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DevOps vs. systems administration

Capgemini

Most people are aware of the traditional role of a system administrator. System Administrators provide the computing environment and access to the engineers, enabling them to do their job and move on to the next request. In the System Administrator model, there is a clear separation of duties between IT and Engineering.

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Leveling Up: Skill Building for Systems Administrators

taos

Engage the source: read the source code; review the release notes; review outstanding bugs. This is an area where our community could build much better tools. Survey blog posts/conference presentations for overviews and specific pointers. Install the software into a test environment; play with it there.

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Differentiating people, process, and technology problems: A guide for CISOs

CIO

Were their vulnerability detection tools falling short by, for example, generating false positive alerts about vulnerabilities that didn’t actually exist? Nor can you determine whether investing in a new patching tool improves your vulnerability remediation velocity if you’re not tracking the relevant data.

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Leveling Up: Skill Building for Systems Administrators

taos

Engage the source: read the source code; review the release notes; review outstanding bugs I appreciate all of these, and all are exercises for any level of skill. This is an area where our community could build much better tools. Doing so follows the adage of ‘practice makes perfect.’ Finally, why talk about any of this stuff?

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Enhancing the employee experience

Xebia

The impact of system simplicity on autonomy Simplicity in the systems that employees use during work can have a positive influence on the sense of autonomy. When systems and tools are user-friendly, employees have more control over their work processes and can readily make decisions on how to organize and carry out their tasks.

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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO

MSP’s business models are typically defined by the following commonalities: Service delivery: MSPs assume responsibility for specific IT systems and functions on behalf of their clients, managing them proactively, either remotely via the cloud or onsite. Take, for example, legacy systems.

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Detecting Risky Third-party Drivers on Windows Assets

Tenable

Kernel-mode drivers are critical yet risky components of the Windows operating system. Windows is an operating system that, over its 40-plus years of history, has developed more than a few arcane components that are a mystery to many systems administrators. What is a kernel-mode driver?

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