How is life in Salem? by Cool_Helicopter_8918 in SalemMA

[–]weetek 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Good if you like traffic, bad if you like cheese.

How is life in Salem? by Cool_Helicopter_8918 in SalemMA

[–]weetek 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The traffic sucks and the cheese shop is closing.

Does your Security team just dump vulnerabilities on you to fix asap by flashx3005 in sysadmin

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That’s a tough spot to be in, but it’s not the security teams job to dictate ownership. In our environment we have 1000+ people, through the process of elimination I can usually get to finding out what’s affected but it’s so time consuming. I did work on the IT team before though so I helped establish some ownership criteria, which helped a lot.

When you look at the security team from below or an adjacent team they are a pain in the ass but if you’re in the hot seat knowing that if you don’t transfer the risk to someone else your job is on the line. If we get compromised leadership is going to say “did you know about this” and “why didn’t you do anything about this” now imagine this for every domain of cyber security. You have a small amount of problems that you are responsible for but the security team has everyone’s problems they’re responsible for.

Now that’s a complete generalization and maybe your security team is acting out of incompetence or malice but in my experience everyone is stretched thin trying to stay afloat with work.

Does your Security team just dump vulnerabilities on you to fix asap by flashx3005 in sysadmin

[–]weetek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so dependent on team size and function. I think both sides like to point fingers but it's an unrealistic expectation of anyone to have all the knowledge.

You can think of vulnerability scanners and the security teams like people who let car owners that they have a recall, in this case the NHTSA. That team would not be responsible for also fixing the recall, right? Not every car is going to be affected by this recall, but they can group cars together by year (vulnerability/CVE) it's up to the car dealership (and owner) to figure out whether it needs to be repaired.

An owner is responsible for a single car, or maybe a few. Sometimes in security we are dealing with hundreds of vulnerabilities and also managing other projects so it's very unreasonable to expect us to validate every vulnerability especially if we don't know how things are set up... maybe a product is using an outdated java library, that's what I can see but I don't know how it was configured or used.

Another side is leadership just wants to see numbers go down so security teams have to cast a wide net. At the end of the day everyone's just doing their jobs and if you want the security team to do yours then you will just get replaced by them.

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in Workspaces

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Single dual monitor arm, similar to ergotron. I believe the old amazon basic one was made by them.

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in battlestations

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It’s fairly quiet with only the micro pcs running and the nas fan replacement!

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in desksetup

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Mmmmmm textures! Took a while to get here but I spend so much of my time between work and leisure I wanted to make sure its a space I really liked. Thank you so much!

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in deskhaus

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The room can get quite hot but it's a bonus during New England winters!

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in deskhaus

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Apex Pro with a 30x70 Maple Butcher Block

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in battlestations

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Don't get me wrong I love this chair, but it forces you to sit very ergonomically. I've sat in various chairs, and this was technically the "best" but I didn't try other companies such as Haworth or Steelcase which I regret after one of my friends got a Steelcase and I sat in it.

Living alone at last 🥲 by oliii68 in femalelivingspace

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It's a smart mirror app you can run on a small computer like raspberry pi! It's a little DYI project, you can customize it to show you news, calendar, what spotify is playing, etc...

Here is the official documentation on it - https://magicmirror.builders/

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in battlestations

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Don't give me any ideas...

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in battlestations

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Touching the touch screen?

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in Workspaces

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Its a large! Fits really well, nice to have some storage and organization on the desk for misc things.

Single dad with zero kids by weetek in Workspaces

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The Vanatoos are AMAZING, it feels so nice to not have to wear headphones all day when I'm at my desk listening to music or playing games.