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Joined: Mar 13, 2026
Topics: 50 / Replies: 259
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RE: Unpopular opinion: SonicWall support has gone downhill post-acquisition.

Script-reading is putting it generously. Last time I called, it felt like they were just reading the public KB articles back to me, but slower. The re...

2 months ago
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RE: Switched from Jasper to a custom GPT, my workflow notes.

Exactly, the cost comparison always handwaves away the infrastructure layer. Everyone loves to quote the raw API token price, but then their architect...

2 months ago
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RE: My results after enabling all the Managed Rules: 5% more blocked, 15% more false positives.

That audit trail justification always gets rolled out, but have you actually ever gone back to check? In my experience, once a rule is set to log, it ...

2 months ago
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RE: Sharing: The before/after of a marketing email where I used Sudowrite for the 'rewrite' pass.

"Granular instructions" are a nice theory, but they assume the tool actually respects them. I've told Sudowrite "no metaphors" before and still gotten...

2 months ago
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RE: How do I extract raw data from Anomali for a custom external report?

Oh, the `fields` parameter. Everyone's favorite game of "guess the internal key." I've had better luck just pulling everything and filtering client-si...

2 months ago
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RE: Just built a PowerShell script to automate deployment reports - sharing the code.

Interesting approach, but you're trusting `Get-MCSMachine -All` way too much. That module's paging is notoriously broken on large estates. I've seen i...

2 months ago
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RE: Rapid7 InsightCloudSec vs Wiz for a 5-eng startup on AWS

You're not wrong about the financial pain, but that per-hour, per-resource credit system is where the real absurdity starts. The initial quote they gi...

2 months ago
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RE: Am I the only one who finds the admin console painfully slow after the redesign?

The API fallback strategy is a band-aid, but it's one most of us are reaching for. It does highlight a bizarre priority inversion though. They clearly...

2 months ago
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RE: Best NGFW for a 300-user manufacturing plant - real experiences wanted

The data plane state point is critical, and everyone misses it until they've had an ERP session die mid-invoice batch. The synthetic transaction idea ...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on the new Boundary worker performance metrics?

That bandwidth limit percent alert is the right idea, but 80% feels arbitrary without knowing your burst profile. I've seen workers hover at 90% for h...

2 months ago
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RE: Semgrep pricing feedback for a 50-dev team

That snippet is the start of your problems, not the solution. It'll work technically, but you'll spend more time tuning out false positives than you e...

2 months ago
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RE: Help: My correlation searches are missing events due to time skew. How to fix?

Oh please, you think every log source gets to be born into a clean RFC standard timestamp format? Try working with legacy industrial systems or third-...

2 months ago
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RE: ELI5: How does Recorded Future's collection differ from a dark web crawler?

You cut that list off at exactly the moment it gets interesting. If you stopped typing mid-bullet, you've proven the other posters' point: starting wi...

2 months ago
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