Tech job - what do you do for living?

[wojtepanik]

Hey tech guys,

What do you do for living? Are you IT specialists? Contractors? Electricians ? Is there anything odd or intresting in your job?

I am working in small IT company, we manufacture VMS - video managment system, we build servers for cctv monitoring, for big, enterprise systems. If you have any question regarding CCTV, you can AMA. Also after hours, I am admin in small company.

[Radium_Angel]

8 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

What do you do for living

Nothing.

I'm employed by the State.

[wojtepanik]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Nothing.

I'm employed by the State.

By the State, you mean you for government  ?

[aisle9]

12 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

Hey tech guys,

What do you do for living? Are you IT specialists? Contractors? Electricians ? Is there anything odd or intresting in your job?

I am working in small IT company, we manufacture VMS - video managment system, we build servers for cctv monitoring, for big, enterprise systems. If you have any question regarding CCTV, you can AMA. Also after hours, I am admin in small company.

Mine isn't a "tech" job, per se, but I do handle data and analytics. I'm sort of a troubleshooter. I find the troubles and assist various departments in shooting them.

[wojtepanik]

2 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Mine isn't a "tech" job, per se, but I do handle data and analytics. I'm sort of a troubleshooter. I find the troubles and assist various departments in shooting them.

what kind of data? are you able to tell us or is it a big secret?

[Brooksie359]

I am a fire protection engineer so not super tech related. 

[Brooksie359]

Just now, Brooksie359 said:

I am a fire protection engineer so not super tech related. 

Granted I do happen to work on fire protection for data centers from time to time. I do work on fire protection for small server rooms within buildings quite often as well. 

[CrazieChipmunk]

I dont know if this counts but im going to be a character designer/3d modelling i dont know if this counts as tech related but

[Oshino Shinobu]

I'm a Security and Patch Management Engineer. 

 

I'm responsible for keeping our client's servers and workstations up to date and protected from security threats. 

[wojtepanik]

4 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

I am a fire protection engineer so not super tech related. 

Ha! right on my desk there is Honywell esser flex es fire system to integrate with our vms  

[wojtepanik]

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

I'm a Security and Patch Management Engineer. 

 

I'm responsible for keeping our client's servers and workstations up to date and protected from security threats. 

What is your solution for personall pcs for not tech peopole ? what kind of AV ?

[wojtepanik]

1 minute ago, wojtepanik said:

Ha! right on my desk there is Honywell esser flex es fire system to integrate with our vms  

 

[aisle9]

22 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

what kind of data? are you able to tell us or is it a big secret?

It deals with debit cards. I'm not forbidden to say more or anything like that, I'd just prefer not to get too much more specific about what I do with people I don't know on the internet.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, wojtepanik said:

What is your solution for personall pcs for not tech peopole ? what kind of AV ?

Most anti-virus software pulls from the same repositories, so none are definitively the best. Windows Defender does a decent job of protecting individual PCs. 

 

Most important thing really is to install OS updates frequently, it will protect you from a lot of things. I'd also recommend people do manual system scans with Malwarebytes every week or so. There's no particular reason to use a paid AV for individual PCs. 

 

At work, we don't approve any security patches newer than 30 days old so that we have time to find out if the updates break anything. For example, the majority of the Security Cumulative and Rollup updates in June broke the custom views and some filtering in Event Viewer, so we haven't been installing them anywhere. 

[TheoryInPractice]

I am a graphic designer ;) 

[wojtepanik]

Just now, TheoryInPractice said:

I am a graphic designer

show us some of your work !

[schwellmo92]

Currently an internal Software Engineer for a mining company. Previously I have been Help Desk Level 1, Business Analyst, Database Administrator and Systems Administrator (in that order).

[wojtepanik]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Most anti-virus software pulls from the same repositories, so none are definitively the best. Windows Defender does a decent job of protecting individual PCs. 

 

Most important thing really is to install OS updates frequently, it will protect you from a lot of things. I'd also recommend people do manual system scans with Malwarebytes every week or so. There's no particular reason to use a paid AV for individual PCs. 

 

At work, we don't approve any security patches newer than 30 days old so that we have time to find out if the updates break anything. For example, the majority of the Security Cumulative and Rollup updates in June broke the custom views and some filtering in Event Viewer, so we haven't been installing them anywhere. 

One of my customers I take care of, had nozelesn ransomwere, eventough he had norton installed. Do you limit any policies for the users? do you give them admin rights on their machines ?

[wojtepanik]

3 minutes ago, schwellmo92 said:

Currently an internal Software Engineer for a mining company. Previously I have been Help Desk Level 1, Business Analyst, Database Administrator and Systems Administrator (in that order).

what kind of software is specific for mining companies ?

[schwellmo92]

3 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

what kind of software is specific for mining companies ?

At the moment working on a mobile app for boosting productivity and safety.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, wojtepanik said:

One of my customers I take care of, had nozelesn ransomwere, eventough he had norton installed. Do you limit any policies for the users? do you give them admin rights on their machines ?

That depends on the customer. Some customers manager their own policies and domain, others, we have more involvement in (though the team I'm in doesn't deal with account permissions and such). For what it's worth, in pretty much every company we support, only actual IT administrators have admin rights on the computers, and even then, a lot will have a user account and then an admin version that they only use when they actually need it. 

 

Not too familiar with Nozelesn, but anti-virus doesn't protect against everything. WannaCry, for example, spread through unpatched Windows exploits. 

[Dredgy]

I’m managing director of a holding company that has a wide array of businesses under it including software development, real estate and food and beverage.

 

Most of my time I spend as wine buyer at a restaurant I own, because then I essentially get paid to drink.

[Radium_Angel]

59 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

By the State, you mean you for government  ?

Yes

[wojtepanik]

11 minutes ago, Dredgy said:

I’m managing director of a holding company that has a wide array of businesses under it including software development, real estate and food and beverage.

 

Most of my time I spend as wine buyer at a restaurant I own, because then I essentially get paid to drink.

so your job is to be rich mother fricker, love it !

[2FA]

I'm in charge of the networking infrastructure and some other various small things that technically aren't networking but are still IT/IS.