I recently wrote about the 2007 DST changes that are coming up very rapidly (this weekend in fact), and all the changes we’re having to go through. One of the things that keeps slipping my mind, because it works so well, is the infrastructure. I use it every day, all day, and rely [...]

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One of the corporate policies that was sent down from up high during the last audit was desktop firewalls. We originally had it set so when on the corporate network, the Windows firewall was off, when off the network, it was on. We then tweaked that, and set it to optional when off [...]

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I had to chuckle at this one. Probably everybody knows the story of the Trojan Horse, and how it was used to smuggle soldiers in. This link provided by Dark Reading’s “Firewalled” suggests that history really doesn’t teach us much.

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I am, once again, sitting on a 0200 conference call for an emergency change request to push a bug fix to production. I’m bubbling with frustration right now because once again, we spend 40 minutes unsure of:

How to test the bug If the bug was what it was Who should be testing What the successful result should [...]

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