It's not quite fully baked, I reckon book 2 will nail it on the "I want one" factor.

Try to uninstall Pertino briefly and test it again, I've had it do some slightly special things on my system.

Can you set up Outlook on a different system? Is it just her PC or is it her 365 autodiscover just for her account?

You using DirSync or anything fun?

I think it was a ghost.

@Dashrender said:

when we go to another company could we get another for that company?

What if we want to use it ourselves not for our company?

Create your own company

@scottalanmiller said:

No, that's not what studies in business have shown after decades of research. Quite the opposite. Once you hit your level of competence, going beyond that results in failure and frustration.

But what I'm trying to say is if you could have someone who was at say...level 8 for competence out of 10, or level 5 out of 10 but they'll stay for quite a few years because they have reached their limit, will 5 outperform 8 in a single year?

http://mangolassi.it/topic/6514/what-is-your-educational-goal/31

Does the fact you had 40 jobs in 7 years make you a worse candidate than someone at the same job for 3-5 years? Albeit a consultant job there is definite benefits to someone pushing rather than someone who is stagnant/stuck.

@scottalanmiller said:

I think it is an unhealthy thing in IT that we feel that everyone should be "passing through" rather than finding where they are good and what makes them happy.

But once your skills/knowledge out grows the environment you are in and it is impossible for you to get that extra needed challenge which you crave, surely that pushes you to move on then?

Oh wait, gray padlock means SSL but without Extended Validation. Firefox is the only browser to do this by the looks of it, everyone else has a green padlock.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-tell-if-my-connection-is-secure

Is your FireFox misbehaving?

@Dashrender said:

I was thinking the same thing. Also, when hiring minimum wage or barely over ($22-25K/yr) you can't expect to get the best people, and those that you do get will probably leave you looking for better pay, etc.

But that is surely the right candidate, you want some ambition and a desire to improve and if you can't offer it inside your structure, whilst they are in your organisation would they not be far better than an "Average effort" but will stay for 5 years?

The padlock HTTPS bit is always green regardless of cert level.

You are thinking of the green bar which is called Extended Validation.

@DustinB3403 said:

@Breffni-Potter We're using the example I have in my day to day. Volume pricing might apply. We can dig into your pricing provider in a bit and see the nitty-gritty.

But your pricing is 2000% percent higher on training than what anyone is currently doing to resource user training. So it skews the math horribly on one side of the scale.

$400 per year for 20 users as a rough ball park.

Actually the cost is much much lower than $50 per person.

Someone from their team literally just called me asking if I was interested and the pricing was incredibly cheap compared with the numbers we are talking about.

Yes but your classroom training would be the wrong expense because of the lack of memory retention.

So then you have the KnowBe4 model which offers a price per user per year.

I think it was around $50 per user per year. You get regular phishing tests, video classroom style of the courses all year round.

So your $75 per participant for a one off session just cannot compete price wise.

It's really expensive to hire a bad person for your organisation. Even more expensive to attempt to train them.

Just don't let them in the door to begin with.

Neither are the right answer but both are helpful.

The right answer is hiring people who are motivated to learn the right way of doing things, who want to improve at their work, who want to use the most efficient tools for the task at hand.

You have 2 types of hire, those who don't want to grow and those who do want to grow.

No amount of training will help those who just don't want to grow. They will always click on the spam emails, click on the malware links and ignore you.

When faced with management pressure they will either grow to change their behaviour or dig their heels in.

@DustinB3403 said:

@Jason said:

You need good user training in addition to AV and network firewalls. User training is the most important.

User training..... hahaha....

So as with anything lets perform a math exercise and calculate the continuing cost of effectively training users, versus the cost of build a good security policy with backup and recovery functionality (not excluding cost to upgrade it and maintain it)

Don't forget to add the cost of a breach.

Reputation
Fines

RX is standard blue
RZ is eco green.

Just look at the model numbers.

Umm.

For those of you who have used StarWind.

Why would you use it? Is this that good an offer?

Can I achieve the same setup by using the native tools of Xen, Hyper-V or VMWare?