To do list for Feb 2016

Now in the mid of February, there are already tons of things waiting to be done. My team To Do list is almost 50 nos. long, and there are still many tasks coming up.

Having to spend hours and hours in meeting, it took away my time to do useful things. Getting calls during the meetings are common, that simply means I shouldn't be in the meeting! Yes, get out and do something else more fruitful.

Nowadays, security is the main focus, day in, day out, almost 60-70% of the time we are dealing with security audit RFIs, interviews, fixes, implementation, patching, etc. No longer are IDS good enough, now we have IPS (HIPS, NIPS), ArcSight Logger, syslog servers, Web defacement monitor and restorer appliances, SIEMS, WAF, Tripwire, the list goes one. The interesting thing is that the customers wants what others have, and yet, they didn't realised all these things cost heaps!