Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
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via The Grugq, come's an enlightening view focusing on the security mindset of the original architects of the now ubiquitous internet.
If you can tear your sequestered, hunkered-down or quarantined eyeballs away from doomscrolling the truly horrific and saddening news of the day, you may be surprised by the information The Grugq conveys in short order. Enjoy.
The truth is that a vast number of System Engineers, Systems Administrators, Backup Administrators and Security Engineers habitually fail to test backups of their respective organization's data, resident at off-premises/on-premises cloud infrastructure prior to any incident/blackout.
Fundamentally, Information Security professionals and Systems professionals should all be intimately aware of daily backup testing rigor – leading to confirmation of the viability of the bits backed up (including the (hopefully) wise location of those bits). It's all about the spoon...
