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Best Practices – from 30 Years Ago
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–by Andrew McCaskey
Several recommendations today. First of all you know that bad data can propogate in databases for years - my personal example is the first few letters of my last name that got enshrined in some company HR system as MC space C and others as McC, along with some systems requiring leading zeros on the employee number to pad to eight characters in some field, and others being satisfied with the employee number of whatever length. It’s the same with best practices that become enshrined long after the need is gone. The article from Gene Stafford at Purdue speaks exactly to that issue ”
Here’s what he says
“As best as I can find, some DoD contractors did some back-of-the-envelope calculation about how long it would take to run through all the possible passwords using their mainframe, and the result was several months. So, they (somewhat reasonably) set a password change period of 1 month as a means to defeat systematic cracking attempts. This was then enshrined in policy, which got published, and largely accepted by others over the years. As time went on, auditors began to look for this and ended up building it into their “best practice†”
The second gem that came to light today is a free 40 page downloadable e-Book from Rajesh Setty, a fellow Gnomedexer.. It’s called :”Personal Branding for Technology Professionals”, and it’s some heavy reality for anyone in the technology arena – especially the IT field or pure technologists. The cycle is familiar. It takes you years to develop a skill set, and if they are really in demand, there’s an uptick. But your value quickly erodes, the marketplace flooded with the same skill. Oversupply moves quickly to commoditization, and the cycle repeats – if you want to stay in the game. If you want to thrive in the marketplace for the long term, you need more than technology skills alone. Rejesh is the author of Beyond Code. I’ve linked it on SDR, and atwhatever stage you are in your technology journey, this free download is highly recommended.
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