One of the security features of iOS is also why it lacks some of the features android has... in iOS everything is sandboxed from each other. No option for the user to disable this on app by app case. No shared storage as such, no option of downloading music outside of itunes, unless you play it within it's own app.

@wrx7m said in SMB firewall options:

I understand that there are many pieces to a UTM. That is why I am asking what, specifically, SAM considers the good stuff? The good stuff could mean brand, technology type or both.

Juniper, WatchGuard, Checkpoint are usually considered the top contenders in UTM market...

but be prepared say a Junpier SRX5600 base model starts at $30,000.

Some of the check point models start at $150,000.

Watchguard is on the lowerend and I think their most expensive unit is only $50,000.

@stacksofplates said in SiteKiosk:

Sorry haven't used it. I've used Webconverger before and just used the tiles in Mozilla.

That might work. I had them look at it before but they didn't find an option for Tiles. This is for open enrollment/HR stations for employees.

@DustinB3403 said in SiteKiosk:

I would recommend a solid CF solution and firewall.

If you really want to go to an extreme, you can use DeepFreeze.

This isn't what we are looking for.. We can use Drive Vaccine or whatever but, SiteKiosk provides an interface with tiles to click with the sites needed on these (along with pretty icons). It also wipes logins on idle.

Anyone use it? http://www.sitekiosk.com/web/us/products/windows-kiosk-software-sitekiosk

Does it work for you? We used it some and it locks up none stop for us. I'm wondering if there's a better alternative.

@momurda said in BSA Declairing your software license compliance:

They can come to your door with lawyers if they actually think youre 'stealing' imaginary property. But they need permission from a court to do so. And you dont have to do anything for them, at all, ever, without this order. At least in the US that is.

Actually they already have permission when you agree to the EULAs.

@dafyre said in BSA Declairing your software license compliance:

My guess is that It's a fake... Whois.net says is registered by "Third Marketing" from Antwerpen, Belgium... Sounds scammy to me.

It's legit. And Third Marketing is BSAs marketing and PR company so the manage their sites.

You can also find links to that campaign site (bsa.country) on bsa.org

http://www.bsa.org/anti-piracy/eufairplaycampaign

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

I know restaurants with flat and open networks, no firewalls, just computers running Xp and chugging along swiping cards on the swiper all day.

For their systems it really isn't a major risk.. well I mean their internal data can still be stolen but the POS systems for restaurants are made with their environments in mind so they either a) do credit cards over analog lines (not the greatest). or b) have hardware encrypted mag swipes. So even if there was malware on the POS terminal itself it could not see the actual Credit card data being read. It's encrypted all the way back to the payment processor.

Gas stations are really the ones to worry about lots of attack surface, and they run the POS retail systems not restaurant ones and don't secure their network like a normal retail place would.

@Dashrender said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@Jason said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@travisdh1 said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@Jason said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@Brains said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@IRJ said in How much notice to give an employer?:

2 weeks is what you give every time. No more, no less.

Every new employer will appreciate this and understand the two weeks notice.

As far as the employer you are leaving may beg for 3 weeks or a month. In my opinion you have no right to abide by this. By giving your two weeks you are already showing them a grace period. Employers have no problem laying people off without any grace period so never feel obligated to give any more time. Many times employers will walk IT out the door the same day anyway.

My employer requires 1 month of notice otherwise you are not paid out your Earned Time (Vacation days)

We don't get paid for earned time regardless when you leave. You use it or loose it.

If you're in the US, that is highly illegal. Nothing different that stealing your wallet.

It's actually not. They only pay for earned time that is over 120hrs.

Read more here on point 3: https://www.workplacefairness.org/final-pay#3

I didn't see anything in there about 120 hours, only a listing of states where paying accrued vacation is state law. I'm guessing you're not in one of those states?

Yes, I'm not. Scott was saying it's federal law which it's not.

120hrs isn't law just our company policy.

@travisdh1 said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@Jason said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@Brains said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@IRJ said in How much notice to give an employer?:

2 weeks is what you give every time. No more, no less.

Every new employer will appreciate this and understand the two weeks notice.

As far as the employer you are leaving may beg for 3 weeks or a month. In my opinion you have no right to abide by this. By giving your two weeks you are already showing them a grace period. Employers have no problem laying people off without any grace period so never feel obligated to give any more time. Many times employers will walk IT out the door the same day anyway.

My employer requires 1 month of notice otherwise you are not paid out your Earned Time (Vacation days)

We don't get paid for earned time regardless when you leave. You use it or loose it.

If you're in the US, that is highly illegal. Nothing different that stealing your wallet.

It's actually not. They only pay for earned time that is over 120hrs.

Read more here on point 3: https://www.workplacefairness.org/final-pay#3

@Brains said in How much notice to give an employer?:

@IRJ said in How much notice to give an employer?:

2 weeks is what you give every time. No more, no less.

Every new employer will appreciate this and understand the two weeks notice.

As far as the employer you are leaving may beg for 3 weeks or a month. In my opinion you have no right to abide by this. By giving your two weeks you are already showing them a grace period. Employers have no problem laying people off without any grace period so never feel obligated to give any more time. Many times employers will walk IT out the door the same day anyway.

My employer requires 1 month of notice otherwise you are not paid out your Earned Time (Vacation days)

We don't get paid for earned time regardless when you leave. You use it or loose it.

