Funemployment

My wife and I recently moved continents, and I have now joined the ranks of the funemployed, because (for our family) moving was more important that moving to a job. I'm certainly going to miss my old job (because, aside from being given billions of dollars and told to go explore the oceans, "Network Architect" is exactly where I want to be, and I worked with great people and did fun things!).

Read on for some thoughts on how to make the most of this process, and perhaps some ideas of what to do when you move vast distances...

Trust Boundaries and Reliable Backups: Ransomware Edition

A network whose administrators I know quite well has been thoroughly compromised and critical files encrypted, and much configuration destroyed. Even their backups (such as they were) are no more.

This is, to put it mildly, a fairly catastrophic incident for any organisation.

We turned our minds to the issue and thought about how we can prevent similar things happening to us...