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Insights & Field Notes
Short, opinionated, technical engineering pieces from the SRI INFOIT field team. OT/IT segmentation, SOC playbooks, infrastructure choices.
OT/IT Segmentation: What Plant Floors Actually Need
Most segmentation guides are written for enterprise IT. Manufacturing floors have different failure modes, different acceptable downtime thresholds, and different attacker profiles. Here's what we've actually seen in deployments.
How to Read a SOC Playbook Before You Buy One
Vendors will show you a 200-page playbook and call it a SOC. Here are the 8 questions we ask before recommending any SIEM/SOAR implementation — and why the answers tell you more than the product brochure.
EngineeringWhy We Self-Host Fonts (and You Probably Should Too)
Google Fonts is convenient but leaks visitor IPs, adds a DNS lookup to every page load, and breaks in privacy browsers. We moved all our web properties to self-hosted WOFF2 in 2025 and the tradeoffs were worth it.
CybersecurityRun a VAPT Before You Buy Your Next Firewall
Most firewall purchases are driven by vendor pitch cycles, not actual threat exposure. A proper VAPT report done first will tell you whether you need a ₹12L NGFW or whether your biggest risk is a misconfigured Windows share.
InfrastructureThe 5 Cabling Mistakes That Kill Warranty Claims in India
Tier-1 structured cabling vendors void warranties for installation errors all the time in India. We've seen ₹40L cabling projects fail channel tests because of bend radius violations and improper termination. What to spec and what to check.
ProcurementGeM Portal IT Tender Checklist: What Most SIs Get Wrong
Government tenders on GeM have specific compliance traps — Atmanirbhar Bharat requirements, OEM authorisation letters, MSME declaration formats. We've bid on 40+ GeM tenders. Here's what kills bids at the last stage.
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