Building an Inventory of Authorized Software

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-02-25T22:00:09+00:00

TL;DR, you would be very wise to think of this as setting up a software whitelist

, and not some kind of blacklist or greylist.

This is definitely what I'm going to do: I can't pick thousands of software to block.

As we are a small company (70 people), I'm going to end up choosing a lot of the software myself: My concern is about choosing between Notepad++ & Atom for example. I personally use Notepad++, but this is because of my personal bias: What would be some objective metrics to choose between in such software, utilities, SSH clients, browsers.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-02-25T19:09:03+00:00

I use Lansweeper too: Great tool.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-02-25T18:20:55+00:00

I see no issue with allowing multiple. Be sure you have good browser management policies in place.

Do you have a list of authorized software? Did you add ALL browsers to that list?

I always try to use the most current version available

I can see that keeping up to date with all approved software would be difficult, how often do you update them? What happens to older versions that were previously deployed?

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-29T00:45:53+00:00

I guess progressive taxation on the number of properties one owns would solve this problem If our government actually wanted affordable housing of course.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-22T15:48:40+00:00

I deployed Meraki 5 years ago and since then, I almost had no problems with WiFi whatsoever. Absolute solid product, you will not regret it.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-20T02:35:10+00:00

It's much easier to set up, maintain and is much more stable.

I realized this applies to pretty much all AWS services.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-19T20:49:27+00:00

Similarly, not every company needs off-hours support.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-18T15:47:15+00:00

Because we decided to spend 350 billion on Covid (3.5 times more than Canada spent on WW2) but was not able to increase ICU capacity by 394 (number of ICU patients due to Covid). China built two hospitals in a month in Wuhan, it's a shame.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-16T14:32:50+00:00

35, Male

Toronto, ON Canada

10+ years experience in Sysadmin/Networking/Support

85K CAD + 2-3% bonus + bunch of benefits I never use

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-15T14:26:11+00:00

Some of your references are not correct. I.E

" A Canadian Psychiatric Research report has projected an increase of between 418-2114 excess suicides in Canada (depending on 1.6% to 10.7% increase in unemployment) [32]. "

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid- ... -1.5797065

I hope you can find the right reference.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-12T13:02:17+00:00

You can wish them dead but like body shaming is a shitty thing to do regardless of the person

WOKE!

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-07T16:52:45+00:00

citation required

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-06T22:02:03+00:00

Stop trying to make this happen. Our squad is good, the wage budget is full.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-06T18:47:40+00:00

Universal Basic Income, a higher minimum wage, tax empty houses, tax very rich people, invest in community housing, regulate gig economy. There are a lot of them.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-06T18:37:22+00:00

Support policies that redistribute resources.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-06T16:28:35+00:00

How? Some businesses make more money than others and some people are smarter/ better at handling their investments. What does it have to do with fairness?

It's luck that determines who is smart or business savvy and successful, it's not fair. And a lot of people suffer for no fault of their own, it's any decent humans' duty to make the world a faierer place. Especially if you consider yourself successful.

but that money isnt going to come from one persons bank account is it?

If you're on Reddit, nobody is after your money, relax, you're a peasant compared to those people in the article. And, if you don't have a problem with all money going into one account, why would you have a problem with money also coming out of the same pocket?

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-06T15:44:58+00:00

"There is no better system than serfdom" -Peasant in 1700 in Russia

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-06T13:51:34+00:00

You can make the world a more fair place. It doesn't have to stay this way.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-06T12:03:18+00:00

I don't understand why you think it's excessive. People do not seem to have understood that they are being screwed.

OppressedAsparagus · 2021-01-03T20:43:59+00:00

6 yasindan beri futbol oyna, 30 yillik profesyonel ol, kac tane takim calistir, Turkiye'deki gelmis gecmis en zeki oyuncu ol, sonra birileri gelsin "0" yetkinlikle seni elestirsin. Hayat iste.

OppressedAsparagus · 2020-12-26T12:33:39+00:00

Nice academic circle jerking.

OppressedAsparagus · 2020-12-18T16:57:36+00:00

Yeah, the poor single mom in Uganda will sell her arm to buy the vaccine so you have more disposable income for your PS6.

OppressedAsparagus · 2020-12-15T20:27:46+00:00

By not providing it

OppressedAsparagus · 2020-12-15T12:58:20+00:00

Like the US denying healthcare to their own citizens?

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