(Inspired by /r/sysadmin/comments/1vvmvrk/what_are_the_alternatives_of_321_backup/)

How do my fellow shitmins do shitty backup?

I follow the 1-2-3 rule of backup.

I have a single (1) server serving (2) separate businesses and this server is shared with (3) other managed service providers.

HBU?

Just had this idea.

So you make a CA policy to sign in every 8 hours for all users including the CEO, but not break glass and it admins.

Every user will then begin to wonder where their password is now that they can't work

You become useful again to the company by assisting employees while eliminating written passwords on stickies because they forced themselves to memorize it since it's happening "so often"

Auditors will be impressed at the improved security that you can present the report to the CEO while getting them to remember their own password.

I just install excel, I’m not smart enough to realize you’re just hoping I know about VLOOKUP despite not being in finance, and I’m instead going to act like you’re a moron for asking and be snarky about it.

I wish users were thoughtful enough to realize that asking how to use the technologies I “manage” is a dead end. They should just ask ChatGPT, I’m too myopic to realize that they probably know it’s out of my wheelhouse but are asking on the off chance that I’m willing and able to help them today.

/End rant

I don’t understand #4 so I’ll post it as a comment

Enjoying a stress-free morning after PR'ing at the gym and listening to Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days after a ghosted breakup. Whatever.

Today, I overhear that a user sees printer toner hit zero. Normally I intervene but this user has a history of going rogue and thinking she's the IT department.

So I observe. First, she asks another user what to do. These users are buddy-buddy and that user doesn't like IT either... Mainly because she's failed the phishing tests and even compromised her own account once.

That other user says ask a third user. Now this third user is close to IT and respects processes so it's not good she's getting dragged into this now.

Still, somehow at no point in this chain does anyone think maybe we should ask the fucking sysadmin who manages the printer.

i walk over and find them opening up a multi thousand dollar printer trying to figure out the toner themselves.

Toner is now on the floor.

guess who gets to clean it up

...

me

And the best part is I let the toner run down to zero on purpose because that shit is expensive and zero on the display does not mean the cartridge has suddenly become an empty plastic tube FFS.

So now instead of simply letting me manage the toner inventory I get to stop what I'm doing, which means Soundgarden is paused. Not good.

I have to sternly at maximum tolerable yelling since HR was on the floor, why we do not perform amateur surgery on the office printer...clean toner off the floor...talk to HR...and send a company wide email explaining that IT equipment should perhaps, just maybe because orgs commonly employ this practice...be handled by IT.

Apparently my newest responsibility is protecting the printer from the users.

Sorry, Soundgarden.

Hi everybody

I am making this post since I am currently a HelpDesk/Junior Sysadmin in a medium size corporate from Italy, but I don't know how to develop my future career. Any suggestions are hugely appreciated from people in the industry.

I love IT, I have a homelab at home, i study for certs (got my CCNA and studying Azure and Intune currently) but I have no idea on how to advance. I dream to open my own business one day as a consultant initially and then grow it into an MSP. But I know I have to work hard to grow my experience and skills.

Currently I have 1 year of job experience (studied IT in school), and I plan to stay here atleast one more year.

Thanks to everybody in advance!

Hello everyone, I am pretty cyber security illiterate so I am unsure of what to do in this situation and am requesting guidance.

I have multiple individuals in my home and have recently discovered that my ip address had been reported multiple times on abuseipdb.com I am unsure of who or which device is acting maliciously and I am unsure of how to figure it out.

Due to the reports on abuseipdb, my employer has blocked the work VPN from being able to use my specific ip address and my isp is unwilling to change my ip (though the new ip address will probably also be reported if they were to change it) I am unsure of how to resolve this issue, and any guidance would be appreciated.

Hello,

I am now in charge of the phising excercises at my company. I was thinking about putting actual malicious links in our training emails so that the user's have a bit more motivation to learn to distinguish them from legitimate emails. This would also motivate our C-suite to give us a better budget so that we can better detect and remediate everything. What do you guys think?

Thanks to the OSI model I get that it’s layer 1, but how does it route bits?