You need to be very careful with any security products these days. We find that the vast majority are just capitalizing on the security gold rush right now. My company gets to test alot of products and we find the vast majority to be pretty bad.
I have no experience with Better Cloud, so I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm just saying you have to be very careful with security application promises.
I'm not too familiar with it, but it looks expensive and basically does alot of the same stuff as office 365. I'd also question how good their DLP works as even Office 365 DLP has it's limitations.
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@Pete-S said in Building a Mail Server:
If you put cpanel on a server - not saying you should - but don't you get a complete mail setup with dovecot, postfix, spamassasin and the whole shebang? And then set it to relay smtp through mailgun.
Isn't that what all those website and email providers do? Or are they each running custom configs?
Yes, and no business considers that an email solution. Yes, it technically sends and receives email, but in a nearly useless fashion.
Yeah this is pretty much good enough for personal sites, but that's about it. You get mail and basic calendar and that's it. Very ugly web interfaces through cpanel mail
@darrel said in I have $500 spare!:
@IRJ said in I have $500 spare!:
Buying and flipping on eBay is your best bet with $500.
Just pick random things up on Craigslist and flip on ebay
Exactly man!
I think that's your best bet honestly. It can also be quite profitable. Yeah there's some work involved, but it's easy to lowball on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace
Buying and flipping on eBay is your best bet with $500.
Just pick random things up on Craigslist and flip on ebay
@Dashrender said in How do you handle vendor and software assments?:
@IRJ said in How do you handle vendor and software assments?:
Short o me pointing out a very bad security issue (haven't run into that yet) they'll go through with poor decisions - even if I give them better options.
You've never seen a security issue with a vendor? What kind of vendors do you have?
@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:
but at least in Canada you have edibles .
I literally spit my drink out from laughing
How do you guys handle brining in new vendors and software? Do you use questionnaires for vendor to fill out? How many questions do you ask? Who is making final call to actually bring in these vendors or software from a security prospective?
@scottalanmiller said in I thought I had a lot of gear at home but WTF?!?:
Exactly, that stuff is so silly. I get the reasons that people do it, you have to do one thing to impress the serious people, and one to impress the clueless people who aren't interested in those things. Flame decals, CPU fan lLEDs, chrome axle covers, ProxMox are all "impress the masses" moves. If you do serious stuff underneath, then I can appreciate that stuff. But the lack of substance here is the real issue.
Yeah true, but I think the chrome axle cover bothers me more than anything else haha. So... You are putting a chrome cover on a 4x4 that is generally lifted with large tires, but people are supposed to believe you go offroad. If you go offroad, what are the chances your axle gets dirty? nearly 100%, right? lol
Other issues like K & N systems are generally stem from a lack of knowledge similar to what we commonly see in IT. Are K & N systems generally good and do they help the vehicle? sure, but it is it worth the $400-600 to get a 4-8hp? People get confused by the marketing because they see the system can add up to 60HP. The thing is that you will only get that much HP in a very extreme circumstance. Every motor is different and most are obviously fairly well tuned at this stage. You are not going to be a legitmae automotive company and designed a terribly restricted air system that decrease HP and fuel economy at a tremendous level. It would hurt you big time. Where we see most of these gains is in older EFIs from 80s and 90s when these things werent tuned. Even then you would be super lucky to get 20-30HP. I have never heard of a single instance of anyone getting more than that.
We could compare this to many things in IT where the marketing doesnt necessarily lie, but it is purposely misleading and they make their money from misleading customers.