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  1. Rick Butler

    Zero Trust: Is it Really Achievable?

    I don't think an organization can fully and completely implement Zero Trust, particularly in a heterogenous environment. I think it's a goal for which organizations aspire, but never a truly attainable goal, IMAO. /r
  2. Rick Butler

    Making Subnetting Fun and Easy

    I can't leave off this particular subject without, really mentioning the Magic Number method, which comes from the CCNA instruction materials. I know the purists like the idea of teaching binary, followed by nifty techniques like "binary bucks", "pipes and bubbles" or the like that rely on...
  3. Rick Butler

    Creating a Positive Learning Environment in IT Classes

    I have my own ideas: This is the Anti-Gaming Ban Hammer - a necessary artifact of my days in the classroom in 2015 - to remind students that gaming in class was not conducive to learning.
  4. Rick Butler

    Improving Retention of Key IT Concepts

    It's been often postulated that without repetition, the ephemeral nature of learning is very hard to overcome. For example, @Trevor Chandler can give an amazing lecture on any topic and within 24 hours, students will remember just 33%.
  5. Rick Butler

    Compromised Account

    This is another reason why I like Defender 365 - because it will send out Users at Risk notifications. Defender also allows you to review audits of user accounts for unusual activity. Upgrading to Defender XDR will add SIEM and SOAR capability to the Defender console. /r
  6. Rick Butler

    Another Task Manager Mystery

    Everything relative, methinks. Microsoft bringing this in ten years ago...perhaps it's "ancient history" to some, recent to others. And I don't think it will go away - MSFT will likely rehash and rebrand it into something else in hopes it will stick, IMAO.
  7. Rick Butler

    Anonymizer

    I'll never tell.
  8. Rick Butler

    Recommended time to teach Network+

    I'm not sure we can restrain someone from signing up for a class, but getting certs, certainly, from a certification purity perspective. HOWEVER The opposite on this is the lost revenue by candidates as a result of failures from test taking. My guess is that if it's going to a for-profit...
  9. Rick Butler

    Web Browser Launch - starts multiple instances

    Surely. I was a bit alarmed when I first saw that as well, and when I had an abhorrent browser which had a process that I needed to kill. Finding which one, without killing my other browsers was a challenge. Plus, as I think about it, common elements can open in a containerized process, so...
  10. Rick Butler

    Certification Strategies

    @Brian Ford said it well, albeit far more nicely than I would have. I'm actually a bit more sharp when it comes to rookies getting higher certs for a couple reasons. First, rookies tend to make the quintessential mistake in chasing the money. They have this belief that if they can get the big...
  11. Rick Butler

    Anonymizer

    Someone is revisiting whether he wants to get out on the Dark Web...
  12. Rick Butler

    Recommended time to teach Network+

    The one thing I would also add to this, as well as any other CompTIA (or certification course for that matter) is to remove, from jumpstreet, the expectation that a candidate is going to be "cert-ready" at the conclusion of the training. The human mind requires multiple exposures to the same...
  13. Rick Butler

    Another Task Manager Mystery

    UWP is relatively a new platform. Think of it as some kind of abstraction between Windows components and platforms on which they might run. This reminds me of the old Hardware Abstraction Layer that was part of Windows NT - which allowed NT to run on PowerPC, DEC Alpha, and Intel processors by...
  14. Rick Butler

    Zero Touch Provisioning

    Good to know...because I would hate to think that a man of your certification stature would reject proper security theory.
  15. Rick Butler

    Zero Touch Provisioning

    I'm beginning to think you don't like Zero Trust, Mr. Chandler.
  16. Rick Butler

    Web Browser Launch - starts multiple instances

    Microsoft Edge is considered to be a multi-threaded, modern browser, so it's going to split up processes for better performance. You'll see the same thing with Chrome, since Edge is based on the Chromium engine. If it were only one process, you'd only be able to run it on one processor core...
  17. Rick Butler

    Another Task Manager Mystery

    Well, Search is the good old Windows Search function. It's part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) which contains apps that run on just about anything, from PC's to Xboxes and mobile devices. When a process is 'suspended' in Windows, it simply means it's saving power until needed - for...
  18. Rick Butler

    Open to work as an CompTIA Instructor.

    It may be, simply, a general statement.
  19. Rick Butler

    Happy Holidays!! What Are Your Traditions?

    Well, listen to the song and see.
  20. Rick Butler

    Open to work as an CompTIA Instructor.

    Looks aren't everything, Mr. Chandler.
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