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Rob is the IT Systems Manager for a manufacturing automation company in Southwestern Ontario. It's great. He's a technologist focusing on information technology, IT security, and customer satisfaction. With over 20 years of experience in various IT roles, it might actually be worth reading some of his stuff.

State of the Blog, April 2021

Site Metrics Page Views/Month New Users/Month 53/250 10 Running 3 months Total Clicks Impressions Click Thru Ratio Avg Position 4 87 4.6% 40.9 Analysis The blog has only been posting content since 2021/02/16. As there are less than 20 posts on the site there has…

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My Communication About Windows Updates

There's a lot of disinformation around Windows updates and I frequently have to debunk the notion that Windows updates should only be applied as a last resort. Just about all my coworkers at my two most recent gigs (and the folks I help on the…

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Security 101: Access Approval Documentation

Are all required approvals documented for each access request or modification to a user's or account's access privileges? Summary Essentially what this requirement is asking for is a record of every addition or modification to an individual (or group's) access to a system or data…

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Security 101: The Series

This post is the introduction of a series I'm working on. I'm taking a list of security compliance questions that a client or an auditor might present to a company and expanding on what it means, how important it is, how one would introduce controls…

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