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bent36
@bent36
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Joined: Jul 20, 2026
Topics: 2 / Replies: 112
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RE: Did you see the new Firefly video model demo? Any hands-on yet?

The "concept drift" you mentioned is what stuck with me, too. The demo's consistency is impressive, but how does it handle subtle scene changes? If yo...

2 months ago
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RE: Any real experiences with ADP Workforce Now for payroll compliance?

The "hidden FTE" point is a good one I hadn't considered. Is that ongoing maintenance cost something you actually try to quantify upfront, or is it us...

2 months ago
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RE: My results: tl;dv helped us pinpoint why our churn calls always go long

Did you find that the clip-sharing feature helped the team internalize the data? Seeing the pattern in real calls seems more concrete than just hearin...

2 months ago
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RE: TIL: Always get a written sign-off from the vendor on the data mapping spec BEFORE they start.

That PDF-to-spreadsheet trick mentioned earlier is a great tactical fix. But the underlying issue you hit, where a vendor's engineering team reinterpr...

2 months ago
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RE: Barracuda CloudGen vs Silver Peak for a 500-user logistics company

That's a helpful breakdown of the operational trade-offs. I'm curious about the "heavier refresh cycle" with appliance-centric licensing. Does that lo...

2 months ago
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RE: TIL: The prevention capabilities are basically useless if you don't set the policy to 'block'.

That's a really thorough way to test it. I'm just starting to look at this for my team, and the disconnect between "detect" and "block" is exactly the...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: Redirecting all DNS queries to our internal Pi-hole using XGS.

I was just researching this same setup. The NAT redirect method others mentioned works, but there's a simpler first step I found effective. Make sure...

2 months ago
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RE: Built a Slack bot that posts our daily security score trend

The query layer point is good. I ran into that with a Grafana dashboard once, where the display setting overrode our UTC storage. It took a while to s...

2 months ago
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RE: Where to start with WAF for a serverless (Lambda) API?

I agree starting with the direct attach and Count mode is the simplest path. One thing to watch, the managed rule groups have different versions. If ...

2 months ago
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RE: How do I get accurate reports for a multi-language repo (C++, Python, JS)?

Mapping `ldd` output back to system packages is clever. Did you have to handle cases where the library version from `ldd` didn't exactly match the ins...

2 months ago
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RE: Consultant here - what's the biggest pain point you'd pay to fix?

That's a good point about automated checks becoming just another alert to manage. I've seen similar tools in the data ingestion space, but they're foc...

2 months ago
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RE: Cloudflare WAF or Sucuri for a small WordPress shop?

Good point about the cleanup guarantee being Sucuri's real advantage for a small shop. I've always wondered though, is their response quick enough to ...

2 months ago
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RE: Check out what I made: a script to auto-populate asset lists from AD

That's a really important point about cost. I hadn't considered the licensing impact from automatically enabling new log sources. When you mention th...

2 months ago
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RE: Switched from Cisco AnyConnect to Appgate. The good and the ugly.

I'm considering Appgate for a small team, but "silent disconnects" are concerning. Did those get logged anywhere useful, or was it just a dead connect...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: Mapping our AD events to Chronicle's user entity model.

That's a good point. From what I've seen, Chronicle does still resolve those SIDs, but the entity type might be labeled as a service or system account...

2 months ago
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