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My job is to maintain the Network for my company.. this can include support for Cisco Routers, T1's, OC3's.. etc.. Basically anything that carries between us and our customers and within the company. So today, a manager asks me to give them some bandwidth usage stats on a T1 link we have going to a customer site.. No problem! I'll just hop into the Cisco, reset some counters, wait a couple hours, and blamo.. statistics!
Great.. I open up my telnet program, telnet into the router in question.. username.. password... Access denied.. WTF?! Try it again.. Access Denied!! No frigan way.. I must have changed my password and forgot.. So I have my co-worker come in.. Access denied.. Ok, now I am pissed.. But no problem, I'll just hook into the console port, use our backdoor password, and get the information required... ACCESS DENIED.. Ok, now I am really pissed.. So I phone up some of the senior LAN people in our company.. Can you guys PLEASE try logging into this router, I can't get in.. They try it.. ACCESS DENIED..
Ok, so now I punch the cabinet this thing is in, and make a lot of noise.. Its not 5:30 and I want to go home, not screw around with trying to log in and do something as simple as capture some stats... Then the manager of our LAN dept tells me that they have outsourced corporate security responsibilities to India.. INDIA?! Yeah, India.. we have an office in India and apparently someone thought they should be in charge of our security.. Ok.. this is just great.. we have some people 15,000 miles around the planet controlling MY access to our Cisco routers... FINE! Call India and tell them I need access to the damn Cisco's! Oh, that will take a couple of hours to resolve.. A couple of HOURS?! Are you kidding me? What if this were a real problem??? What if the ROUTER to India is down, and they can't change my access, but yet I can't fix the problem on the router because I don't have access...
Argh.. This is just crazy.. Anyone else have this problem with "Corporate Security"? They somehow think that console access to a Cisco is too risky, and make me jusify why I need access... Never mind I can walk 100 feet into our computer room, and with one flick of the emergency shutdown switch, I can shut down hundreds of servers, and thousands of customers in one fell swoop.. I could destroy our company so easy it wouldn't be funny, and yet they don't trust me with CONSOLE access?! Stupid people.. I can't wait until we have that high profile customer outage, and I can't get access, and the people in India are unavailable for whatever reason.. The **** will hit the fan, and that security will come right back here where it belongs... idiots.
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My job is to maintain the Network for my company.. this can include support for Cisco Routers, T1's, OC3's.. etc.. Basically anything that carries between us and our customers and within the company. So today, a manager asks me to give them some bandwidth usage stats on a T1 link we have going to a customer site.. No problem! I'll just hop into the Cisco, reset some counters, wait a couple hours, and blamo.. statistics!
Great.. I open up my telnet program, telnet into the router in question.. username.. password... Access denied.. WTF?! Try it again.. Access Denied!! No frigan way.. I must have changed my password and forgot.. So I have my co-worker come in.. Access denied.. Ok, now I am pissed.. But no problem, I'll just hook into the console port, use our backdoor password, and get the information required... ACCESS DENIED.. Ok, now I am really pissed.. So I phone up some of the senior LAN people in our company.. Can you guys PLEASE try logging into this router, I can't get in.. They try it.. ACCESS DENIED..
Ok, so now I punch the cabinet this thing is in, and make a lot of noise.. Its not 5:30 and I want to go home, not screw around with trying to log in and do something as simple as capture some stats... Then the manager of our LAN dept tells me that they have outsourced corporate security responsibilities to India.. INDIA?! Yeah, India.. we have an office in India and apparently someone thought they should be in charge of our security.. Ok.. this is just great.. we have some people 15,000 miles around the planet controlling MY access to our Cisco routers... FINE! Call India and tell them I need access to the damn Cisco's! Oh, that will take a couple of hours to resolve.. A couple of HOURS?! Are you kidding me? What if this were a real problem??? What if the ROUTER to India is down, and they can't change my access, but yet I can't fix the problem on the router because I don't have access...
Argh.. This is just crazy.. Anyone else have this problem with "Corporate Security"? They somehow think that console access to a Cisco is too risky, and make me jusify why I need access... Never mind I can walk 100 feet into our computer room, and with one flick of the emergency shutdown switch, I can shut down hundreds of servers, and thousands of customers in one fell swoop.. I could destroy our company so easy it wouldn't be funny, and yet they don't trust me with CONSOLE access?! Stupid people.. I can't wait until we have that high profile customer outage, and I can't get access, and the people in India are unavailable for whatever reason.. The **** will hit the fan, and that security will come right back here where it belongs... idiots.
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