) it was honest human error and equipment malfunction, instead of something more insidious. And while hindsight remains 20:20, it seems a poor design for resilience by having…

Much enjoyment--thank you, again!

That DOES sound complex. I was just happy to skip SSB to Columbia or Argentina or occasionally to Germany from my car back in the '70's.

I'm glad you've looked into this topic. I use many chassis switches for their improved up time because that's critical in a hospital environment. I had no problems showing Management chasses are about the same price as stackables in high density network rooms. Once I proved ISSU reliability is 100%, and showed that…

Secret Service Stuff: The solution to getting hidden/locked/encrypted data from a smartphone, to help solve a case or convict a criminal, might be simpler than sanding the phone down to the raw data access. It might be teaching kids good morals and ethics, rewarding their good behavior and not tolerating bad behavior.…

Is this link useful to your concern? FIPS 140 - Cisco

Building eight million universes in just three weeks sounds pretty impressive. How long will it take to investigate and analyze and learn useful things from each one?

What do I want to get out of it? "INPUT! More INPUT!"