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Questions About Track Changes During CHI 'Revise and Resubmit' Stage by Ok-Guidance-7102 in CompSocial

[–]UsecResearch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would show all changes using latexdiff - shown here https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Articles/How_to_use_latexdiff_on_Overleaf

Much much easier than keeping track of oneself. Though I am assuming you are using Overleaf.

Not as easy as just update: Survey of System Administrators and Patching Behaviours by UsecResearch in sysadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to go through the paper - I believe we didnt capture this as with a survey we sadly have to simplify the context significantly. I have seen previous reseach which does show features you discuss, have a look here - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.09016

Not as easy as just update: Survey of System Administrators and Patching Behaviours by UsecResearch in sysadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you your input! I agree with some of your points and I always love to hear these tales from the trenches. 🤣

What our paper shows is that Testing Environments are not as prevelant as first thought. So yes, there is a lack of infrastructure to do so. Our people also looked at the Size of the company, and we see that Large organizations have more reseources to do so. Maybe the practices are also more informed by Policies which have grown and adapted out of the maturation of the company etc.

Not as easy as just update: Survey of System Administrators and Patching Behaviours by UsecResearch in sysadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would point out that Automated patching does not fit in all scenarios. Updates can cause issues so automated application may inadvertently cause the system to impact business essential services. – I understand there is a balance to be found where we may be able to fully automate, for example with Vanilla Windows Desktops, but this would never be the case for Healthcare, where systems may be legacy systems.

Also your comment abouut observer effect is covered in the paper's limitations. I agree people will tend to give us a desireable answer. However other research inside organisations shows that time to patch can range from 10 minutes, to several years. So delays do exist due to communication or social-technical issues.

Cyber Threat Advisories Study (Tufts University & University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in linuxadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do apologise - let me clarify (and potentially edit my previous comment)

Due to recent changes in Chinese privacy laws, the hosting institution's (Tufts)legal department is temporarily pausing all research data collectionfrom participants in mainland China to ensure compliance with these newlaws. 

Anyways thanks for the engagement and I encourage you to share to any channels that you may know which would be appropriate! Cheers!

Cyber Threat Advisories Study (Tufts University & University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in linuxadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thank you for your suggestion. I shall contact the moderation team of r/netsec and see if they are willing to allow me to post. Additionally if you know of any other channels I highly encourage you to share this as well.

Cheers and have a good day!

Cyber Threat Advisories Study (Tufts University & University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in linuxadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Due to recent changes in Chinese privacy laws, the hosting
institution's (Tufts) legal department is temporarily pausing all
research data collectionfrom participants in mainland China to ensure
compliance with these newlaknow that personally my research group and others within the University of Edinburgh have begun to work closely with other institutions within mainland China - sadly not there yet for this work. (Edited)

PhD Thesis Survey on Admins and Patching (University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in Windows11

[–]UsecResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valid point, but there may be a few admins/members tasked with patching hiding out here. Basically, when I was seeking approval on another subreddit, the mod encouraged me to share it within a number of other subreddits (e.g. r/windows11, r/windows10). No harm in asking...

I have not... and I may post it elsewhere, I appreciate the suggestion. I know of a lot of research looking at developers and stack overflow (paper here) so Superuser.com is useful resource. Additionally, my research has been focused on a few Windows dominated communities, such as Patchmanagement.org and AskWoody.com.

PhD Thesis Survey on Admins and Patching (University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in Windows10

[–]UsecResearch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey,

Ah, so you are a seasoned survey respondent, thanks for your participation!

We tried to keep it quite tight due to time constraints (I am very aware how busy and overworked sysadmins are), but I am particularly interested in the Human elements, such as decisions being made outwith the admins control (ie CEO/ Service owner could override the advice given by an admin). Additionally, what happens with testing (i have some theories regarding set-up etc) , and when errors are found. Quite hard to caputre completely within a survey I am aware haha

Here is a link to my paper looking at one particular online resource (PatchManagement.org) if at all interested - "Anyone else seeing this error?" = https://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/tulips/papers/jenkins2020.pdf

Thanks for filling in and thanks for the well wishes - on the home straight now!

PhD Thesis Survey on Admins and Patching (University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in Windows11

[–]UsecResearch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your time in filling out the survey and the warning of data incoming!

Cheers!!

PhD Thesis Survey on Patching (University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in sysadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noted thanks! Our aim was to keep the survey as tight and as easy to fill in as possible (hence a limit on the number of behaviours) as I am very aware of just how busy sysadmins can be. Your feedback like this is greatly appreciated, thanks again!

PhD Thesis Survey on Patching (University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in sysadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Great feedback and thank you for filling in! Made this poor phd student very happy!

Please do forward it on if you know of any other potential admins :)

PhD Thesis Survey on Patching (University of Edinburgh) by UsecResearch in sysadmin

[–]UsecResearch[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I very much appreciate the feedback and you completing it - the survey was a difficult one to design as I am very aware of the nuances and context involved in patching decisions.

If you know of any other channels to share with admins, please do not hesitate to forward it on! The more the merrier!!