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Bump. Again.

Steven, my cell phone is one digit off from a local cab company, resulting in multiple late-night calls from inebriated folks who need a ride home from their local bar. My team's Hunt Group number is one digit off from a medical department that works primarily with patients scheduling colonoscopies. The patients…

OMG YES! ACI is EVERYWHERE now . . . It's too late for me--RUN! SAVE YOURSELVES!

The Amazon ratings for these products aren't very promising . . . And the one above, in particular.

We've moved a lot of data to the cloud. O365, Exchange and so many Outlook accounts & files. It's not a fast and reliable solution for us yet, and I wish we hadn't gone there. But the carrot dangled in front of us ($6M in MS license costs saved) outweighed any lack of knowledge of poor performance and…

You bit off a bigger task this year, but one that has reaped wider rewards than I imagined, adatole​. I think it was the right thing to do. Are you going to pick the best and most interesting of the responses and publish a new paper or blog with them to illustrate new ideas and interpretations to the rest of the world? I…

Me, too. Our Avaya Aura gear can use all the monitoring via snmp NPM or VNQM can provide.

That part of the darkroom was one of my favorites, too. Using large-format negatives (up to 8x10 in some cases) was a specialty process if it didn't involve contact printing, and typically I did more 120 frame large-format enlargements in black and white or color. For a few years I operated a sheet-fed automated B&W large…

Or eight asterisks, like the "Pointy Haired Boss" used . . .

Thanks for this example of troubleshooting. Luckily I've not seen this particular problem with my team's 2,300 AP's, but it could be because we tunnel everything back to controllers. Still, it's a good story to keep in the back of one's mind, just in case something similar shows up in the future. There are so many…

The game plan listed above is barely a starter. At a minimum purchase and deploy NCM and then use it to examine standard compliance canned reports, and create your own. NCM's Compliance and Remediation feature makes my life a breeze when I use it to make everything consistent across SSH V2, snmp-v3, usernames, syslog…

I'd like to see valid/actual statistics about I.T. staff who don't go all the way in their own systems' security needs--because it's inconvenient and inefficient. One might assume someone in charge of firewalls, VPN tunnels, and L1-7 systems that have the ability to be made more security, would actually have that…

Extortion is extortion, but if the bad guys have the scoop on GDPR violators, let the mud be slung! It sure seems we in IT ought to be able to track these bad eggs down to help Law Enforcement catch them and to help the Courts punish them.

Wow. Was Question 12 answered by clicking on TWO choices instead of one? I picked the first one from the hint--which fits well in my environment--and was rewarded with an incorrect answer. Disappointment.

I appreciate someone admitting in the open that there are big benefits in avoiding an environment built with multiple services. One can have good things (consistency, predictability, single-place-to-call-for-tech-support-issues, etc.) from putting all the eggs in one basket, no matter how negative that description might…

"Likely." Take that word to the weather forecasters and see how they intend it. Sometimes it's focused on where the most people are located--if it's definitely going to pour buckets of rain in the country, but no rain will fall in a nearby city, how will the forecaster predict rain for the TV station's viewers?

Although it never achieved the monumental popularity of "Lasagna" or "Eat it" and their peers, I have a geek soft spot in my heart for "One More Minute." "Weird Al" Yankovic - One More Minute - YouTube "I'd rather clean all of the bathrooms in Grand Central Station--with my tongue---than spend one more minute, with you."

Security Keys / Fobs / one-time-passwords. Not inexpensive, not convenient, but perhaps the end (no successful phishing) justifies the means. On the other hand, do you ever wryly wonder out loud if A/V or other security companies ever wrote / released hacks or malware or viruses merely to increase their own business? No…

1. Select a switch in NPM that is stacked and open it in NPM 2. On the left pane, click on Switch Stack to open it and see the graphic in the right column.

I saw this one sentence and smirked loudly (is that even possible? Certainly the guy across the room noticed it!): "Sometimes, employees simply won't buy into DevOps." To which Management's ultimate response may be: "DevOps isn't anything new; it's just a word. It means 'The right way to know what to do to fill our…

Your assessment of Google's security problems associated with third-parties is spot-on! And the analysis is excellent. "Now you know THE REST of the story."

It's a good break from the rat race of e-mails & drive-by's and Help Desk tickets. It'll also help differentiate me from the rest of the Thwack Pack if I see the popular vote going away from my analysis/prediction. The one I look up to, above all others: Captain Jean Luc Picard.

Agreed--FB's app is FAR TOO INTRUSIVE and INVASIVE. It's "Like" feature enables companies to not only mine your personal history, but also that of all your FB friends. Mark Z. came up with a very insidious and attractive tool, from which far too much is extracted and used to target and track a person and their friends.…

@"tomiannelli" I like your analysis. May I offer some divergence? The shields of the enterprise do allow input from outside-to-inside (e.g.: the crew can use sensors to determine the weapons and shields status of other ships or planets, they can detect incoming storms, even use visual tools like the view screen). The way…

I'm in the same boat as you, df112 . Seeing the readability index for my writing helps me be more reader-friendly in current and future tasks. The index can help me recognize sometimes I'm verbose merely because I want to seem smarter than I might be. I don't needs that kind of ego stroking showing up in my writing; when I…

Definitely provide ALL information about your environment to your prospective SIEM providers. We learned that Cisco Wireless Controllers and firewalls easily overwhelmed our previous logging solution. We had to move to Splunk to get the ability to handle all the debug info coming our 100+ firewalls, 3000 AP's and multiple…

Crime as a service: Hasn't this always been the case? It's just easier for hired criminals to impact us surreptitiously today via networking--and we likely won't know the impact to us until MUCH later. Plus, we may never how HOW badly we are impacted. If a false story were posted about a person, which impugns their…

The Bonus words probably will wind up being an anagram for something like "Solarwinds WINNER!"

Facial Recognition and law enforcement--a VERY touchy subject these days. I can see at least two opposing sides to the issue, AND I'm not comfortable with the reliability of the technology (given past examples where innocent people were fingered as criminals). Nor am I comfortable with the information gathered remaining…