It is quite an understatement to say that many people will be very happy to leave 2020 behind. But, as we prepare to enter 2021, we should take stock of the various lessons that we have learned this year, and endeavor to apply them in 2021 and beyond.Today, I’m...
This past month, I put together a new utility, SyslogTally, because I needed to easily and quickly answer a question pertaining to how frequently various scripts were being used in my environment. Original Need This question about script usage frequency first arose...
Once upon a time, I needed to get a quick and dirty file integrity checking process in place for Windows systems so that we could meet a customer compliance requirement that was growing more and more popular. FIM – File Integrity Monitoring At the time, we were...
There’s a saying in project management that been attributed to Jack Bergman, “there’s never enough time to do it right the first time, but there’s time to dot it over.” Sadly, many leaders and organizations appear to operate by this maxim. According to a report by...
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat them. Don’t be that organization… Back in September of 2017, Avast indicated that the network of its recently acquired (July 2017) subsidiary had been infiltrated, and that its CCleaner...
