Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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@scottalanmiller Being fakeraid1 I wonder if he can even take one of the drives and access the data just to get his data back.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller Being fakeraid1 I wonder if he can even take one of the drives and access the data just to get his data back.
Probably with the right tools.
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Why isn't it virtual? Because it is physical. Um... really? I think someone is in over their heads, and this is a consultant?
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People keep upvoting a post I made on spiceworks from 2013... no idea why.
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@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
People keep upvoting a post I made on spiceworks from 2013... no idea why.
Which one?
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
People keep upvoting a post I made on spiceworks from 2013... no idea why.
Which one?
It's not very often but every month or so someone adds a spice to it. Looking at it now there is only 8 spice ups... but I know there were more in the past.
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Maybe someone has been removing them?
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That guys seems to be receptive, at least. But I agree, he's in over his head and not really understanding how he is currently making decisions.
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He just keeps repeating his circular logic. They are physical because they aren't virtual. They aren't virtual because they are physical. But he won't say why. I'm pretty sure he doesn't really know these terms and doesn't know what to do.
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I see that. You've asked if his hands are tied, but he's not committing to that.
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@coliver 9 now
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Now its 11.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@NerdyDad said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Now its 11.
What is?
@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
People keep upvoting a post I made on spiceworks from 2013... no idea why.
@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
People keep upvoting a post I made on spiceworks from 2013... no idea why.
Which one?
It's not very often but every month or so someone adds a spice to it. Looking at it now there is only 8 spice ups... but I know there were more in the past.
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@NerdyDad You guys aren't really helping...
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@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@NerdyDad You guys aren't really helping...
You're welcome
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@coliver said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@NerdyDad You guys aren't really helping...
Just trying to show the love.
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Found a bank that is in SUCH bad shape. They are freezing and modding posts there so going to post the disaster here for the record. First, this is my final post that is in moderation. basically, someone is stealing from this bank, probably just by not doing their job and selling the company out to resellers... but it is BAD....
"This is an industry standard problem in the SMB space and you'll see it all over this community, too. People who hide behind IT titles but don't actually do any IT work or act as the IT person / role but instead of "IT buyers" and just "buy IT" from vendors. But since they don't act in an IT role, they don't play the part of protecting their companies from predatory sales people and since "sales is free" and "expertise is expensive" to avoid budget concerns they go to sales people and get the "IT for free" and instead just get sold products that they claim that they need.It's a really effective way to get paid as an IT pro, but do, quite literally, nothing. No need for any skills at all, no need to keep up, no need to even work. Sales people are always happy to do this "work" for free - but of course the only thing that they do is sell you things that you don't need because that's their actual job that they are paid to do. One hour of IT consulting would have protected your institution from all of these issues, that's all it takes. But lacking ALL IT oversight, someone just let a sales organization into the company to "rape and pillage" at will.Think of IT like the castle guards. They are paid to protect the business. But in a case like this, it looks like the senior guard either decided doing his job was too much effort or got slipped some gold in a bag and literally opened the gates to let the known attackers in to have at the undefended castle. But the guards keep reporting to the king that all is well and the people stealing are not to be worried about.Does that make sense? At some point, someone is making money and the IT protection isn't happening. These are literally the textbook examples of how this happens. If you look at SW, there are literally thousands (I really mean that) threads about how this exact scenario should never happen, and how VARs and vendors will take advantage of it, and how Dell does this specifically, etc. It could not fit the predicted scenario more. And the articles I linked, they are years old but fit your scenario exactly. There is a reason for that. This is the pattern that we look for for these kinds of problems. "
