Re: [PLUG] OT: SolarWinds

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:19 PM Fred Stluka via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

+1

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On 12/16/20 12:34 PM, Keith via plug wrote:
>
> I would tend to agree that smaller companies shouldn't be cut any
> slack either and I really agree with the idea that MS, Zoom, etc are
> given way too much slack. For instance, I personally find it 100%
> unacceptable that any security company would base any sort of security
> infrastructure on Windows and yet, that is exactly the case why we
> have such an abysmal security situation generally. This is a
> different situation of course but for me, I'm more interested in
> resilience than prevention. The very first thing I tell people in any
> security conversation is that "something bad WILL happen, my job is to
> make sure you can still operate when it does.". Smaller organization
> **should** always from to be more agile and able to adapt quicker but
> too many chase the large guys. Resilience and operation durability
> is built through constant testing and red teaming. The reality is
> that that is easier to do when you are smaller but it **has** to be
> done by all. If you haven't broken your technology to understand your
> risks (and therefore how to mitigate them), you're doing it wrong and
> the bad people are going to teach you how.
>
> Funny how their lessons are initially free.
>

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