Monday, December 5, 2011

SpiceWorks

Ever used it?
You should check it out, www.spiceworks.com
Its free and useful if you are a comp tech on a budget. More importantly, if you can get access to an account on the AD, even a very limited one, SpiceWorks will let you see everything else on the network unobtrusively (but not silently). More important, if they are already running spice works, you can leverage that.
I am currently researching spiceworks for known security bugs, reason being that I need to be able to trust it before I consider full use of it.
I'll keep you posted if I find anything.

The Learning Curve

So you noticed another hiatus in my posts?
I got a job. A good one.
Oddly, due to the level of work required I will be learning new stuff all the time.
As such I expect my useful posts to increase, not decrease.

A guy to watch

Probably old news to the rest of the world, but this WIRED article about Chris Soghoian is a good if light read.
His new website, http://www.privacyreports.org/ (not running yet) sounds very useful and something I would really like to see.... as would every non-govt aligned security professional and IT Director in the world.