I was brought in to architect and deliver an data pipeline for updating their CMDBs from multiple data sources. The CMDB itself was hosted on Salesforce and the data sources were Discovery, Active Directory, Spreadsheets and SCCM.

A particular challenge was being restricted to operating remotely using TeamViewer – which does not perform well over data instensive remote connections – and requires an active user on the end to keep the connection going. This did cause development work to go much slower than planned, but thankfully did not cause overall delay to project.

The integrations were developed, tested and deployed successfully to the satisfaction of the client.

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I was assigned to advise an Investment Bank in Milan in how to deploy an agent for discovery of their Mainframe systems for dependency mapping.

The solution was straightforward which involved downloading and installing an additional agent for the BMC Discovery tool. During the brief consultancy visit I also identified and advised on their general issues with credential discovery. They had had a cyber-attack the previous year and as a precaution had altered all Linux servers to have individual named service accounts – over an estate of (IIRC) 500 Linux servers.

It was pointed out that whilst this would certainly slow down a hacker and limit the the damage, it would also be more difficult to trace and manage in the event of an attack. A much better solution was suggested of proactive management and linking service accounts to an AD service with monitoring and least privilege.

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