Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦

Microsoft Security | Check Point MVP | Risk Wrangler | Leader of an amazing team. Still addicted to getting hands-on with tech.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@merill To be fair to MS I think (hope!) they counted the four components in the sentence. Which in turn makes it even more hilarious / ironic given the name of the project.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@merill @IAMERICAbooted @guiratcom Seems your suggested fix was done, as far as security defaults go at least:-) According to the docs, since 1 July. https://t.co/YY7JKtKNSD

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@techspence Everyone has a lab...it's just that not everyone has a seperate production environment (I kid, but it does feel like that sometimes with the rapid rate of change / remediation required nowadays).

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@thefullpint @techspence In my view, it can be something as simple as proactive threat hunting, creating custom alert use cases, sharing lessons learned to lift maturity etc. It's not a high bar, but sadly some SOCs are just glorified incident reflectors with some boiler plate reporting thrown in.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@techspence Thirdly (if I may be so bold), if you're not in charge of reporting, make sure you support and influence whoever does the reporting to focus on contextual risk as opposed to pure vulnerability counts.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@FinanceGhost I've noticed people doing this in online meetings, asking AI what questions to ask.

Hilarious to hear people say, without irony, "here is why this is important" or "it's not <abc>, it's <xyz>" in real time.

110% accurate indicator of who you can tune out.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@readswithravi For me, there's two, for the spiritual and the material. Man's search for meaning and Richest man in Babylon.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@merill These sort of rebellious high-jinks are swiftly stopped by MAM. Eagerly following for more tips (for research purposes of course).

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@techspence Obligatory Office Space "PC Load Letter" reference😂

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

Bucket List item

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Italy, one of the hobbies for older men is “Umarell”.

Retired men who enjoy watching construction sites while giving unsolicited advice

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@readswithravi Appreciate the accessibility of e-readers, but nothing compares to sinking into a well worn leather couch, book in hand, the feel, the smell. It's sensory bliss.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@AndreBothmaTax Hi Officer, yes, this man right here⬆️

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@techspence

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@FinanceGhost Look the leave is one thing; it's describing that first beer that is crossing a line though😂

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@ZackKorman @akses_0x00 I don't know man, reverse Dunning-Kruger perhaps? Ever sat in a call where something so ridiculous is pitched that you start to believe that you *must* be missing the obvious, because everyone else is fawning?

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@ZackKorman @akses_0x00 I recall an analogy someone made with an old Russion joke "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us". With AI - vendors pretend their product works and we pretend to believe it.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@LFCZA Saw on the LFC subreddit that Slot got a 2-year extension. Took me a long minute to remember what day it was.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@techspence @ZackKorman @UK_Daniel_Card 2. But I think the biggest issue is their sales team were / are incredibly aggressive, to the point of bypassing tech decision makers and going straight to C's with marketing tailored to that audience. This causes resentment and hence the sentiment seen.

[Ruan Kotzé 🇳🇦 @namitguy]

@techspence @ZackKorman @UK_Daniel_Card 1. It gets oversold and subsequently people think you plop in the appliance, span your traffic and you're good. If you do spend a bit of time tuning the models you can get very high-fidelity alerting (and prevention) from it, both on-prem and M365.