Tag: Security
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Entities and Attributes
Quadrant models are useful organizing tools. Let’s use one to look at the problem of managing the attributes of entities in systems visibility. I’m not expecting to solve the problem, just usefully describe the playing field. Horizontal axis:* persistent entities with changing attributes* ephemeral entities with static attributes Vertical axis:*…
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Moving the transformation point of data
There’s a pattern that has become common knowledge, perhaps on its way to received wisdom. Endpoints pass their raw data off to storage as quickly as possible. Analysts then do their work against that storage using map reduced processors, automated and/or ad hoc. This pattern has many benefits and is…
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DURSLEy and CAPS
Monitoring and metrics! Theoretically any system that a human cares about could be monitored with these three patterns: LETS USE RED I’m hardly the first to notice there’s overlap… here’s a good starting point to read from. I haven’t seen these compressed to a single metric set yet, probably from not…
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Phases of Data Modeling
Phase 1 – it works for me Phase 2 – it works for my team Phase 3 – it works for my role in other teams Say that you want to use some data to answer a question. You’ve got a firewall, it’s emitting logs, and you make a dashboard…
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Security Logging
Security logging is interesting. Detecting security and compliance issues means uncovering nasty little leakages of unintentional or surprising information all over. When you add a powerful security tool to the environment, it starts to shine light into dark corners. No one expects that temporary file of sensitive data or the…
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Engines and fuel – who writes quality content?
In software, everyone wants to build engines, and no one wants to make fuel. A platform for executing content has high potential leverage and lots of vendors make those. The expected community of fuel makers rarely materializes. Content for software engines breaks down along two axes: simplicity versus complexity and…
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Tools and the Analyst
Let’s say I’m responsible for a complex system. I might have a lot of titles, but for a big part of my job I’m an analyst of that system. I need tools to help me see into it and change its behavior. As an analyst with a tool, I have…
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Dev and Test with Customer Data Samples
The short answer is don’t do it. Accepting customer data samples will only lead to sorrow. Not even if they gave it to you on purpose so you can develop for their use case or troubleshoot their problem. The person who wants you to do that may not be fully…
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GDPR is great for Facebook and Google
GDPR is going to be great for Facebook and Google. “Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public.” — Norton’s Law. See Haunted By Data by Maciej Cegłowski and The State of Artificial Intelligence by Andrew Y Ng for more background and viewpoints. Picture two types of data store, public…
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Where’s the Product in AI?
AI & ML products are harder than they look AI tech is obviously overhyped, and conflating with ideas from science fiction and religion. I prefer using terms like Machine Intelligence and Cognitive Computing, just to avoid the noise. But if we strip away the most unrealistic stuff, there’s some interesting…
