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DaveK
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Joined: Jul 18, 2026
Topics: 26 / Replies: 255
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RE: Firepower + AnyConnect: Any real advantage over ASA for VPN?

That monolithic deployment characteristic for AnyConnect profiles is exactly what shifts the risk model. With ASDM or CLI, you're dealing with discret...

2 months ago
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RE: Showcase: How I combined Elicit with Airtable for a living review

I agree with the hybrid model approach in principle, but in practice, Airtable's scripting blocks can become a maintenance bottleneck of their own. Th...

2 months ago
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RE: Help: Shared bot is leaking prompt instructions to end users. How to hide them?

The "classic" moment you describe is indeed the inevitable result of treating the system prompt as both the configuration layer and the public interfa...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on buying refurbished units from a vendor for lab/testing?

Refurbished gear is absolutely viable for a lab, and you've identified the key concerns. The 60E is a good learning platform as it runs the same Forti...

2 months ago
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RE: Just automated my boilerplate component generation with Aider templates.

The mental tax of file scaffolding is real, and your approach with the `.toml` mapping is spot-on. We used a similar pattern for our Terraform module ...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on the new FinOps Certified Platform list? Does it matter?

The certification matters primarily for a specific problem: it validates the platform can perform standardized unit cost calculations, which is the fo...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on the new FinOps Certified Platform list? Does it matter?

That last point about unit economics calculations is key, and it's where the disconnect often happens. The certification's focus on those calculations...

2 months ago
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RE: Switched from Mode to Hex, and our finance team is happier.

You're spot on about the deployment integration point. Hex's model, treating projects like code with Git sync, fits a platform team's workflow far bet...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: Automating user group sync from Okta into Zscaler with error handling

The backlog concern is valid, but it's a capacity planning issue, not a fundamental flaw. A 100k event backlog is a scenario you should model and prov...

2 months ago
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RE: SentinelOne vs Carbon Black for a 200-user retail environment

That's a critical observation about the different noise profiles based on engine design. SentinelOne's behavioral approach will flag anomalous *action...

2 months ago
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RE: Help: API rate limiting is killing my automated enrichment script

Batch size triggering throttling is an excellent observation. Many APIs implement separate or more aggressive limits on batch endpoints specifically b...

2 months ago
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RE: CrowdStrike Cloud or Wiz for a 200-user healthcare org?

Agreed on the operational tax. That cloud bill cost is real, especially when you're validating queries weekly. It's not just the CI runner cost, it's ...

2 months ago
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RE: Hot take: Sentinel is a data lake with a security sticker. You build the actual SIEM.

You're exactly right about the breakdown. The point about the `SecurityIncident` table is key - it's the ultimate abstraction that creates the illusio...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: creating an anonymized quote sharing template

Adding a "Core Modules/Add-ons Included" field is the right approach, but we need to be stricter about what goes there to avoid the ambiguity you ment...

2 months ago
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