Talked to vendor's support group that deals exclusively with F500.
After some discussion, "It's rare we have a contact at customers on the security side who have a solid understanding of email."
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If you run your own email or have Exchange experience ur basically world-class.
Time and again, Security has to be in the drivers seat with vendors, regardless of silo.
Delegating to the Ops team with vague architectures isn't going to work. You have to be on the calls and pushing the vision of what needs to happen.
Our mail staff is shockingly good at pushing forward on stuff we ask for, but they have to have support from the organization and us.
Once I started joining the weekly meeting with mail stakeholders, suddenly they had somebody to point at about why things needed to happen.
In fact, when I first joined the company, I'll be honest, I thought some of the staff just weren't good. They had let stuff fester and degrade.
But that wasn't the case at all. They had just been kinda abandoned and without power to drive internally. It's hard to be a "utility."
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This is important correction to earlier reports Parler was hacked to get private access used to "steal" posts. Others may have created accounts in a different group, but the site was archived using their own public API.
Active Directory is one of the most interesting computing artifacts. Not a 1st-gen identity system, it has lots of lessons-learned from others, but it's still one built on a ultimately utopian vision.
Its strengths and deficits literally define the landscape of a modern network.
I cannot understate it enough; Active Directory is a product that believes in humans and expertise. It defines – exposes – innumerable interfaces that give you power, power you desire and demand, but power you arguably should not have.
It is the core, without the rubber bumper.
LDAP + DNS + Kerberos.
It is the making of a synergy unparalleled. And literally, it is the chosen. Everything else has fallen away for a reason.
But it is the overwhelming current of autonomy that arcs to chaos in a fallen world.
I went through several job interviews with great companies and people that, in retrospect at that moment in my life and the job context, it was better off I didn't get. Of course that took years to fully realize.
I was still so timid and stuff I didn't even like expense my incidental costs for the flights.
Of course I realize now that is barely the cost of a catered cheese platter for one of their executive meetings.
Also taxi cabbies spotted me and knew I was fresh shrimp and charged me a crazy amount and I just said sure because I was awestruck and inept.
Oh wow this talk by @deviantollam about door security is fast-paced and fun! Lots of pictures, lots of solutions. A model presentation. And a lot of surprises!
It's my opinion that there is basically no profession that isn't interesting if you ask the right questions. I have never talked to anybody and been bored.
One time I talked to a fast food drive-thru cashier and was just entranced by edge cases and tricks in their order interface.
Never ask how they do it. Ask how they respond when things outside control go wrong. That's the actual engineering + clever bits. And they feel valuable.