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Do well, not be “popular”

Posted on March 9, 2022 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Do well, not be “popular”

I’ve had some things on my mind so this will turn into a rant or stream of consciousness. If you feel called out on this post, it happens. Hopefully this will help some others out there. See, I’ve spent the last 15 years, as I moved from a Network Engineer to a Security Engineer, trying…

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Gatekeeping and Treatment of Others

Posted on May 21, 2021 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Gatekeeping and Treatment of Others

There is an issue in the world that we see crop up in the Information Security/Cyber Security field, gatekeeping. We tend to equate it with making it more difficult to get a job, harder for people to break into the industry, and of course expecting people to just know things. The world of IT/IS we…

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Rants

The one about banking passwords…

Posted on March 5, 2021 By Michael Kavka No Comments on The one about banking passwords…

The world of cybersecurity understands the need for secure passwords. While passwords with special characters, numbers and both capital and lower case letters help make them more secure, length is a factor. These reasons, alongside with using unique passwords are why we recommend password managers. It has been a long running feud with sites to…

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