How to Suck at Information Security Some of my favorites are: * Require your users to change passwords too frequently. * Expect your users to remember passwords without writing them down. * Don’t cross-train the IT and security staff. * Expect end-users to forgo convenience in place of security. * Lock down the infrastructure so…
Like many of us here, I have been reading “Time Management for System Administrators” by Thomas Limoncelli. A lot of what is in the book is common sense, things that you look at and go, “Oh! Hey, right on!” or “Why did I not think of that in that way before?”. Then I got to…
Ever wanted to explain to someone what managing a group of System Administrators is really like? “Benjamin Feen”:http://www.monkeybagel.com does an excellent job of telling us what it is like in his article “Pumas on Hoverbikes”:http://monkeybagel.com/pumas.html bq. […] We’ve all heard the “herding cats” analogy with regard to managing programmers. Managing sysadmins is like leading a…