@Kelly said in DBAN a MacBook:

@BBigford said in DBAN a MacBook:

@Kelly said in DBAN a MacBook:

Mac's have the ability to securely wipe their drives, so you don't need DBAN assuming that OS X is a new enough version.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2906499/mac-911-how-to-erase-your-macs-hard-drive-the-right-way.html

I should have specified... I'd like to do this offline. It's on the notion that someone dropped a MacBook on my desk and said "So-and-so got fired. Wipe this."

Me: "What's the password? There's built in utilities to wipe the drive."

Manager: "Don't know. Wasn't provided one. Just wipe it."

It has been a little while since I last performed a CMD+R wipe, but I don't recall having to put in credentials.

I Don't think you do but Single user mode is easy enough to bypass the passwords

If it's an SSD DBAN is pointless

Also most modern macs and auto download the install image from the interwebz https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314

@scottalanmiller said in Thoughts on the CASP?:

@thegillion said in Thoughts on the CASP?:

I would do Linux+. I know a lot of people that have it. They make good money with it.

I have it, it's worthless. I've heard of someone caring that you have a Linux+. The info on it is really poor and sometimes wrong.

The same goes for most CompTIA exams, they are all entry level and no one cares about them.

We're having this issue with a sharepoint 2007/Knowledge lake setup that a company we bought out is running. Any ideas how to fix it? I haven't found much on the issue. It's when you try to search.

@coliver said in Am I making a bad decision?:

This is just crazy. It sounds like they are mismanaging and misapplying management principles on purpose... Sounds like they are running heavily in the red and are cutting corners at "non essential" places. Get out while you can and hope you have good references.

Actually we aren't were very liquid and cash heavy. They are just wanting to do more and more acquisitions to get more market share, and more diverse portfolio. We bought another one (which we haven't taken over IT wise yet) a few weeks ago for $146 million (all cash)

@scottalanmiller said in Am I making a bad decision?:

Fourteen IT staff in a Fortune 100? That seems crazy. I tend to work in shops that go the extreme other direction, with IT being 1:4 to 1:3 of the company. I know that that is extreme. But 7:20000 is really something. Even in the Fortune 1,000 (not 100) I tend to see more than fourteen different IT departments, let alone fourteen people. No wonder the workload feels overwhelming, it is!

Yep we used to have a lot more.. It's the new lean workforce they are doing. We don't even have desktop techicians anymore (well we have one) Sys admins are expected to fill in. They say we are trying to run say if you think you need five people to do a job, hire one and make them work harder. Something managment took up a few months ago for lean workforce. Espcially in IT cause under Lean they consider us "Non value-added labor" meaning the clients/customers don't see value added from internal IT staff directly.

I'm looking to leave my job, of course still looking for another job first. A few months ago I would have called this a dream job.. working for a fortune 100.

Unfortunately there have been several management changes. New Director of IT who doesn't want to get involved when we have issues. We've had two companies we bought out this year without adding any IT staff (we didn't keep IT from the companies we bought out). We have 14 IT staff members in total, only 6 of them Systems Administrators (me being one) We support 40,000+ users. All the new stuff with acquisitions plus our corporate servers and such are my responsibility. Along with one location with a plant. The work load has just gotten too much. I'm salary so I'm having to work all hours. I want to take vacation but can't because we have no one else to support some of the systems we got from the acquisition so I have to be available. a few weeks ago I even had to go to a remote site, left my office at 2pm drove until 10pm then worked once I got there until 3am drove back got back around 7am, took a shower and got back to my office around 8am for the normal work day..

To me it's just getting insane. But maybe that's me. All the other guys say it's not fair that I have such a high workload. The main reason I do is as they say I'm the one who can learn to do just about anything. None of the other guys of course want to learn because they've seen how it's affected me and they don't want the responsibility. These systems actually were suppose to go away after the acquisition but have not because unlike our previous IT Director our new one isn't telling them when to be off, he's asking the users when they would like to switch.. (he doesn't like conflict and would rather take the easy way IE if they want to keep using the old systems and not our standard, just let them and make me keep supporting it).

And to top it all off Managers yell at me all the time anymore because they expect things at the same speed as before even with the additional workload. Our previous IT director would have gotten their Managers, CEO etc involved and told them that isn't proper. The new one does not when I tell him about it, he's more of "Well, that's stupid" again, he doesn't like dealing with issues.

So is it stupid to leave over this seemingly small stuff?

@JaredBusch said in Centralized password manager:

@dafyre said in Centralized password manager:

@JaredBusch said in Centralized password manager:

@fuznutz04 said in Centralized password manager:

@JaredBusch What do you use?

I have been using LastPass since 2007 or so.

The standard $12 subscription lets you share a folder. So I made a
"Company" folder with subfolders for each client. and shared the Company folder out.

For a small consultancy like ours, it works well.

$12 per month, or per year?

Also... how did you handle the LastPass breach?

Per year, and I changed my password. Nothing else needed. I do not have 2FA enabled because I feel getting a text or something to the same damned device I am logging in on defeats the purpose of 2FA. My current LastPass password is a phrase about 30 characters long or so. I have lastpass set to log out automatically when my browsers close, etc.

You can use google authenticator.

Why does it need to be pushed out? for 5 computers? You said it needs to be connected to wifi based on device not user.. So just connect it manually. and if you need something to control it 802.1x is how. Pushing out wifi settings via GPO is not a method of controlling which devices have access anyway, that's just making it easier so techs don't have to help users connect.