I’m confused about protecting backups from ransomware. Online, people say that backups are the most critical aspect to recovering from a ransomware attack....
The backups are on a separate system with different credentials. One copy of the backups is sent to online storage that is immutable. You set a retention policy and then you can’t delete, overwrite, or change the backups.
If I create a VM role, I can assign it’s networking to a VLAN, however I can’t do the same to a file server role. Does anyone know if it’s somehow possible?
Palo Alto would do what you want. PA410 or 420 would probably do for your ships. They’re not at all rated for harsh conditions, but they’re about as robust as you’ll find for basic network gear. If you get a PA for the home office as well, you can use their SDWAN for connecting everything.
For switching…how many ports do you need on each ship? I’m using Unifi industrial switches in our manufacturing plants. They stand up to the Texas summers in a highly alkaline environment. They’re only ten ports though (8 poe).
They hired a new hotshot engineering manager (the kind that makes physical things). He hates the engineering software we run. I don’t blame him, it’s crap software. He constantly complains about how slow it its. He’s right again. Crap Software Vendor says it’s my platform that makes their software slow and buggy. I’m...
My company is about to shift a large workload to a vendor that uses an RD Gateway hosted at Amazon to serve access to the front-end application. It’s open to the internet at 443. There’s no MFA. How worried should I be?
We’re installing a new app on a secure network. The vendor has requested we allow access to gstatic.com. That seems overly broad to me and unsafe. Thoughts?
I was thinking of setting up a seedbox. Seeding will mean that the hard drive is being read from virtually non-stop. Is it fair to say that hard drives are designed for this? Or would this reduce the operational life-span of the hard drive?...
I have seen HDDs advertised as WI (write intensive), RI (read intensive), and MU (mixed use). The advertising says that the WI drives will last longer under write intensive loads. I don’t know how much truth there is to that.
When offboarding a user, the option to retain that user’s mailbox and give other people access is, convert to a shared mailbox. When you do this it doesn’t delete the user account. It still shows up as an active, unlicensed user. This can be sort of troubling as reporting of active user counts still includes those users....
Ransomware and Backups
I’m confused about protecting backups from ransomware. Online, people say that backups are the most critical aspect to recovering from a ransomware attack....
Question regarding WSFC file server role networking
If I create a VM role, I can assign it’s networking to a VLAN, however I can’t do the same to a file server role. Does anyone know if it’s somehow possible?
Exec at my company: Look at this email, does it look like a scam?
The email: Hi this is Scammy McScamface and I’d like to scam you please click the scam link below.
Need suggestion for my next router and switch vendor
Simply put, what the title says....
But we used it at my last job!
They hired a new hotshot engineering manager (the kind that makes physical things). He hates the engineering software we run. I don’t blame him, it’s crap software. He constantly complains about how slow it its. He’s right again. Crap Software Vendor says it’s my platform that makes their software slow and buggy. I’m...
Is RD Gateway hosted by Amazon secure enough? ( aws.amazon.com )
My company is about to shift a large workload to a vendor that uses an RD Gateway hosted at Amazon to serve access to the front-end application. It’s open to the internet at 443. There’s no MFA. How worried should I be?
Is gstatic.com safe to whitelist on a secure network?
We’re installing a new app on a secure network. The vendor has requested we allow access to gstatic.com. That seems overly broad to me and unsafe. Thoughts?
Does nonstop reading from a hard drive reduce its lifespan?
I was thinking of setting up a seedbox. Seeding will mean that the hard drive is being read from virtually non-stop. Is it fair to say that hard drives are designed for this? Or would this reduce the operational life-span of the hard drive?...
The system isn't working if we can't even afford healthcare. ( i.imgur.com )
Hybrid Azure AD users who have been converted to shared mailbox can't be deleted. ( learn.microsoft.com )
When offboarding a user, the option to retain that user’s mailbox and give other people access is, convert to a shared mailbox. When you do this it doesn’t delete the user account. It still shows up as an active, unlicensed user. This can be sort of troubling as reporting of active user counts still includes those users....