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When Microsoft invests $5B per year on IoT Security alone, then we can start talking about IoT starting to be something that one-day will be safe to use. But IoT isn't secure enough to use yet..

I, too, will be interested in learning how much NPM can do with FirePower. But failing closed, rather than open, is the desired solution in my environment. I don't want folks getting in if the firewall breaks. Of course, if access is critical, and if you have budget, you deployed multiple HA / resilient firewalls--in case…

Thank you, Will.

Youch! Preventing this? Hmm. Maybe the upgrade process should automatically check for .NET 4.5.1 and then install 4.5.2? At a minimum, the instructions should call out this problem so a person can expect it and be ready with 4.5.2.

Thanks for the list! Lately my reading's been all Kindle for Android; the free S/F has been very entertaining. I confess, I use it to escape from IT pressures.

In past missions we've seen the Demo data change steadily over time, just as it would in the real world. The trick to avoid missing the right data may be be to do the Mission on the day it's released. It's probably not unrealistic to expect the Hint for that day's Question to only be valid for that day, given how the Demo…

I like the lessons here. Back in the 90's I brought up a full web site (from scratch) for a non-profit for the sheer enjoyment of their ventures. There were few (no?) standard web design apps available they could afford, so I learned and built html pages for them with Notepad and IE and Netscape. I'd never do that…

It's no challenge to predict you'll get all positive responses to this topic. Wiki says DevOps is "an agile relationship between Development and IT Operations" achieved through improved communications between those two groups. Isn't that what SW's been advocating for years? Breaking through the silos? And seeing all the…

Cisco ASA's provide bandwidth consumed per username; it's displayed easily in ASDM. One would hope Solarwinds NPM could access this info and present it in views, and leverage it to create reports.

Our corporate policy mandates that IE is the default browser on all equipment. Which means that all hot links automatically open up in IE. Fortunately some of the higher-ups have run into the same problems as the lower-downs, and have allowed Chrome and Mozilla to be installed in parallel to IE. I'll be incredibly weird…

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I'll respectfully disagree in one detail. Instead of defining where someone can or cannot eat, perhaps it's better to require them to get their ducks in a row, fix internal problems, and speak appropriately in public venues, don't you think? It makes perfect sense to be able to eat anywhere, even in a restaurant frequented…

Uh oh. Now we disagree with each other when you (effectively) say "Apple is good because it prevents the police from helping solve crimes." That's actually a definition of a "bad guy" in my books. Yes, I enjoy my privacy. No, I don't think keeping the police out of my phone falls into that definition of privacy. I'd be…

Naw--do what's fun. If you enjoy studying for certs, do that instead! It's YOUR time--spend it with a friend, doing what you love. No one ever went to the grave saying "If only I'd gotten that technical certification, that pay raise, etc." They go wishing they'd spent more time doing with they love, with the people they…

Naw, data is all BitCoin, and needs no protections. It just needs a bunch of miners with spare CPU time . . .

I'd heard about the Fenn Treasure via public radio a while ago. I enjoyed the premise, doubted the altruism of its creator just a bit, and had no sympathy for those who searched for it and became obsessed, injured, or died. Shakespeare wrote of the value of two kinds of treasure (things versus reputation) way back in 1603:…

An MX64 is referenced.

Last week's break from missions was appreciated. Now, back to it!

The goal seems achievable if, and only if, the server and its supporting services, resources, and clients' needs are very thoroughly understood by those who implement the monitoring. I'll go so far as to suggest if the monitoring people don't grok the server and all its needs, monitoring is likely to be inappropriate--too…

Let there be an Easy Button that removes my name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and all contact handles from every person and business and database that I have not explicitly shared and acknowledged.

I'm related to royalty? Frankly: who cares? Your worth comes from how you act, not from your distant genetics. Maximize your potential, educate yourself, be kind and practice altruism. And you'll be superior to any king, queen, president, premier, dictator, shah, emperor, or czar in every way that matters.

Anyone can feel free to repeatedly comment on, or "bump", an idea to keep it in the front of folks' attention. But giving someone more than one vote eliminates the benefit of SW being able to actually see how many people want/dont-want a feature/product. I respect your idea and your enthusiasm to get something going, but:…

I apologize for being a stickler for grammar: None of today's answers actually is a viable answer to the question, since none of the answers provides anything to deal with lowering possibility of attacks. Lowering the possibility of SUCCESSFUL attacks, yes. But not decreasing attacks themselves. OK. Am I being too literal?…

So far 13 of 50 MVP's contacted have responded. 13 of 13 have had pencil lead beneath the skin. Maybe it's more common among the general population than I thought. Could the probability actually approach unity?

If you need to trust your data and apps and customers to Application Service Providers who want you to think you should call their service a "cloud" because "no one knows where your data really is," then you're stuck. Force your ASP to provide SLAs and provide significant penalty payments for indemnity in case your data is…

Facebook not doing the right thing? No surprise there. Reading their caveats or EULA or whatever they call it shows they're interested in using personal information of others for profit. Disappointing, but hardly surprising.

Uff da! Such a low-level, manual way to get the information you want! If only there were a way to pull this into Solarwinds Orion NPM and display it as a modular tab in a single pane of glass . . . It would be updated in real time, correlated to other environmental changes and events. Wow--Excel doing this seems pretty…

Naw . . . I just suspect the content put out there for you to use was not spell-checked before it made it to you. Always blame the publisher.

I want to work there's time for this kind of fun! I'm not criticizing in any way, so please don't take it as such. My job's got too many demands for me to get the mental relaxation that comes with a little fun creativity like you'd done here. Kudos to you!

designerfx​, did you mean to query me about ACI? The thread you responded to is about ASA's and FTD and FMC, not ACI. We installed ACI in Network-Centric mode to make the move from a legacy Nexus datacenter environment in a timely manner. Then we discovered that Network-Centric mode doesn't support the segmentation…