NetworkRalf

30 year networking veteran. started as a software engineer working on routing protocols, now on the production side focusing on automation

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@portcullislabs @TalosSecurity @duosec Empire is a good word….

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@jonathandavidsn @RajnChop @_TomGillis @Cisco Yeah, people do that with Google Slides pretty much all the time, same with Office 365. What am I missing?

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@wandynamics @bitsinflight We’re considering this as a viable alternative. Consistent OS across our Datacentres, metro, buildings, and branches would be invaluable.

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@danieldibswe That’s how we build our data center switch configurations - no CLI touch at all for any operations now. We will be doing the same in our branches starting this year, early next. All variables come from systems of record.

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@danieldibswe We used to call those the Silvano Gai Tags internally when he was proposing them in the early 2000s

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@dscheinm Or creatively rewrite history to suit their narrative: “the company never sold anything til I was here” “I launched the company in 20XX” or changes the name of the company or something to allow for that story to take root.

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@danieldibswe @ioshints It fails at simple math, stop the hype machine.

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@etherealmind My favorite is a friend works at a company that did a press release that they went ‘all in on cloud’ and moved ‘everything to the cloud’

The put all their servers in a hosted DC. Smh

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@Kangaruess What an abomination. I remember when the CatOS team was explaining this in the mid 90s and we were incredulous. Was literally a ticking time bomb.

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@Bahlkris We had several like that as well. GIS then started making us upgrade software because of known vulnerabilities. We were upgrading Cisco kit every other weekend…. Could never get compliant

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@rugsharkd @sama But you can mandate that all banks not compliant with Dodd Frank post it on the front page of their website, and at each branch. Then hold the execs responsible.

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@danieldibswe We use @AristaNetworks in our low latency trade plant. Most exchanges and everyone else in there seems to as well. There are good reasons.

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@danieldibswe We banned stacks - much easier and obvious failure characteristics. Fibre plant was a sunk cost but we pulled 48pair from each IDF to each of the MDFs

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@rugsharkd @sama Done right the bank pays for insurance. If the FDIC does a bailout for this type of circumstance the Officers of the bank should be liquidated, bonuses clawed back from execs, and the directors and officers criminally charged.

The bonus and equity clawback pays off the FDIC.

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@westoque @sama Claw them all back.

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@sama Sam, there used to be intense audits. SVB lobbied to have that threshold raised so they were effectively@less regulated.

Protect the depositors, 100% yes.

Fire the employees, jail the officers, and claw back 75% of all bonus and equity comp from all VP and up.

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@GRDecter Really depends if they have a 10b51 or not. Most execs have predetermined selling plans on vesting or at specific price targets.

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@John_Capobianco Can you do it with Zoom? We’ve been migrating off of WebEx.

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@grapegrower1986 @RepSwalwell Dodd Frank was a set of regulatory controls out in place because of the crash of the banks and housing market in 2008.

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@John_Capobianco What’s the error rate? I can’t get reliable results out of ChatGPT, it lies with absolute authority. Can’t have that on a critical network.