@tiagom said in For MangoLassi.it Forum Geeks: StarWind Virtual SAN NFR (not-for-resale) License!:

I need more rep

It's fine, if you want an eval license just ask them.

Asking them to stop shouting helps.

If you want to write an advert like mine....use this.

http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html

Took me...30 seconds to compose it.

If you google search how to make a techie buy your _____ brand or product or service

The article on darait.co.uk is top of the search. Somehow no one else has written about this with those keywords before. Really surprised.

Why is the choice to go physical or virtual dependant on NTGs involvement?

Surely you'd want to go virtual yourself no?

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1815633-question-for-it-consultants

Scott, I'm typing slower than you, you are not allowed to post there yet.

You gonna double the speed of my website and halve the load times? Sceptical

@Aaron-Studer said:

Also, I could host it outside the USA? Would this help?

In the case of law enforcement, if you are trying to hide from the NSA. Good flipping luck. If you host in a majority of countries, I'm pretty sure that if Uncle sam wants the data, whatever nation's own law enforcement will go after the hosting provider.

Or they'll send in Sam Fisher to where-ever the data lives.

Safest data is offline data in a safe. Paper records are impossible to hack.

@scottalanmiller said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

@Breffni-Potter said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

What further discussion is there to this?

This was at 400 posts at 5pm when I left the office, it's now 11pm and what has been achieved? Has any progress been made?

No idea, I'm not up to post 400 yet.

531 posts on a thread...most of it about a topic which is going round and round in circles

https://medium.com/dara-it

Follow for more.

A proper security bod might be able to suggest various options, but once an attacker has unlimited physical access to the server, you have had it.

@coliver

Sounds like a new "leadership gimmick" that the powers that be want everyone to experience doing something.

If your boss comes through for you, buy him a drink

https://medium.com/dara-it/amazon-s3-outage-shows-the-danger-of-doing-things-cheaply-ce335e5b7edf#.bormdw6jd

The TLDR is, Amazon like any technology tool can be extremely reliable or you can still use it with an element of risk. How much time and money you spend on the tool will make all the difference.

@handsofqwerty - We all know that even visiting a website about the topic of Encryption will add you to a watch list. I'm sure @Aaron-Studer knows this.

The day we stop asking questions for fear of the man, is the day Big Brother has taken complete power.

Which employer is this? They seem hilarious.

@Carnival-Boy said in Amazon S3 Outage shows the danger of doing things cheaply.:

I disagree with the article. One of the main reasons I would move to a cloud service is to outsource my redundancy and resilience.

But you don't buy any of that from Amazon. This is the biggest misconception about cloud computing.

What you are buying is access to resources on their platform, you can buy resources in Asia, US, Europe but it is completely up to you to design and manage these resources so they work according to your needs and are fit for purpose.

Amazon are indeed the best provider but traditional wisdom still applies, good system design, failure/recovery planning and calculating the costs of the potential risk versus the spend to prevent it.

@IRJ
But how do we prove it when everything is wrapped up in secrecy?

How do we know that a major landmark was saved by security, or 100s of people did not train due to a bombing on a train, we just don't know.

I'd make one addition to this guide.

Learn how to do purchasing, learn how to choose between product A or B, be able to identify the value difference between the products and make a recommendation based on the value differences.

In a home lab, it's your money but when you are spending someone else's money, they are going to want to know why one box will only cost them £30 and another will cost £200.

@coliver said

Potentially. AWS and S3 do offer some interesting load balancing that would be cheaper then double the price.... still not sure it would be worth the expense though.

AWS costs are a bit of mine-field so for simplicity of math lets assume equal spend if you want copies.

S3 does indeed have geo distribution for the storage but that costs more money.

Also...
http://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/2240223024/Code-Spaces-goes-dark-after-AWS-cloud-security-hack

If all of your eggs are inside a single management portal, what happens if that 1 management portal gets breached?

@Carnival-Boy said:

Correct. It works over a network to view a remote computer's IE history. If the user deletes their history, then it won't work. In that scenario, I expect I would become suspicious as to why the user was deleting their history.

Can you selectively delete IE history entries? I've not tried it but could they do that?