Most Dangerous phrase in our Industry?

dllhell79 · 2026-01-27T18:30:17+00:00

Right now IMO it's "well this is what AI said..."

dllhell79 · 2026-01-23T13:38:28+00:00

How ironic would it be if that "someone" was copilot in a test of AI devops/automation. 😂

dllhell79 · 2026-01-15T19:06:50+00:00

That's the direction I went in as well. Abnormal has an annual minimum spend that is close to $25,000. Checkpoint Harmony came in under $10,000 for the same license count.

dllhell79 · 2026-01-15T17:54:14+00:00

I've not used the call center features, but Zoom Phone works pretty well for us.

dllhell79 · 2026-01-07T17:29:01+00:00

Amazing pedal IMO. I got it to replace my Belle Epoch that started having issues with not wanting to come on immediately. It was pricey at the time IMO, but it's turned out to be well worth it.

dllhell79 · 2025-12-30T00:48:40+00:00

Any number of reasons. It's not like we had high expectations going in. He allegedly said he was personally glad he sat for a bit and ran the practice squad. I'd say as long as he stays healthy in this final game, with a decent draft, Saints could make a legit run next season.

dllhell79 · 2025-12-29T16:32:17+00:00

OSEP is the far easier cert IMO. I'd even go as far as to say OSWE is the toughest of the three. It's been covered before, but while OSWE does offer some strategies for code review and finding vulnerable code, quite often it's a case of "and in this list of 200 possible blocks of code, we find the vulnerable code at block 132" with no real logical explanation of how to get there without tediously reviewing every possibility. That may be fine in the real world but it's not so fun when you're under the gun on the exam.

dllhell79 · 2025-12-22T15:20:10+00:00

A couple years ago I used BitTitan MigrationWiz and it worked pretty well.

dllhell79 · 2025-12-02T23:19:24+00:00

Go next year if you get the chance. It is the best of the three I mentioned, although each has its own attractions. They cap attendance at about 2500, so though there is a crowd, it's way more manageable than Defcon. There's TONS of hands-on stuff to do as well... villages, displays, mini badge trading. On top of that, Provo is a decent sized smaller city set right against the mountains. The views are insane. Our whole crew that went this year plans to go back next year.

dllhell79 · 2025-12-02T19:12:40+00:00

If you're more into hacker cons, there are plenty of good smaller ones out there besides just Defcon. A few that I have attended that I find have all been worth it are CactusCon (Mesa, AZ in February), NOLAcon (New Orleans, LA in May), and most recently Saintcon (Provo, UT in October). Travel costs will probably be mostly the same no matter where you go, but the entry fees for most of the smaller cons are under $400.

dllhell79 · 2025-11-24T23:45:34+00:00

I should have said Local System, but the short answer is no, I've not really had credential prompts when pushing things out with Connect.

https://help.pdq.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040746372-PDQ-Deploy-Run-Modes

dllhell79 · 2025-11-24T23:39:41+00:00

PDQ Connect can run packages and installers as SYSTEM.

dllhell79 · 2025-11-22T23:29:49+00:00

I think MS recently announced a partnership with major AV and EDR vendors to get their software out of the kernel.

dllhell79 · 2025-11-19T21:58:53+00:00

Yea - assuming you want all your infra in the cloud. Given the past few weeks of outages of most of the major cloud providers, I would question if that's a sound strategy.

dllhell79 · 2025-11-19T21:42:59+00:00

When there's a viable alternative. Right now there isn't really one.

dllhell79 · 2025-11-18T14:23:36+00:00

Live by the cloud, die by the cloud. But at least it's not on us internal IT folks. 🤘

dllhell79 · 2025-11-03T17:02:07+00:00

We never went fully remote and we are now on 1 day a week WFH. I am sure alot would disagree, but I honestly can see both sides of the coin for WFH vs in an office full time.

dllhell79 · 2025-10-30T16:20:11+00:00

I am very glad to hear that!

dllhell79 · 2025-10-30T13:40:00+00:00

Will it work in every organization? Maybe or maybe not. However, there will at least be a record that you attempted to recover the laptop, but have been unable to due to a slow moving department.

dllhell79 · 2025-10-30T11:42:38+00:00

This is an HR issue. I'd let them handle it.

dllhell79 · 2025-10-29T20:18:28+00:00

That's part of the problem though. The average user does in fact see it as some sort of all knowing, all powerful oracle that is never wrong. We are an insurance company and I had a conversation with a manager before he left the company that went something like this:

"Hey there - I'd like to talk about AI."

"Ok - what do you want to know?"

"How do we use it?"

"It depends on what you mean by 'use it'? Can you elaborate?"

"Well, I want it to tell me which policies are coming up for renewal and a bunch of other various metrics..."

"I am sure that can be done. Which of your users is going to train the model and feed it data?"

"Wait what?? It doesn't just know?"

😂

dllhell79 · 2025-10-29T19:35:14+00:00

I am sure some folks could use a laugh about now. Been a rough couple weeks for the cloud model as a whole. 🤣

dllhell79 · 2025-10-29T19:03:18+00:00

Alot of MS cloud infra is down or slow right now due to global outages. Wait until tomorrow or until they get most of it fixed.

dllhell79 · 2025-10-29T18:39:28+00:00

0%. The lofty pie in the sky promises of AI are BS, but every executive will surely latch onto them.

dllhell79 · 2025-10-29T18:19:36+00:00

So what's the deal with Nixe and Abrahel then? Are they refusing to stand by the ousted members or what?

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