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Over Complicated?

Posted on June 28, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Over Complicated?

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.” – 7th Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) in Battlefield So which do we have? Talk to people and computers is magic, is technology is both. Those of us that understand computers are wizards, magicians, technological experts. To…

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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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