Posts made by Bud

@art_of_shred
No worries. Everyone is entitled their own opinions. Operation: Mindcrime was the last good thing I heard from them and I hated the song Silent Lucidity.

Currently, in house, we are using Lotus Notes. I'm looking at different options now just for us. Spiceworks is frowned upon due to the ad based version being the only one that any of them have seen. I previously (circa 2003) used BMC Remedy (which he also run in-house for another department's ticketing system) which wasn't great then and now, well, it causes quite a bit of the headaches in this department.

Here's a decent comparison chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software

Depending on which A/V solution you are using, you might want to go with that. Our philosophy here is to not put all our eggs in the same basket, so we use McAfee for encryption and Symantec for A/V. YMMV.

@Hubtech said:

Laptops will not boot. I assume the file system corrupts. That's why I was recuva Ing this weekend. Central management would be nice.

McAfee, Symantec, Sophos, all have centrally managed solutions. I'm sure that Kapersky and others do as well.

If the laptops post, but the login screen does not launch, it sounds as if the partition that has Bitlocker may be corrupted. It could also be something within the file that got screwed up.
CAVEAT - I've never used Bitlocker, so I'm just trying to make some assumptions based on other things I've used. Is it integrated with AD? If so, did users reset their passwords while off the network and does that affect Bitlocker? What mode does Bitlocker run (my understanding is that there are various modes)?

My first question to people asking about an encryption solution is: Do you need a centrally managed solution or are you good with a version that is managed on a machine-by-machine basis?

Here, we use a centrally managed solution. We use McAfee Endpoint Encryption. Yes, it is a McAfee product. It's pretty straightforward. The only issue we've had with it is we changed one group to a single sign-on after we deployed and it wound up corrupting the token. Big deal? Nope. Still works. Just have to perform a recovery operation with them on the phone that takes about 15 minutes.

Plus, when the person is no longer employed by us and we receive their laptop, we can decrypt the laptop and back up everything we need to for long term storage.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller Ok, well it's a disk drive just not platters.

Yes, but the physical nature of spinning disks was the issue. SSDs don't burn, not easily. You're point above was that because platters were used in airplanes that you assumed black boxes were going through forensic recovery and that that was a reliable process. But flight recorders do not use spinning rust as it is too fragile (and slow for their needs.)

Those FDRs and CVRs have to be able to withstand a lot of shock and still retain the data. Prior to using the same tech that is available in SSDs, tape was used for a long time. Basically 8-track looking things. The more moving parts, the more potential for some kind of failure.

Thanks! I was just thinking about this the other day and I need to pass this information on to a coworker or two...

@FiyaFly said:

@RAM. I was wondering if we'd see you here!

Ditto.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Bud said:

I have a few machines at work running XP

I just got a new XP laptop last week facepalm

New? Or just New to you?

@Joyfano Sorry Joy, I do need to crash. I hope the rest of your day and your night go well.

First, many people perceive documentation as something they write and shove in a pile. This isn't true, especially in regards to IT. Stuff changes and with it the documentation must be kept up to date. Yes, you have to invest the initial time, but once you do, revising the documentation in the future is a fairly easy process that should be done on a regular basis.

Documentation should always cover absolute worst case scenario. As in should the entire department be unavailable or turned to zombies or whatever and new people have to come in from the ground up.

And if you think there is a such thing as too much documentation, try complying with documentation for ISO... that can be a headache...

But @networknerd stated, the best way is to start with a template. Then outline what all you want to cover. It gets easier the more you do it.

@Joyfano Nevermind, I must be the one getting tired... I completely missed that... guess I should go crash for the evening...

I have a few machines at work running XP

It means 4:30 PM Zulu time (GMT).

What don't you get?

And we all know that A.J needs his beauty sleep or else he'll be cranky in the morning.

@scottalanmiller said:

@bytesnake said:

23:04

I don't think many Americans know what that means!

I think more Americans are familiar with the usage without the colon.

@art_of_shred said:

Hmmm, popular Tesla songs? Love Song, their cover of "Signs", Modern Day Cowboy, Edison's Medicine, Heaven's Trail, ...

Pretty much nailed it with these...

@ajstringham YouTube my friend... Just YouTube those five songs...

@art_of_shred said:

@Bud said:

Lately at work, I've been putting on Pandora. Currently the band (and associated type of music) that I've been listening to is Tesla. Which has had a lot of Guns N' Roses, some Foreigner, Whitesnake, etc.

I have been doing exactly that for a year or so now. When I enter Tesla as the "station", it gives you such a great selection! Not to mention that Tesla is about the most under-rated band of the 80/90's.

Tesla and Queensryche... two of the most underrated, underappreciated bands from that era...

@ajstringham Can't wait to hear the results of that one...

Hopefully it won't be anything like the the 'results' of this one: http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/man-found-decapitated-police-suspect-suicide/nYNZh/