You know the number one excuse given for not having stronger security measures?
“Who would want to hack us?”
This is used to justify not having 2FA for everyday logons, not having a better firewall service, not having better internal security controls – everything, really. And it’s so naive and wrong.
Mark Minasi’s most recent e-mail newsletter, it seems, will be his last. He’s announced his end-of-2017 retirement from his most active tech pursuits, including his world-famous public seminars and private classes. For me, it’s definitely the end of an era.
Eh, let’s wait for Service Pack 1.
Right? Standard wisdom, with changes in terminology, across the commercial software industry since pretty much forever. Good times.
Those times are gone.
DevOps/DSC Camp isn’t a conference – it’s a “working group” of enthusiastic professionals who share their experiences, practices, challenges, and triumphs. Only 20 people are admitted and we have a high alumni rate – and alumni are asked to prepare a presentation. No, we don’t record or stream – you need to be here live! Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdsc-camp-2017-tickets-31137067808.
We’ve a whole range of topics in our proposal document right now. Here’s a few folks are still working on:
There’s kind of a rash going around, with people creating and deploying self-signed certificates in all manner of situations.
Stop it. Here’s why.
DevOps/DSC Camp isn’t a conference – it’s a “working group” of enthusiastic professionals who share their experiences, practices, challenges, and triumphs. Only 20 people are admitted and we have a high alumni rate – and alumni are asked to prepare a presentation. No, we don’t record or stream – you need to be here live! Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdsc-camp-2017-tickets-31137067808. Here’s one alumni session currently proposed:
Bryce McDonald
This will begin with a brief talk about the concepts of machine learning, what it is, what it’s used for, and common methods for doing machine learning today. I’ll also talk a little bit on the pros and cons of using Azure’s machine learning resources.
Next, we’ll discuss the code behind machine learning and how it works (this may or may not involve a short lesson on matrix multiplication as well) and discuss “next steps” for the code of my PowerShell machine learning module.
Don’s note: One of the cool things about Camp is the kinda random directions we’ll run in. Bryce’s proposal here might not look like DevOps or DSC, but it’s an important area of technology. It’s fine for us to focus on topics that help round out our careers – and indeed, “career” is the main point of Camp in the first place.
Issue has become one of those annoying “soft” words that’s intended to take the sting – and all legitimate meaning – out of a conversation. It sounds mean to say, “we have a problem,” and so instead we say, “we have an issue.” But the word has a meaning already, and by misusing it, you’re neutering your conversations.
DevOps/DSC Camp isn’t a conference – it’s a “working group” of enthusiastic professionals who share their experiences, practices, challenges, and triumphs. Only 20 people are admitted and we have a high alumni rate – and alumni are asked to prepare a presentation. No, we don’t record or stream – you need to be here live! Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdsc-camp-2017-tickets-31137067808. Here’s one alumni session currently proposed:
Missy Januszko
One of the biggest struggles I had when learning DSC was getting encrypted credentials to work. My initial testing environment had a Windows 2008 R2 PKI and setting up the template for document encryption – and at the time, with limited documentation – wasn’t easy. Once I had the template functional, I thought it would be “fun” to automate some PKI builds, including single-tier and two-tier PKI builds using DSC, including a DSC template that could automatically deploy a document encryption certificate to nodes. I will review the steps and code for a single-tier PKI (which currently works in autolab) and the changes and struggles when switching it to a two-tier PKI. Maybe I’ll even have it all working by then. 🙂
Don’s note: This is another thing I love about Camp. Missy’s pretty much the Diva of PKI in my mind, but it’s been an uphill battle to get all these bits working. At a conference, she’d probably never present this in a semi-finished form, but at Camp she absolutely can. We’re far more interested, as a group, in seeing how it’s put together and maybe offering a suggestion or two than we are in simply being lectured at.
With one of our current national debates being healthcare, let’s take a moment to examine some of the “spin” and put to rest some of the more egregious myths.
With most public cloud providers, you get two broad categories of service to choose from: Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Or, broadly and more simply, “do you want a website” or “do you want a VM?” I’d argue that many people have a gut instinct to opt for IaaS, and that they’re often wrong for doing so.
