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AAA via TACACS is a sweet solution for big parts of this.
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Ah, so YOU'RE that guy . . . I have a Solarwinds T-Shirt from back in the day: "No, the network is NOT down!"
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The Sherlock Holmes set retails for just under $50 in Amazon. However, I picked up the same set of stories in one hardcover book, which is available for significantly less if one is content purchasing used. I've spent many an hour enjoying Holmes over the last fifty years; this is one of many books I reread every few…
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I have some sympathy for the London Met facial identification challenge. It made for nice Sci/Fi TV stories IF it worked reliably. It made something to show to the public outcry resulting from concerns and fears of recent acts of public aggression in recent years. It's unfortunate it does't work as expected. It's…
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Amazing. I respect your experience and insights and opinions. When they write about a hypothetical person who would invest $1000 in BitCoin three years ago, and own $120,000,000 today . . . I know of no one with that kind of money to risk on a wild gamble like that. But I realize there are those people out there.
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We audit regularly through outside non-associated third-party contracted solutions, plus continually internally with a specialty application that finds and reports weak passwords, insufficient patch levels, security vulnerabilities--all in addition to NCM's Compliance Reports.
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Equifax. So what do we do? Stop doing business with everyone on the Internet? Stop doing business with everyone who has something in the cloud, who has an Internet connection? Because it appears no one has any teeth to ensure safety and consequences when safety is missing, and tests to verify and validate the sites and…
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So many titles seem to be about self aggrandizement or limitations--opposites of the spectrum. I'd like folks to be impressed with my job, and to pay me impressively. What I'd like has little to do with reality. Some titles I've held over the years: * Engineer * System Administrator * Server Administrator * Maintenance…
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Secure solutions that don't allow apps or web sites to steal/mine one's data must be part of the future, even when checking performance. Or maybe especially when checking performance.
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Until this feature is provided, consider using either snmp to monitor and alert on temperature thresholds, or using traps to alert/notify you when those devices' intake temperatures pass acceptable thresholds. The beauty of using snmp and traps is that you no longer have to drag a sensor to a cabinet and look. The…
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It's 100% true. Start trusting others, and getting them to trust you. Behave honestly and with positive ethics and treat that trust as precious. Do the right thing, always.
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Heaven forbid they should learn from experience. Or that USERS should learn the same way.
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My high school band director occasionally took me out of the saxophone section (we had FIVE tenor saxes!) and featured me in the percussion section, since I'd had ten years of piano lessons and could read music as it applied to chimes, xylophone, and marimba. Sadly, none of the other percussionists had any piano…
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This solution makes me happy. I wish it were that way where I work. I recently pulled the Security rights logs for all people who have badge access into network rooms and came up with over a hundred people, where it should have been limited to less than twenty. I can support firemen and trained electricians and maintenance…
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SSD reliability has been tested & reported on pretty thoroughly, and I'd tend to treat it equivalent to flash-based storage: Which SSDs are the most reliable? Massive study sheds some light | ExtremeTech Google did some intense testing here: SSD reliability in the real world: Google's experience | ZDNet I'm impressed with…
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Nielsen would have enjoyed my surfing yesterday (Sunday) as I tuned into an NFL football game. There were three-to-six replays of virtually every play, and seemingly three to six commercials between every down or on every penalty or score. I ended up surfing to anything BUT FOX for my brief attempt at entertainment via the…
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I'm 100% with @"Radioteacher" on the privacy regulation. Wouldn't it be sweet if 2021 were there that additional I.T. / Security pet peeves like the ones below be answered? * Why are there still businesses & groups that insist on having all or part of my social security number for their records, or even just the last four…
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Suppose we were asked the inverse? "Why would you spend any time or resources to meet some compliance standard?" Some easy answers come to mind: * Keeping your job * Staying in business * Being safe & secure * Avoiding losing staff, money, resources I can think of no useful reasons to NOT work to achieve compliance. It…
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It's the military. They're staffed 7x24x365. It's not like someone goes home and the base closes down all their mission-critical services. Someone is always present to support those services and applications. Those people doing this work have backup people, and supervisors, and fail safes . . . I admit I'm ignorant about…
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Microsoft might be on to something here--free technical support for a new environment they're offering may make a world of difference towards getting that new environment adopted quickly across a wide range of customers.
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You just KNOW few non-government/military/security organizations are base lining new devices' traffic. Many organizations aren't anywhere near that sophisticated. Thanks for sharing this. It's good to have this particular vulnerability reinforced multiple times.
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Technical Writing impresses me mightily! I took a Tech Writing class, and a Business Writing class, in college; I learned that you might have to know something really well to teach it to others, but you must know EVERY bit and permutation of it if you're going to do Technical or Business documentation of the product. I…
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While moving away from Oracle, it sounds like Amazon did some serious original work. Kudos' to them for the skull sweat. I'd love to learn the costs of all their Oracle licenses and support contracts and staff, compared to the cost of moving the information off Oracle, and also compared to building the new environment to…
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With all the expertise in the Thwack forum, plus the behind-the-product knowledge of SW, isn't anyone offering Orion as a cloud-based service? I'd love to work for that company! Monitor / learn every environment, customize every possible kind of view and report and and poller--I'd think I'd died & gone to heaven. If…
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NAC seems to be mandatory, since simple segmentation isn't enough in an L2 / L3 fully routed network. ACI can provide the segmentation / access, but it's not to be entered in without plenty of budget and time and understanding of the new limitations for all parties. ISE (NAC) can be used to provide better protection.…
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For good unscheduled frustration, have your network team point all of their Cisco 5508 controllers' and Prime's syslogs at Orion NPM at the same time Then have NPM forward all syslogs from 1000 switches, routers, WLC's, ASA's, and 2000 AP's, to a database set aside for a new Splunk deployment. Now watch the alerts (and the…
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I sure wish this could be required reading for everyone. Not just I.T. people, but folks in the House & the Senate, grandparents enjoying retirement at home, kids, working folks--and not just in the United States, but in every country. Ignorance of risk and ignorance of acceptable / proper behavior with Information is the…
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UDT was initially unreliable in my environment, and had been temporarily disabled until February of 2019, at which time hot fixes and updates improved it to the point of it being reliable again where typical routers and distribution switches are in play. Where the router is an over-used 65xx or a Nexus 5K, UDP is not…
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The "water slide / Ferris wheel"? I see this as a useful demonstration for a Gastroenterologist to share with patients. As for a "fun ride"? IMHO, not so much . . .
