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Admins , Good Guys or "I am NOT an Idiot!"

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2008-07-29 15:19:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...boss is an idiot (and Terry's managers definitely seem pretty far gone in that direction...), than your "heroic duty" is to let them impale themselves on a sword of their idiocy, not to commit crimes (even if cybercrimes) to prevent that idiocy . Really, go find another job if you do not like the environment; good admins are needed in many...
 
Tags: terry childs, childs, guys, admins, terry childs story, bad boss, boss, underneath management, management
 
 
 
 
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Dumb Luck IS a Strategy!

2008-09-18 09:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...boss's boss's boss, it is NOT This is exactly why I think that the most critical problem in security today is METRICS . Metrics that a) work AND mean something to decision makers and b) can be clearly communicated to said decision makers [ BTW, a) and b) are two separate problems.] Metrics that cover not only threats and vulnerabilities we...
 
Tags: dumb luck, dumb luck strategy, security, security countermeasures, security professional, security program, risk, obvious huge risk, password
 
 
 
 
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Four stages to establishing a successful IT Risk Management Lifecycle

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2007-11-27 13:24:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
...boss' style you may not want to say it this blunt)." Hopefully, since it's a digestible set of items for the first time through this process it will be an easy sell and your off to the next step 3. Do it - Your peers are bought in, your boss is watching, you have a finite list of tasks to accomplish...now make it a priority and make time for...
 
Tags: risk management lifecycle, risk management, management, step process, step life cycle, step, process, time, peers
 
 
 
 
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Your 419 Mail Roundup

2008-06-25 13:29:29 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
 
...boss left with me before he travelled to England but I did not hear from you since that time till today. I went to the bank to confirm whether the draft is getting close to expire as it had been long time my boss issued the draft. The director of the bank told me that before the draft will get to you, that it will expire. Then I told him to...
 
Tags: central bank, bank, magical bank card, bank draft, email address, office email address, bank immediately, lycos lottery, office
 
 
 
 
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Vendors aren't changing focus, you were just blissfully unaware

2008-05-08 08:09:41 by HASH0x8902444 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...boss to buy their products. As he moved up to become a geek in management, he noticed the vendors shifting focus away from the technical stakeholder to the business stakeholder. Michael has a theory on some of the reasons for this shift of focus. The dotcom bubble, the evolution of IT, people making decisions on sound business principles, not...
 
Tags: sales teams, emc sales teams, business, business stakeholder, people, sales people, sales, vendors, michael
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Situations for Event Processing

2008-07-15 05:04:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...boss comes to us and says, great job on the airplane collision model, but I also want to know how much jet fuel is on the planes at the moment of our projected situation, so we can estimate the intensity of the explosion. So we need another model and our earlier very simple airplane model would inherit the jet fuel tank model our boss...
 
Tags: model, airplane collision model, simple model, model simple, situations, hierarchical model, complex model, simple airplane model, real-time situation detection
 
 
 
 
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Gonzo: Two Thumbs In and Up

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2008-07-17 10:10:12 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...boss, Ed, was his neighbor. Ed was also seriously allergic to bees. One day he was alone in his house and got stung. He was dying. Luckily Hunter was due over to his house to watch a basketball game, walked in and called 911. My boss woke up in the ambulance with Hunter pounding on him chest and screaming at him. Ed said - "Waking up to that...
 
Tags: life, security, sought security, personal security, national security emergency, software security, expensive war, war, hunter
 
 
 
 
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Log Management - Day 1

2008-07-28 11:03:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...boss (or his boss, or whoever) to decide to "address this", to "take control over logs?" Was it a new compliance mandate, PCI perhaps? Was it a recent incident where investigation hit the wall due to utter lack of logs? Was it a new corporation-wide IT efficiency improvement project? Was it a lawsuit where an e-discovery request was not...
 
Tags: log management, sap logs, logs, analyze logs, cisco asa logs, efficiency improvement project, project, log management process, log management project
 
 
 
 
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Five mistakes security pros would make again

2008-09-29 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a98 in Network World on Security
 
Ten years ago, Michael Riva was network administrator for a top-five American consultancy. Employees were downloading graphic pictures and videos onto the network. Riva told his boss a proxy server with content filtering might be in order; his boss laughed and suggested they put in a bigger file server instead
 
Tags: network, michael riva, bigger file server, riva, network administrator, top-five american consultancy, boss, graphic pictures, proxy server