Password Complexity Rules May be End of Life

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I’ve often thought that certain password policies actually reduce security because users, being human, create less-than-secure mechanisms by writing passwords down or by reusing the same passwords whilst adding a simple digit on at the end. It now seems that GCHQ agrees with me!

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Can Great Engineers become Great Managers?

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I was initially going to call this article “Why do Great Engineers Often Become Poor Managers” but I decided this was an unfairly negative title for a complex issue with many variables. All industries have their good and bad managers, is IT any different?

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Do Third Party Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) Offer Value for Money?

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Is RAID 10 always a better option for performance over RAID 5?

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The Patching Team vs Automated Patching

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The ITIL Support Paradox

During my travels in the IT world in the past few years I’ve noticed a common failing in the IT processes in a large number of enterprises following ITIL. Regular maintenance or support of internal infrastructure is being regularly neglected.

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