I'm playing right now... I'm looking for the spiders now... they must be in outer space, controlling the satelite and planning to destroy key parts of my city. Bastards.
But I seriously agree with you, the best you can do is lock down the network as much as possible as far as what comes in and out of your building. Heck even isolating different parts of your internal network to help reduce traffic, is a good idea for both performance and security. IT (heh) gets more complicated when you add more connections, more networks, everyone needs to talk to this one machine...etc
But who's going to do a better job stopping the worms/viri getting on to windows machines? The master of penguins? or king of the windows?
The next-most-sought-after features were performance, second; and high availability, third.
I'm just curious...
It talks a lot about how staffing hasn't gone up. But an admin worth his salt will make his job easier over time. Creating scripts, getting the hang of how to fix problem x the fastest. Getting used to patching/upgrading. I guess the real problems occur when large scale changes take place. Everyone migrates to another platform, or building X Y and Z now connect remotely. But as far as the usual day to day issues, if you're caught up I don't see what the big hassle is... the more you automate for yourself the easier it becomes.
It would be nice if these large transitions were better planned. Such that in large corporations more of the IT would shift to where the major upheaval is occuring (I'm guessing that there usually isn't enough IT to throw at the problems). I'm also guessing that often times the magnitude of these transistions are underestimated in terms of time needed, and people. But once again, I still don't see the 'normal' day to day conditions being a major problem for someone who has settled in. Of course I could be completely off base and will raise holy hell with a whole bunch of sys admins / varied IT peoples who will declare some sort of technical jihad, and come busting down my door in 5 minutes telling me how really wrong I am.
What do you do when he brings his virus-laden laptop into the office BEHIND your firewalls and plugs it in?
Utilize the network admin's 22 calibour pistol...
People are inherently averse to getting screwed, in the way that Intel is doing mind you, and if you try to screw people, they will avoid you.
I thought people on slashdot were inherently incapable of being screwed... Please see previous articles on roleplaying.
If static IP's were used wouldn't it make 99% of the problem go away? the remaining 1% being the guy who dutifully copies his IP on his workstation so he can plug something else into the network using his workstation IP. Like Xboxes or internet enabled coffee makers.
Well they can jam all the radio signals in Canada that they want, (would that interfere with people's home wireless internet routers?....) well anyway, the point is that people will communicate no matter how many restrictions you put in place. Cell phones are more likely to prevent an attack than to be the method used to organize one anyway!!! this is sheer Canadian Stupidity if you ask me. How much protection are they offering the protestors anyway!?!? there seems to be MORE people there than super-rich people (or leaders) at these summits anyway... oh well... I can't wait for the Canadian gov't to have this one come back and bite them where it hurts.
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I'm playing right now... I'm looking for the spiders now... they must be in outer space, controlling the satelite and planning to destroy key parts of my city. Bastards.
Bill gates agrees with your Subject title ;)
But I seriously agree with you, the best you can do is lock down the network as much as possible as far as what comes in and out of your building. Heck even isolating different parts of your internal network to help reduce traffic, is a good idea for both performance and security. IT (heh) gets more complicated when you add more connections, more networks, everyone needs to talk to this one machine...etc
But who's going to do a better job stopping the worms/viri getting on to windows machines? The master of penguins? or king of the windows?
I'm just curious...
It talks a lot about how staffing hasn't gone up. But an admin worth his salt will make his job easier over time. Creating scripts, getting the hang of how to fix problem x the fastest. Getting used to patching/upgrading. I guess the real problems occur when large scale changes take place. Everyone migrates to another platform, or building X Y and Z now connect remotely. But as far as the usual day to day issues, if you're caught up I don't see what the big hassle is... the more you automate for yourself the easier it becomes.
It would be nice if these large transitions were better planned. Such that in large corporations more of the IT would shift to where the major upheaval is occuring (I'm guessing that there usually isn't enough IT to throw at the problems). I'm also guessing that often times the magnitude of these transistions are underestimated in terms of time needed, and people. But once again, I still don't see the 'normal' day to day conditions being a major problem for someone who has settled in. Of course I could be completely off base and will raise holy hell with a whole bunch of sys admins / varied IT peoples who will declare some sort of technical jihad, and come busting down my door in 5 minutes telling me how really wrong I am.
Is the Nick OpenSauceKing taken?...
I for one welcome our new shoe stealing overlords!
What do you do when he brings his virus-laden laptop into the office BEHIND your firewalls and plugs it in?
Utilize the network admin's 22 calibour pistol...
People are inherently averse to getting screwed, in the way that Intel is doing mind you, and if you try to screw people, they will avoid you.
I thought people on slashdot were inherently incapable of being screwed... Please see previous articles on roleplaying.
If static IP's were used wouldn't it make 99% of the problem go away? the remaining 1% being the guy who dutifully copies his IP on his workstation so he can plug something else into the network using his workstation IP. Like Xboxes or internet enabled coffee makers.
Is that a Bannana in your PCI slot, or are you just happy to see me?
Well they can jam all the radio signals in Canada that they want, (would that interfere with people's home wireless internet routers?....) well anyway, the point is that people will communicate no matter how many restrictions you put in place. Cell phones are more likely to prevent an attack than to be the method used to organize one anyway!!! this is sheer Canadian Stupidity if you ask me. How much protection are they offering the protestors anyway!?!? there seems to be MORE people there than super-rich people (or leaders) at these summits anyway... oh well... I can't wait for the Canadian gov't to have this one come back and bite them where it hurts.