“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” — Peter Sondergaard 📬 The Inbox That Never Gets Checked I have worked at a few companies that used email n...

“Security is not a product, but a process.” — Bruce Schneier 🐕 The Big Friendly Dog Problem Until recently, I lived in a small town on the prairies of Canada. Most nights, we didn’t lock our d...

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans Hofmann 🧱 Building Without Seeing the Whole Picture I don’t remember playing with Lego as a...

“Security is not a product, but a process.” — Bruce Schneier I’ve sat through more compliance audits than I care to count. Back in the early days, an audit meant a person with a clipboard walki...

“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” — Carly Fiorina When I started in IT over 40 years ago, one of the biggest points of contention around servers wasn’t ...

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” — Peter Drucker When I started thinking about Linux as a serious corporate desktop, one thing became obvious pretty quickly: we already have a mature ...

Introduction Modern enterprise desktop management leverages several specialized technologies that work together to create reliable, secure, and maintainable systems. This primer provides business-...

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin Some of us may remember Knoppix, w...

Updating systems should be simple, right? For your average home user or small setup, it usually is. But once you’re managing a medium to large environment, things start getting a lot more complicat...

Earlier in my career, I worked for a company that performed full software audits across corporate desktop environments. These audits were part of SOC compliance, and we would usually receive an ema...