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The Safest Open Port Is the One You Don’t Need

Leave a Comment / IBM Power, IT, Security & Privacy, Technology, Uncategorized / Kelly J. Rose / August 13, 2026 / AS400, attack surface reduction, exit nodes, FIDO2 SSH, IBM i remote access, identity-based networking, MagicDNS, managed IT, mesh VPN, Microsoft Entra ID, network segmentation, Pangolin, secure remote access, split DNS, SSH security, subnet routers, Tailscale, WireGuard, YubiKey

We started using Tailscale because SSH access had become annoying. PANDAROSE operates systems across several cloud providers, internal networks, development environments, and client infrastructure. Our old approach relied on public IP allowlists, SSH tunnels, traditional VPNs, and enough firewall rules that changing Internet providers could become a small administrative event. The setup was reasonably secure. […]

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It Wasn’t Production Until It Was

Leave a Comment / IT, PandaCloud, Security & Privacy, Technology / Kelly J. Rose / July 27, 2026 / backup and disaster recovery, backup testing, business continuity, data recovery, development environment, disaster recovery planning, Edmonton, Git, infrastructure drift, managed IT, PandaCloud, production environment, server failure, source control, UPS failure, website hosting

There is a running joke that doctors make terrible patients, mechanics drive the worst cars, and contractors live for years with unfinished work in their own houses. IT companies have their own version of this. We spend our days providing managed IT support and telling clients to replace aging equipment, verify backups, test restores, monitor

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The AI Did Not Go Rogue. OpenAI Gave It a Job and Lost Control of the Test.

Leave a Comment / AI, IT, Security & Privacy, Technology, Uncategorized / Kelly J. Rose / July 22, 2026 / agentic AI, AI cybersecurity, AI risk, AI security, autonomous agents, cyber defence, cyber security, ExploitGym, GPT-5.6 Sol, Hugging Face, incident response, managed IT, network segmentation, open-weight models, OpenAI, zero-day vulnerabilities

OpenAI would very much like us to understand that its newest models are terrifyingly capable. Its account of the recent Hugging Face security incident uses phrases such as “unprecedented cyber incident,” “state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” and “advanced models can discover and exploit novel attack paths.” After explaining how an internal evaluation escaped containment and compromised another

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The AS400 Is Not Expensive. Buying It Blindly Is Expensive.

Leave a Comment / Business Analysis, Enterprise Integration, IBM Power, IT, Uncategorized / Kelly J. Rose / July 22, 2026 / AS400, AS400 support, business analysis, CL, enterprise integration, IBM i, IBM i consulting, IBM i right-sizing, legacy systems, managed IT, RPG

I like IBM i. I should probably say that up front, because this is not one of those articles where someone discovers an old system, squints at a green screen for four minutes, and declares that everything needs to be replaced by something “cloud-native” before lunch. I grew up around AS400 systems, RPG, CL, printer

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