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Can you accomplish this by installing everything on VM, then do scheduled snapshots? Would that solution also handle databases? I never hear about installing databases in VM--is that even a thing? I can understand if it's not. Our SA's allow us to do VM snapshots of our SW servers prior to upgrades, but we're only…

Until this is a thing, consider making DNS entries for your devices. Yes, it's time consuming, but your Security Team probably wants that anyways, so they can better understand which devices have vulnerabilities they discovered with Nessus or Rapid7 or Nexpose. At least DNS entries will stick around until you manually…

I commend all those who are so diligently attempting to get the answer correct, and thereby earn points. (On the other hand, for those that get the questions right the first time, it's as if their points are being diluted by all the second chancers--there's no gaining on someone who gets a second chance to get the points…

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That Bobble-Head-Doll's hat & sunglasses are the bomb! I wish I'd gotten into costume for my doll!

The TACACS upgrade path from ACS to ISE worked well for me. Still having RADIUS issues in ISE.

Here, too, we're networking in health care, and you never know what might cause a change in networking needs. For example: * Some years ago a train shipment with many cars carrying Benzene derailed into a local river. You could see the clouds of gas rising from ten miles away. The two towns of Superior, Wisconsin and…

Amen to that! I could have used this a lot.

Inventorying assets annually (at least!) and then randomly performing spot checks to verify the inventory numbers are accurate is essential. Doing the same for problem employees would be an interesting task--one filled with risks of lawsuits. A "data inventory" is a term I'd not heard before, although we use the concept…

Yes, communication is the keystone to success--or failure. Users assume they can buy/have anything on the network and it'll just work--without consulting System Admins, Network Analysts, Security staff, Applications Analysts, DBA's, etc. Upper Management has their eyes on the prize, keeping long-term planning goals close…

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My team is continually challenged to get the right alerts and filter or turn off the wrong ones. Keeping up with it is a never-ending task.

What's the next "shawarma" for September of 2017?

$20 says Friday's secret letter is very near the end of the alphabet. ;^)

And . . . I would want an incompatible Apple Credit card, with all its associated problems and vulnerabilities, because . . . Why?

Again, appreciated!

Sway caught my imagination. But I confess to being in a position where I'd love to know a tool and use it for a long time successfully, rather than having to relearn it or replace it as frequently as Microsoft would like to have new cash flow. Simply changing from one year's model of Excel to the next one can present a…

Thank you for sharing this. It's encouraging to see many different types of people have questions and are working to make this technology safer and more widely available.

Fool me once, shame on you. Move to the cloud and lose access to your data's security? Shame on you again.

Just wait until they merge hardware and firmware with our wetware, and this is done by thought. Talk about change management and tracking issues!

Yes, this describes our network environment. Required to support all things from all vendors instead of requiring consistency. Let me know when there's a way out. Move ALL things to AWS? Not an option yet. And it can't be an option until "we" (the purchasers) stop buying products that are one-offs, that don't comply with…

A good topic, considering this malware, and more sophisticated packages, are still out there. But a question for SolarWinds or Thwack: How are old / obsolete blogs and queries archived or removed? I've seen plenty entries that are no longer valid or useful due to their issues having been resolved or eliminated through…

I was going to reply with the sole word "Lucky." Then I realized you're on the hook for how someone new works out. If they turn out good or average, you're OK. If they turn out to be a Benedict Arnold or a Wiki Leaker, scrutiny falls on you. Shakespeare wrote: "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

I bet others would appreciate some details about your admin page that shows hardware changes. I wouldn't mind you taking over this thread, if you'd like to show us how you accomplish it.

Would you be so kind as to share some examples of scripts and IOS upgrade capabilities that you've found won't work, or are too complex to accomplish with NCM's Firmware Upgrades featurer?

I was lovin' your train of thought, then you back the benefits of having multiple services when you referenced being down because "the internet just fails." That's the big use case for having multiple services, vendors, and paths. What's most important? * Cost of being 100% down * Cost of more services that can prevent…

I'll be tuned in!

Not sure if you can access this from work--but the idea's the same. Just swap out the folks climbing the stairs for a poor guy tumbling down them forever. Escher on life | Florilegium

Move into this from Nerf guns: 2016 HOT Waterford District Championship Final 2of2 - YouTube Note the ending sequence where the robots score additional points by "scaling the tower."

I like Maria's question "What makes anyone think that Covey, or the people he used as sources for that book, were actually effective?" I take it as a combination of: * Think for yourself, don't just accept someone's concepts blindly * Question authority (but please do it kindly and considerately) * Look for the goal: was…