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  1. Rick Butler

    Microsoft Teams - the Latest Victim

    Money makes the world go round. /r
  2. Rick Butler

    The name has been changed on the CASP+ Certificate

    Interesting...I get to change my Resume...cards, signatures...so many changes....
  3. Rick Butler

    The Consequences of Being Stubborn

    That is the very wonderful thing about an idea. But sometimes, many great ideas die on the vine because there simply are not enough people out there who are willing to support them. Many times, an idea has to find its way. At the right place, at the right time, and with the right folks. And...
  4. Rick Butler

    Encrypting Hard Drives

    Before you celebrate, note that Windows 11 24H2 is turning on BitLocker by default. Now, you might want to be careful with that because if you happen to lose your key, and you're not in a managed environment, an encrypted hard drive means you've just lost all of your data, unless you're...
  5. Rick Butler

    Phishing - The Top Attack Vector

    Perhaps - if you want to enroll your home PC to the your college's Entra....not sure if your school, though, is using Defender... MSFT Defender has matured greatly as a anti-badware platform. Even if you're just using Defender that comes stock with Windows, it's better, I would say, than...
  6. Rick Butler

    MFA - Something Else to Consider

    Microsoft has been really hard on passwords and SMS for MFA. And rightfully so, since it doesn't take much to bypass these things. What gets me is that people still can't figure out how to make Microsoft Authenticator work. I have to reset this so often in our Entra tenant for students.
  7. Rick Butler

    MITRE ATT&CK Framework

    I believe ATT&CK is also on CASP+/SecurityX.
  8. Rick Butler

    Phishing - The Top Attack Vector

    Yes. Defender P2 is licensed per staff user. Since we're an EDU, students are also covered, like they are under A3 licensing. A good solution for a college.
  9. Rick Butler

    Web Browser

    I use Edge for my primary school management, while I have profiles for Chrome for secondary work, as well as personal or other activities. I really try not to cross pollinate work, home, and such. As for not having a cell phone, I know that's not accurate - since the CIN motley crew over...
  10. Rick Butler

    Phishing - The Top Attack Vector

    Defender P2 is a great platform for total malware management. Only thing above that is XDR which adds in the SIEM and SOAR. Too much for our school, but good for bigger environments.
  11. Rick Butler

    Web Browser

    I use a combination of Edge and Chrome. But if you need something with the old JRE built in, Pale Moon is a good alternative. For mobile, I'm pretty much exclusively using Brave for its anti spyware capabilities, along side of SurfShark VPN.
  12. Rick Butler

    Phishing - The Top Attack Vector

    I think we see a good phishing email that gets spread through our organization, perhaps every few weeks. Lately, I think, with a few exceptions, our students and staff are getting better at identifying and flagging them in Exchange, while I end up going into the MS Defender console and...
  13. Rick Butler

    The Consequences of Being Stubborn

    Thanks for that. I do try to be interesting when I write something- if not entertaining.
  14. Rick Butler

    Password Manager

    I don't know that CompTIA would provide any specific platform managers, given their vendor-neutral perspective. I myself have used 1Password in the past, but stopped using it since it's a non-US company that manages it - and I tend to restrict my security tools to things developed and managed...
  15. Rick Butler

    The Consequences of Being Stubborn

    Use them as you will. Actually, I like to think of myself as a prolific writer. I've written both poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, serious and silly over the course of my life. I also wrote for MCP Magazine/Redmond/1101 Communications from 2000-2007, writing commentary, product...
  16. Rick Butler

    The Consequences of Being Stubborn

    Wow. Okay, y'all....so.... I had an old First Sergeant back in my Army days offer this very sage wisdom: "Don't speculate or make assumptions about the things of which you are unaware. " But because @Trevor Chandler had to step up and take an unprovoked shot across the bow, I would feel...
  17. Rick Butler

    CIN Sneak Peek - CloudNetX CNX-001

    While Zero Trust does carry an attitude of cynicism in that "assume breach" is a key component, I feel I must apply the same methodology that you do in handing out tardy slips during seminars.
  18. Rick Butler

    CIN Sneak Peek - CloudNetX CNX-001

    Likely story...
  19. Rick Butler

    Word of the Day: Skullduggery (Wi-Fi Leapfroggery)

    Well, with respect to the Coffee Maker:
  20. Rick Butler

    CIN Work Zone Ahead!! 🚧👷

    Suddenly, this comes to bear:
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