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I'm surprised I missed the Store opening back up--I check it daily, sometimes twice in a day. I can attest to the quality of the Break My Day coffee mug, having ordered one last Thwack Camp. It's a nice product. Now the Charger and Blanket and Hoodie are ordered, and should soon be on their way to keeping me warm & powered…
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Is the RC completed yet?
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The Top Tips for Securely Working Remotely article seemed lightweight. The steps defined required a business or person to have their ducks in a row long ago. No one's going to be able to do anything with that data when the employees all went to work from home last week. I was hoping for emergent items that could be…
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MMmmm . . . that sounds GREAT right about now!
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I'll cast a vote for another seemingly obvious, but often overlooked/ignored problem that tools can help fix: Silos. IT departments can become separated from each other by simple commonalities and specialization. They can also be silo'd--or isolated--through Management error or intent. When the DBA's all sit in one area,…
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Particularly when one comment or two in a Geek Speak article can make the Leap!
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That DEFINITELY belongs in the Bacon Edition of the Alt Actuator. Alternate Actuator: The Bacon Edition
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Nice! But had to listen from home since it’s filtered by our corporate Websense because it’s recognized as a Media File Download. Heaven forbid affordable filtering solutions would be sophisticated enough to recognize and allow or block based on content . . .
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I love high resolution videos as well as the next person--maybe more, given my engineering / photography / music background. But taking a walk outside & listening to the wind in the pine bows beats a video by a long shot. Save the personal streaming bits for folks who need the bandwidth to help get food to your stores,…
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I like the two ideas offered already: use great Change Management and have a thoroughly deployed and fully discovered & documented CMDB. Yet those are two processes that might not be the right places to start when troubleshooting. Perhaps a different troubleshooting process to start with simply involves verifying and…
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For a pretty fun expansion on dolphin communications (in a science fiction venue), start with "Day Of The Dolphin" and move onto "The Uplift Wars"
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Agreed. "If it's not in the ticket, it didn't happen" is NOT great DevOps behavior. On the other hand, if it's not in the ticket, someone's wasting other people's time getting them to do the triage and diagnostics that should have been done when the ticket was first created. In part, that's an issue when giving all users…
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Wow--the story about "feedback" was WAY more than I expected. I appreciate "good" feedback--when I get to define what's "good" in my own terms and needs. LIke you, feedback fatigue is real. But worse, requests for feedback seem to be tied to spam, PHI gathering, social engineering, and worse. I'm happy with providing…
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Voting down, or voting "no" is not a dream crusher, and should never be taken that way. Folks can vote it up, ignore it if they have no opinion, or vote it down. No harm, no foul. Nothing personal.
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Between Microsoft's MFA solution and others (e.g.: Duo), I smile and shake my head when folks (who used to get "easy" remote access through VPN via simple https and a clientless solution) object to being forced to install and use security-access-apps on their smart phones. "I won't do it." "It's too intrusive." "I don't…
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There's never a dull Wednesday anymore, now that The Actuator shows up mid week. Thanks for keeping this going!
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Surrounded by other no-name Super Hero types: Check. Complaints about funding being insufficient to get the staff needed to get the job done right: Check. You're right--more and more Deadpool situations show up as I analyze my environment.
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I'm no expert, but I feel that Barr's belief in creating back doors is worth the decreased security is not the right path to follow. Remember the W.O.P.R. and how Matthew Broderick found a back door that might have ended life on Earth. Granted it was only a movie, but it illustrates a valid point.
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One of our CISSP's bought a DVD recorder and remote security cam monitor solution from Alibaba. His home network is locked down tighter than you know what, and as soon as that unit was powered on and plugged in, it started trying to send pictures from all his home security cameras to an IP address in China. He hadn't…
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If I understand your questions: * There's nothing "wrong", per se, in making a new backup image daily, weekly, or monthly. The problems with this philosophy include:* The cost in time to do the work * The cost in management to track and restore the appropriate image, or series of images (if you were doing incremental…
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I can't access the Twitter feed from work. Might anyone care to make screen shots & share them?
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Where can users download the protocol packs from? From a vendor like Cisco? Or from Solarwinds? Once they're downloaded, where are they to be installed? On every APE? Or on switches & routers? What's the process to install them?
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Yep. That's why I put training above firing. IF folks know the consequences and continue to abuse the system, then the consequences must be applied to them. You're right--some folks feel IT/Security is a frequent preventer instead of an enabler. Everyone hates getting busted for doing something stupid/ignorant; but they…
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Some seem obvious predictions, others more interesting. I'll go out on a very-short branch and predict: * Cloud penetration by malware, organized crime, hackers, and internal and foreign agents and countries will increase exponentially. Companies and users will mostly remain ignorant of this until their data is…
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Crown Sterling is coming off like the Beer manufacturer that states THEIR beer has no bad ingredient X, leaving the viewer to assume some/many/all other beer makers DO have that bad ingredient in their beer. Anheuser-Busch is sued by MillerCoors for corn syrup claim during Super Bowl commercial - The Washington Post
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I'd sum it up from a Network Administrator's viewpoint like this: 1. Get NCM 2. Get every device into NCM that's possible 3. Back up the configs at least daily, and consider enabling/configuring Real-Time Configuration Change Detection 4. Compare configs at least daily and analyze them for issues 5. Use NCM's Compliance &…
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I'm reminded that sometimes we DO need firewalls outside of the physical/logical network--as we build our professional relationships. We're told, by those who really know, that "social networking" is one of the big vulnerabilities to corporate security. That a successfully "black hat" or "white hat" may hang out at local…
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On BICYCLES! You were RAD! "Run Silent, Run Deep", "Operation Tokyo", "Dam Busters" were all great classics--listening to war stories as if the actual veterans who experienced them were telling me their tales in person.
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Those funky glasses come from a robot toy from the 50's.
