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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. What does this mean? upgrade in your environment.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

The result was that it was straightforward, at times elementary, for malicious software to own the entire system. In the original Trustworthy Computing white paper , the four goals of the initiative were security, privacy, reliability, and business integrity. Implement compensating controls.

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