Attention all IT buffs

[mrs cuffy]

Ok, I've got an interview tomorrow for Centennial Software, can someone look at the web-site for me, and give me an explanation in english to there products...pretty please :D

http://www.centennial-software.com/

Only one i can work out is Devicewall, i take it that's a security program.
Thanks in advance.

Mrs Cuffy

[Carsick]

Discovery is for locating and auditing IT assets from one central point (ie, no walking round, just click and wait) and Discovery.Visual is for viewing nice pictures based on that information.
activeServer is to do with keeping track of how many licences are required for various bits of software.
deviceWall is for controlling transfer of files to/from USB device.

[mrs cuffy]

Thank you :D

Just got to try and bluff my way through the interview, luckily it's nothing to do with the technical side, They're looking for account managers...so fingers crossed.

[Carsick]

NP. I know what you mean about blagging it. I'm generally ok with the technical stuff but can't be arsed with the other side, so have to blag that.

[Ping]

:?

Good luck!
(I hate interviews and blagging is NOT one of my strong points so I sincerely wish you the best. :))

[cuffy]

:kiss: You'll be fine hun.

Especially if you tell them the IT jokes i told you :wink:

[anna]

oh god i hope you didnt tell them any of his jokes :roll:

Good luck and I hope that it all went well I will keep my fingers crossed for you but I'm sure that you dont need it I bet you dazzeled them ;)

[dirtydog]

oh god i hope you didnt tell them any of his jokes :roll:

Good luck and I hope that it all went well I will keep my fingers crossed for you but I'm sure that you dont need it I bet you dazzeled them ;)


Err i'ts tomorrow :roll:

[Law]

oh god i hope you didnt tell them any of his jokes :roll:

Good luck and I hope that it all went well I will keep my fingers crossed for you but I'm sure that you dont need it I bet you dazzeled them ;)


Err i'ts tomorrow :roll:

:lol:


Good luck on the interview.

[mrs cuffy]

Thank you all for your kind messages, god how I hate interviews !!!
Don't worry Anna I'II hold back on Cuffy's jokes :lol:

[Baph]

Good luck on the interview. I don't know how much you thought Carsick was talking English or not, so I figured I'd simplify some more. :oops:

Basically, they designed a piece of software to make it hard to read data going to (or coming from) various devices (serial, USB, parallel etc etc) but in order to market that product effectively, they designed another piece of software designed to tell technical bobs how crap their security was. The problem here, was that they couldn't get the directors of their target companies to see this, so designed a 3rd piece of software.

The first, DeviceWall, so named because it's like a firewall, only it doesn't protect the internet, it protects devices on your computer.

The second, Discovery was just as I said, to show technical bobs the technical data as to where they were going wrong. From here, they have a choice of how to secure things.

The third, Discovery.Visual was designed to make it easier for the technical people to make the directors of their company see the flaws, and push them towards applications like DeviceWall so that those flaws would be resolved.

Discovery.Dashboard extends this Visual capability across the internet.

Now, they also want to know who is running what (for their marketing purposes), so they ship activeServer. This can tell them by reporting back whenever an application is installed. This will say if only Discovery is used, or if Discover.Visual is used, and if this leads on to DeviceWall being used or not. Basically, it's just data mining under the guise of licences. Companies do that sort of thing all the time.

Basically, the way I see it, the typical system admin problem of how to secure a system. Ideally, you don't allow ANYTHING into the system that you cannot control. Years ago, this used to be Floopy disks. I had a nasty habit of removing floppy drives & CD drives from machines unless they were deemed 110% necessary. However, in some cases you need to be able to bring data into the system somehow. So you just make it as secure as possible, by forcing (at the Operating System level) the disks to be virus scanned before the user can do anything with them.

Today, replace floppy disks with USB memory sticks, and the principal is the same. This is what DeviceWall does, everything else that Centennial have done is to back up that product. Or at least, that's what their website says to me.

HTH

[anna]

Thank you all for your kind messages, god how I hate interviews !!!
Don't worry Anna I'II hold back on Cuffy's jokes :lol:

okay so I was a bit tired when writing orginal post thanks to the kind people for pointing out my error :roll: :wink:

soooooooooooooooo how did it go??

[mrs cuffy]

Baph thanks very much for your very detailed description that's great :thumbsup:
Anna think it went well!! well must have done as I've second interview on Friday so finger crossed!! [-o<