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...
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...
A few weeks ago, I read an article that provided significant insight into the Spy vs Spy battles between the Unites States and Russia. Title: Russia carried out a ‘stunning’ breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil It was...
Ransomware is skyrocketing – but we really shouldn’t be surprised. In fact, many in the cybersecurity community saw it coming. To set the tone for what I’m talking about, here are just a few of the recent headlines pertaining to ransomware: ...
This past week I read a pretty interesting article, posted on SiliconANGLE, about vulnerabilities found in cloud applications. It had the unfortunate title of: Report finds 34M vulnerabilities across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure This was compounded by the lead off...
