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  1. Rick Butler

    Cybersecurity Frameworks: NIST vs. CIS

    Both, actually.
  2. Rick Butler

    Connecting Technical Skills with Business Needs

    Most IT professionals do not have the Business level experience nor the decision-making authority to deal with these kinds of questions. This is usually the domain of an IT Manager or a CIO. Something to consider is the level of communication that IT professionals have with business leads. Many...
  3. Rick Butler

    Zero Trust: Is it Really Achievable?

    As I mentioned in a previous post, it should really come down to whatever the organization has done through a risk assessment. It doesn't make sense to actually implement any kind of a security solution of any kind, until that occurs.
  4. Rick Butler

    Compromised Account

    Windows 10 does ship with Windows Defender, but Defender 365 is Cloud based software. Now, if you have the licensing for Defender 365 (P1 or P2), windows 10 will adapt and connect to it if the machine connects to Azure through MDM/Intune. Defender XDR does have its own licensing. and it is not...
  5. Rick Butler

    Email Clients

    Really, the decision of what client a. person might use to manage email is going. to be, at the end of the day, A matter of personal preference, availability of software, and platform on which that's running. Right now, in the Microsoft World, you have the choice between the new outlook, which...
  6. Rick Butler

    Making Subnetting Fun and Easy

    It sounds like I might have to do a little train the trainer on these two techniques. I actually am quite serious; they are valid teaching strategies in helping students understand the concept of subnetting. Well, I have. to say that would be your loss. If it's good enough for Cisco, it's good...
  7. Rick Butler

    Making Subnetting Fun and Easy

    If I'm going to mention you, you don't have to worry. I do know where the @ is.
  8. Rick Butler

    Creating a Positive Learning Environment in IT Classes

    Now, in all actuality, I have seen groups that have utilized gaming in order to build a sense of esprit de corps. and camaraderie. They knew that when I told them to get back to work, despite my comedic way of doing so, they knew that I actually meant business.
  9. Rick Butler

    Creating a Positive Learning Environment in IT Classes

    Oh, I don't know, Trevor - I think more instructors may agree with me. I also have a mace and a CAT5 of Nine Tails, also suitable for...getting the point across in a very visible way. /r
  10. Rick Butler

    Cybersecurity Frameworks: NIST vs. CIS

    Frameworks many times get rolled over and misused. Specifically, an organization will look and choose a framework based on its compliance requirements. So they will attempt to adopt a framework and push themselves to aligning with it, so if the compliance question is asked, they can say, "Oh...
  11. 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
  12. 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...
  13. 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.
  14. 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%.
  15. 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
  16. 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.
  17. Rick Butler

    Anonymizer

    I'll never tell.
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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...
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