Remember when we used to manage firewalls with serial cables?

I was digging through my old junk drawer last night and found a Cisco console cable from my first IT job back in 2008. Back then we had to physically sit in a server room in Houston just to change a single ACL rule. Now I manage 150 firewalls from my kitchen table. Has anyone else moved fully to the cloud and still kept those old cables as a backup?

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hayden_rodriguez16h ago

So how many of those old firewall rules are still running untouched?

casey94334m ago

Man, @hayden_rodriguez you just hit on something that keeps me up at night honestly. I'd bet half of them are untouched from like 2017 or earlier, just sitting there collecting digital dust. The scary part is when someone finally goes to audit them and finds a rule thats wide open to the whole internet that nobody even remembers creating. Its like a time bomb in your network config that could blow up during any random compliance check or security review.