The draft for this project has changed three times since starting – mostly due to resource constraints on my end.  I’ve bounced between hardware, hypervisors, and focus but I’ve settled on an approach.  My immediate needs outweighed the need for…

TCP and UDP are two very different protocols.  I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the years explaining these two issues to our power engineers and technicians.  What better topic to post here.

Here’s a Splunk query to list any changes to privileged Active Directory groups:

I’ve decided that one of my new habits is to keep my social media footprint to a bare minimum.  Listening to the newly discovered Complete Privacy and Security podcast has definitively changed my mind on how I handle my opsec.

I live in far Northern Maine – past the end of I-95. I would not have been able to earn my BS or MS degree without reliable internet at an acceptable cost.

Some sources for incident response playbooks for those who are interested:

I’ve been toying with getting this certificate for a while, but now I see this seems to be a golden ticket to get past the HR filters at larger companies. The cert demonstrates a broad knowledge of the overall security…

After a couple hours of boredom waiting for a conference to start, I decided to fire up Wireshark and see what I could see across the wireless.  I was greeted with the first few packets appearing to be my machine…

My family is approaching a major life crossroad: My stepson will graduate from high school next year and heading off to college. 

After a week of being very busy with other things, I wanted to take a few minutes and check on my blog only to be greeted by “Site cannot be reached.” SSH’ing into the site resulted in a similar response….