COTSE-Ban the US Mail!
This is great, again COTSE comes through with a very insightful article about current ideas out in the media.
The other day, I spent an hour with Cheryl Harrison, meeting up as part of her Fast Friends experiment. (Which is an interesting experiment in ad of itself.) One of the things we were discussing was the various ways people connect online now. I was regaling my new, young, friend with tales of having to…
It’s hard not to agree with Sean’s takeaway, when your data is being hosted elsewhere, a lax security profile can have some serious effect on your business. One you can’t do anything about. “Organizations using full-service IT-managed service providers, such as Magnolia Pediatrics, are particularly at risk because the security of all of their systems…
This is not as easy as he makes it sound: And then lastly is learning from all these three elements – the user, the device, the least privilege, and adapting your policies. So it’s a constant learning and adapting, changing the policies. For instance, if Jane never executes certain commands on a Unix machine, let’s…
On the latest In the Trenches, Kevin was talking about using checklists, especially when working on a number of machines at once. This weekend was a perfect example of another good reason to have checklists. We were rolling out software upgrades by rolling out a new desktop image to about 120 desktops. This, unfortunately, required…
What this does is tell us that Equifax isn’t all that different than law firms. Sure, we want to make sure patches and updates are applied, we all have a time set aside to do exactly that on a regular basis. We tell everyone when it’s time to do that, and during the updates certain…
According to Mike Elgan, if they purchase Twitter, that’ll be exactly what they are developing with Google Profiles. Is it possible that is what Google is planning? Sure. Could they develop something absolutely, positively, useful? Obviously they know how to do that with other products. Will it “kill” Facebook? Eh, maybe. This actually brings up…