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by twunde 7y ago
Let's be honest, Enterprise sales companies have to get a soc2 or equivalent. Otherwise, if your customers aren't asking for it, it's easy to go without. Especially at under 1000 people. I've worked at companies with ~20
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While enterprises businesses may not use every single feature, they typically end up using 90-95%. The problem is that the same tool is l used across multiple departments. Take Epic. The EMR is used by doctors, nurses, billing, operations,
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Just a note. For 1, linux has logrotate, which is a native tool to archive and then delete log files after X days/size/whatever.
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JohnFen's answer addresses the incident response side. The other half is that you want to fix problems upstream to prevent these incidents in the first place. A general process that you should take and edit: 1. Run blameless post-morte
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Low-code/no-code tools have been around for a long time and come and go in cycles. Microsoft Access and Excel are examples of two more common tools. BI tools tend to be big targets as well including older tools like Talend ETL and newe
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by twunde 7y ago
As much as I'm grateful for the improvements made to NIST and the slow trickledown to other compliance frameworks (HITRUST, etc) there are still major compliance frameworks that require password changes and mix of upper/lower&#x2F
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I'd also add 1A) when hiring, you must consider the amount of time to train a person and that each additional person adds more work for communication. It explains why adding more people to a project that is already late, will actually
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#4 states that there's a tradeoff. If you are working on a project, and you can tell that as designed the project will be finished a month late, there are two options: 1) move the deadline or 2) Reduce quality/features. The exampl
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Remember that the book was written in the 80s, so some things have been adopted since then. One example is version control, which wasn't standard until the mid-2000s. A different example is that most other engineering disciplines requi
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What I've found helpful is to list out what you want in a culture ahead of the interview and then asking questions about culture of EVERY interviewer. In fact, it even makes sense to ask the same questions on culture of every interview
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Alienvault (now AT&T Cybersecurity) is really focused on the SIEM space and is only ok at that. While it has a lot of features, it's not very flexible. For example, neither the vulnerability scanner nor the compliance scanner can s
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by twunde 7y ago
To add further clarification, Paul Graham was one of the founders of YC and built Hacker News in a LISP dialect named Arc (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9270478 for more information).
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It's a fairly crowded space. Two of the newer monitoring stacks are Prometheus + Grafana and InfluxDB's Tick stack, both of which are metric based monitoring system and tend to be used with containers. Older open source systems in
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Students in the US can buy their way in as well, although it's rare as it totally requires board approval and a significant amount of money. I know of a high school classmate who talked to the board of a public University after his par
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Some VCs will help put founder teams together even prior to a product being built. Since you said that you had worked on a few startup projects it's worth reaching out to the investors of those projects and letting them know that you&#
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Ah, but you can sue anyone using BitTorrent the protocol and sue the creators of the protocol
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For most companies these fun events are optional, although the expectation is that while individual events aren't mandatory, everyone is expected to attend at least a few or if not there should either be a good reason. For most compani
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Not mentioned already is that pizza is ubiquitous within the US. Pretty much anywhere you go, you can order pizza from one of Dominoes/Pizza Hut/Papa John's/Little Ceasar's/local pizza shop. If you're supp
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by twunde 7y ago
1) I don't know whether NY is any more corrupt than other states, I'd imagine other states that are largely controlled by party machines have similar levels of corruption. If you look at historical political machines (Tammany Hall
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This is still worth trying (you do have to call in), but it's rarer to get a discount if you already have insurance (discounts are typically available only if you're a self-pay patient).
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For those wondering the Congressman in question is Denver Riggleman, (R) representing VA's 5th district.
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Put it into the contract/TOS, Company will not sell data, user data is owned by the user and licensed for use by Company, with the condition that Company cannot sell data to third parties. To make it even more explicit you could add a
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Caviar used to have a link where everyone could sign in and order by n time to get lunch. Seamless and stadium both have the same thing. The other alternative is to get catering and just set a weekly schedule.
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Typically companies and teams are split up by either function or by product (See https://stratechery.com/2016/apples-organizational-crossroad... for some thoughts on this). Assuming that you will have 50 engineers work
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Disposing of nuclear waste is actually a big deal in the US. Last I heard, nuclear waste is kept on-site or close by since the Yucca mountain storage facility was never built[1]. These storage facilities weren't built or meant for long
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fyi the actual status page for cloudflare is https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ But yes, down in the NY area, however one of my colleagues in Chicago is totally unaffected
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The problem may actually be compliance requirements. SOC2/HITRUST/SOX all mandate the removal of admin rights from computers, mandate an approval process w/ manager approval. Regulated industries, especially banking have more
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This was standard operating procedure for most colos/shared hosting companies even for paying customers. If the company didn't have enough resources to combat DDOS attacks, they'd shut you down to protect the rest of their cu
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The $_GET/$_POST pattern is rare in modern applications (anything built in the last 5 years) and is rightly recognized as an antipattern. Similarly many of the older obsolete functions have been either removed or fallen out of fashion.
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I've worked in the NY suburbs. Finding office space with high speed internet and enough parking can be challenging as you grow. Financing will probably be the more traditional bank loans, although it's worth checking to see if Mic

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