Not sure why I got into the tech industry on the security front >35 years ago. I suppose being thrust into the military with a willingness to do whatever, being stationed in Germany when the Wall went down was a factor. But that’s what I did for the most part – systems, physical, personnel, crypto – sometimes simultaneously depending on how poorly resourced the unit at hand was.
Guess I’m lucky enough to have made my past profession a current hobby. That’s a nice benefit considering the now ambulatory-restricted health condition I find myself in. In fact I’m certain the desk-bound nature of my last couple jobs with Lockheed is the only reason I made it as far as I did. Those long walks across Schriever were getting increasingly tiring.
So the current project on the 5712 tech home front is migrating off a long-running Synology NAS. That is a great system with few complaints from me. It’s well-designed and easy for non-techies to use. But (BIG but) it’s proprietary, with limited functionality and high initial outlay and O&M risk. The biggest part of that “but” involves software security in today’s politically charged cyber war. In case nobody noticed, the next U.S. Civil War has been in progress on the cyber front for a few years now.
I won’t be waiting around to see if Synology eventually becomes another Solarwinds-type casualty on the cyber battleground. It’s a bit tedious setting things up manually to manage the cameras with FTP server scripts, but probably alot easier than dealing with Synology and the software community generally speaking, in the long run.
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