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Google Home – My First Week With Google’s Home Automation
I’ve spent the past week installing, configuring, learning and experimenting with Google Home automation. For the most part it has been an easy exercise but it comes with serious frustrations. The frustrations aren’t to do with limitations in the capabilities but rather in the faults and unexpected behavior (and my
Read moreBusiness Continuity Planning for Transactional Businesses
Business Continuity Planning is critical for transactional businesses more-so than non-transactional businesses. What do I mean by “transactional”? If you process things in real time such as sales of products or processing packages for shipment, you are transactional. The reason transactional businesses need to consider business continuity to a greater
Read moreThe Australian Encryption Laws – A Solution
The Australian lawmakers are passing laws that progressively take away privacy of the citizens of this country. The most recent successful attempt to increase the powers of the security agencies focuses in “encrypted message interception” which, in effect forced technology companies to assist security agencies with message interception. Exactly how
Read moreManage Everything With Ansible
Ansible is a buzz word at the moment. Ever since Redhat purchased Ansible back in 2016, it has been rare to hear about anyone deploying alternative automation systems. Recently Ansible has been commercialized into Ansible Tower allowing a wider audience to take advantage of the benefits of automation. I recently
Read moreCreating & Restoring From Snapshots in AWS
Just like with VMWare or Hyper-V, Amazon’s AWS supports snapshots and they make it easy to create them and restore from them. But in true AWS style, they don’t make it obvious how it works. I’m hoping to change that in this article. I’ve used the word “snapshot” but strictly
Read moreHow To SSH Tunnel – Access Resources Behind a Firewall
Scenario: You’re at home and want to log into the office Intranet to finish up some work. But wait, the Intranet is on your corporate network and you’re at home. Sure you can use your corporate VPN – if you have one and can remember the credentials. If not, consider
Read moreHow To Start a Staff Induction System
All businesses need a way to induct their new staff into the business. So far it’s either paper based, computer based or purely verbal. This article is for those that want to use a computer based system. Here’s an important tip. If you’re going to use an LMS (learning management
Read moreAustralian Institute of Company Directors | Taking IT Security Seriously
Recently I received an email forwarded-on by a company director who asked the question “How are we treating IT security in our business?”. I was pleasantly surprised. The email was originally sent by someone who had done the course and felt compelled to share it with those in similar positions
Read moreExam Kabam – Free Signup This Week Only
We’re excited to share our IT Security Exam preparation tool with our fellow IT professionals at no cost for the this week only. Next week it will be back to subscriptions only. Go to “https://www.examkabam.com/” and click the Signup button. Your free subscription will work for a month and no
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