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Author: Michael Kavka

Noise, Noise oh the Noise

Posted on June 21, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Noise, Noise oh the Noise

So many security controls. So much noise. It is a wonder we find anything at all relevant. The amount of time spent going through log after log is amazing. Even with SIEMs, dashboards, machine learning and “AI” there is still a ton of logs to go through. Yes we can whittle away once we know…

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Cyclical

Posted on June 15, 2018June 28, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Cyclical

There was a new Intel flaw announced this week dealing with Floating Point Calculations and Math processing. You would think it would take longer than 24 years for Intel to have another Floating Point issue. Now, I am not saying it is the same type of flaw, but the general public won’t understand that, at…

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Lack of Control?

Posted on June 7, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Lack of Control?

You get a tool to use. The tool looks good, in fact other tools from the same company look good. This tool though seems to be the red-headed stepchild. Recently, I have been trying to clean up and tune an endpoint solution. It is made by a company I have some respect for, and I…

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