Check out the security.....This morning I have to attend a briefing given by the computer security team, the almost 100 mile drive to the other site and the almost 100 mile drive home would some day be worthwhile. But alas probably not today, the security team AKA “Herr Flick” and “Von Smallhousen” are about to give a presentation on security, that is computer security and it’s place in the life of a systems administrator. In the old days it was quite a simple matter this computer security, but as systems evolved it became a more complex proposition especially as systems became more connected. It’s how we discovered that we needed people who were security guru’s, but seems like we got security script kiddies who can run a guru’s script or follow the instructions. Where would we be without them, well I’ll let you know after the presentation it’ll be over in a couple of hours. I’ve been a good systems admin and have done some research for the Question & “We’ll have to check that out” session at the end of the presentation.
Well I missed the morning session due to a problem, when I did eventually get there – the expression on the faces of all present told me just how much fun this was going to be. The room was hot and stuffy when I arrived, there were no seats and there was “Herr Flick” droning away in the background like a Vuvuzela it didn’t inspire any enthusiasm for the following four hours. I eventually left the site just after six and was back in my digs just before eight PM. The security team are ontop of most things security wise and they have implemented a good system of security, there were a couple of telling things that came out of the presentation – the most important being that the business would probably have to put up with a two day outage every six months for the servers to undergo mandatory patching.
Still we’ll just have to wait and see how this all pans out, the European model is the way forward I think and I’m sure that the process will be imposed eventually. It’ll just be a case of the people in the business thinking that the way that things happened in the past should be the way that they are going to happen in the future – “How upset are thay going to be I wonder”.
“computer security and it’s place in the life of a systems administrator” given by the company’s security team? Employee entertainment has obviously improved – it was never so good – I’m sooo jealous !! 🙂
“It’ll be over in a couple of hours.” Who were you trying to kid? The point of these presentations are to say what people already know but in the most long winded and round about way possible. After all they had to justify the trip from central Europe to the north of England to say it.
You tart, going with security – you were the bloke that said you could always hack the world. It only took you an hour to get all the BACS data on the contract we worked on last time and you didn’t even have root.
“computer security and it’s place in the life of a systems administrator” given by the company’s security team? Employee entertainment has obviously improved – it was never so good – I’m sooo jealous !! 🙂
“It’ll be over in a couple of hours.” Who were you trying to kid? The point of these presentations are to say what people already know but in the most long winded and round about way possible. After all they had to justify the trip from central Europe to the north of England to say it.
You tart, going with security – you were the bloke that said you could always hack the world. It only took you an hour to get all the BACS data on the contract we worked on last time and you didn’t even have root.
Sean