Category: IT Management
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Monitoring: The Forgotten Discipline
The Myth of “Proactive” Every company claims to be proactive. They buy dashboards, automate alerts, and call it visibility. But visibility without interpretation is just noise. And noise is the enemy of monitoring. These days, the market is full of tools that promise prediction. None deliver it. They only record symptoms faster. What You Actually…
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No Silver Bullet in Computer Security
There is no silver bullet in any aspect of information security. All the answers like EDR, MFA, SIEM… might get you in a better or worse security posture, it all depends to how you implement and manage but none of them are silver bullet in their area (malware protection, authentication, monitoring…). It is all about…
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Vendor Risk Assessment: Hassle or Blessing?!
A Security Questionnaire, RFI, VRA (Vendor Risk Assessment), VR Management…helps customers identify and evaluate the risks of using a vendor’s product or service. Performing such a review is sometimes mandatory based on the industry (e.g. healthcare). During this standard business process, customer collects written information about security capabilities of a supplier and you could barely…
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Tech Staff Justifies Incompetence!
Have you ever listened to your tech team trying to justify all the tasks left behind, delayed or procrastinated? Do you have an IT team brining excuses for every project there are facing and try to blame everything except the root cause? Then you are not alone! Here is a known list of IT staff…
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Simple Sign of Security Program Has Already Been Failed
The simple sign is your Trust and Confidence: Do you have faith in your security program? For a moment be honest and ask yourself: am I confident with my company security program? Do I have faith in our security team? Do they really know what they are doing? Does my information security officer worth pay…
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One Strategy to Win the Cyber-security Battle: Change the Focus!
Sales pitch force us to worry about things that are not so important; Change your mindset to win the battle! “Battle” would not be the right term if we didn’t have a market full of competition to sell cybersecurity products rather than focusing on the right and real way of defense. In other words, focusing…
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Tools vs. Techniques
Operations fail by focusing on tool rather than technique! In context of information technology, with all primary operations like Systems administration, Patching and updating, Backup and replication, Malware protection…and all related sub-tasks, focus on Tools is an enemy of the process! Defining, developing or choosing a technique in advance is crucial to an IT operation.…
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Good IT Exercises: Documentation!
Everybody’s talking about importance of physical exercise and routine workouts these days, and of course that’s the result of 21st century life-style which is forced through technology but how about some technology exercises and routine practices which can help reduce the pressure on tech staff workload and leads us to a healthier IT environment? Documentation…
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Naturally Secure Windows Machine
How to utilize native Windows security features to get beyond all the tools in the market?! Most of the times ‘extra tools’ are just for doing things in a different way, perhaps more convenient, but not necessary in a better way, or more effective, cheaper or faster way and Windows is not an exception. Speaking…
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Five signs IT is overwhelmed with operations
There are signs before your IT department faces a disaster or worse, jeopardize your business by affecting tech operations in different departments. Those are signs of an overwhelmed IT so let’s take a look at common signs and symptoms: 1) Lack of resourcesWhenever your IT staff are always talking about lack of resources be aware…