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The Internet of Blast Gates

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There’s nothing quite like building out a shop filled with tools, but even that enviable task has a lot of boring work that goes into it. You’ve got to run power, you’ve got to build benches, and you need to build a dust collection system. That last one is usually just fitting a bunch of pipe and tubes together and adding in a few blast gates to direct the sucking of your dust collection system to various tools around the shop.

For most shops with a handful of tools and dust collection ports, manually opening and closing each blast gate …read more

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Light Switch For The Lazy

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[Will Donaldson] has whipped up a quick hack for anyone thinking of dipping their toe into home automation — or otherwise detest flicking off the bedroom light before navigating their way to their bed: a remote control light switch!

This remote switch uses a sg90 servo, an Arduino Uno, and pairs of ATtiny85s with HC-05 Bluetooth modules assembled on protoboards. The 3D printed mount screws easily on top of a standard light switch cover while still allowing the switch to be flipped the old-fashioned way. It’s also perfect as a temporary solution — [Donaldson] is presently renting his apartment — …read more

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Danielle Applestone: Building the Workforce of 2030

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You wake up one morning with The Idea — the one new thing that the world can’t do without. You slave away at it night and day, locked in a garage expending the perspiration that Edison said was 99 percent of your job. You Kickstart, you succeed, you get your prototypes out the door. Orders for the new thing pour in, you get a permanent space in some old factory, and build assembly workstations.  You order mountains of parts and arrange them on shiny chrome racks, and you’re ready to go — except for one thing. There’s nobody sitting at …read more

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Global security spending to reach $96 billion in 2018

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Gartner forecasts worldwide enterprise security spending to total $96.3 billion in 2018, an increase of 8 percent from 2017. Organizations are spending more on security as a result of regulations, shifting buyer mindset, awareness of emerging threats a… Continue reading Global security spending to reach $96 billion in 2018→

Automatically Resize an Azure VM

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In this “how to” post, Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure Automation to scale up (increase) or scale down (decrease) the size of an Azure virtual machine.

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Enterprise security incident response trends to watch in 2018

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Resolve Systems shared the top trends to watch in 2018 relating to incident response and automation. The list of predictions are founded on the company’s insight into the challenges enterprises express in today’s new normal of high impact outages/breac… Continue reading Enterprise security incident response trends to watch in 2018→

Security Boulevard Chat: Update on Security & Compliance From Chef

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In this Security Boulevard Chat we speak with Dominik Richter and Dan Hauenstein of Chef. Dan and Dominik give us an update on the latest capabilities that Chef is building into its products to help with automating security & compliance. Some of th… Continue reading Security Boulevard Chat: Update on Security & Compliance From Chef→

Security Boulevard Chat: Update on Security & Compliance From Chef

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In this Security Boulevard Chat we speak with Dominik Richter and Dan Hauenstein of Chef. Dan and Dominik give us an update on the latest capabilities that Chef is building into its products to help with automating security & compliance. Some of th… Continue reading Security Boulevard Chat: Update on Security & Compliance From Chef→