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Rapid7 has powerful tools & processes & information. So powerful that they cause DDOS outages on multiple devices within my network daily or weekly as our internal Security tests our passwords and seeks insecure protocols. While inconvenient for our staff (we have to look into every network outage, every reboot caused by…

Pretty sure I just saw a Time Travel option in a Mission . . .

Sometimes sweating the petty things can make for consistent and positive outcomes. "Five things to ask yourself . . . " * How in love with . . . * How confident . . . * Do your thoughts . . . * How thick . . . * From what do you derive . . . * Is Management for . . .

I received my "NetPath Less Travelled" award for Christmas--nice timing! What other awards were sent this year? Was there a "Thwackster Of The Year" or equivalent? That would be my target to earn next time!

Computer viruses, like "I Love You", seem to me to be another sign of poorly managed children, poorly defined senses or morals and ethics. There's no need for them. But unsupervised people continue writing them, for malicious intent or for hoped-for profits, or both. Let's take responsibility for not doing a good job of…

My wife earned a Master's Degree in Business Administration on this very topic in 2004. The electronic medical health record (EMHR or EHR) represented a big challenge to some of the staff and patients in our hospital system, and she was part of the group introducing it and helping to make it work. It was surprising to see…

I realize I'm not "anti-A.I.". At least not yet. I'm against it being used to reduce my privacy and security in any way. Simultaneously I'm FOR it solving problems and providing answers that benefit all people. Not benefit hackers, or mal-people, or companies' profit margins at my expense, or political groups no matter…

The story about the Internet Hoarders was also an interesting one. I listened to a similar story on NPR about folks who wanted to research old TV advertisements and shows and found many of them had been deleted, their video tapes overwritten in the early 1970's. Now there is (apparently) a growing repository of the old TV…

Someone's using MFA we didn't already set up to prevent us from clearing up hacking of our own accounts? Imagine that. Internet anonymity, coupled with the lack of a way to quickly detect and correct anti-social behavior, results in bad actions that negatively affect people who aren't up to speed with doing the right thing…

The story about best practices for video conferencing is a good one. But it doesn't go far enough. Someone accustomed to their home environment can easily fall into old/bad habits while listening to others on the video conference, forgetting they can see everyone's face. Yawning (even on mute), eye-rolling after…

We've touched the tip of the customization iceberg and have liked what we've found. I just simply added another tab on the left, configured items there to be invisible if they don't apply, and got a lot of additional functionality, depending on which device I look at.

Will next Month feature an Opening Fishin' Mission? Perhaps only in northern tier states, since Fishing Season's probably open year-round, or at least earlier, in Southern climes, compared to here in Minnesota.

I'd be up for a virtual lab or video session going through a demonstration of using PerfStack to troubleshoot a set of "real" test lab problems, much like Question 2 in Week 1.

At the end of the Mission, the answers will be posted.

​Good Advice:​ OK, I took a bit of the devil's advocate stance when I read the first portion of this article. But eventually it swung around to a way of thinking I could work with. Remembering that tech toys & tools are simply a means to an end, instead of their own be-all and end-all, IS the right point of view. But just…

There are many cases of voice-activated services like Siri or Alexa doing things their owners regret. A digital fingerprint isn't sufficient to prevent those bad events from occurring. Deleting the service might be.

For those of you familiar with SNL in the 70's & early 80's:

I'd go a step further in defining your idea of compliances versus secure: If you are in compliance with external auditors' standards, you still should have an internal corporate Security standard with which your equipment and processes should comply. First complying with the external agency's standards helps keep you out…

If you're surprised Fake News spreads faster than truth, it begs the question: Did you never play "Telephone" as a child?

I upgraded my primary NPM instance and three pollers to V12 tonight. It took about two hours after the database backup and VM snapshots were complete. Much of that time could have been reduced by doing more things simultaneously instead of sequentially, but I wanted to carefully analyze any errors or messages that came up…

Facebook, Facebook . . . what are we going to do with you? When people turn to you for advice, while demonstrating poor thinking, and you choose to profit off their misinformed ideas . . . shame on you! Based on that story, Facebook's willing will make money off people doing wishful thinking, and companies who target their…

The movie "Solo" explained it well for me. I'm satisfied. 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Solves The Kessel Run Problem (Ignore the video--it doesn't discuss the Kessel Run. It merely shows how Han is the more humane character by pointing out he caused less loss of life Luke.) From the body of the text in this site: 'Solo'…

At the risk of seeming to blow an old horn, if you want to get Solarwinds' products, yet you are concerned you may run into roadblocks from your boss or higher management, read this blog post I shared previously. Once you understand the rules of "the game" by which they require you to play (or how they need you to speak in…

I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's NSFW, in my book, but I can imagine the wedding.

There are so MANY examples of folks being busy, but not being productive. NPM can be busy and still be unproductive, if you've not configured it for the right alerts, the right parent/child dependencies, etc. How many meetings have we all attended--we're "busy" according to our Calendars--and yet we're unproductive due to…

I've bought into the Kindle Unlimited solution, even as others have purchased other (apparently unlimited) online solutions for music or video or books. The fallacy of this access remains in the license costs. I have "free" access to all those books I've read, and MANY more I have not read, as long as I continue paying…

Norm! (Crosby)

It's interesting when there's money to pay to outsource a service, but that same money isn't available to develop it in-house, to train internal staff so they have new skills and increase their value to the employer. And it's also interesting how outsourcing that service doesn't outsource responsibility for problems with…

For better or worse, a NAC product can be a part of a successful control of BYOD devices. Perhaps even more important is creating a corporate policy regarding use, or no use, or BYOD; create it, review it, get buy-in from the C-level, publish it, enforce it, and have consequences for violating it. Test users' knowledge of…