Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget To Do
The O’Reilly Network has a well written essay on the top seven security mistakes system administrators typically make. While some of the mistakes are “softball,” some of the mistakes are big enough to crash your system. This is well worth the read even for non-system administrators as it outlines some excellent security practices.
You could look at the number of times you forget something. If you did that, you might get a list of things like forgetting to set your alarm clock or showing up to work with unmatched socks. We need something scarier, like forgetting to turn off remote access through a VPN to an employee that just left the company.
In writing this article, I felt like the Simon Cowell of technologists, but in reverse. Out of many worthy candidates I could only pick seven, and Paula Abdul couldn’t vote. Beside my own subjective view, I decided to consult other engineers. The men and women I consulted felt the criterion was obvious: administrators forget to do things that matter.
I could cite many reasons why they forget some critical tasks. Those reasons include doing jobs that normally take two or more people, having to provide break-fix services on hardware, covering for absentee help desk personnel or getting involved in pre-sale activities. Regardless, here is the compilation of the top seven things system administrators forget to do.
Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget To Do - [O’Reilly Network]
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