I’ve been to Cisco Live a few times, and while the events are years a part I could easily state that I’m familiar enough to have a good picture of what to expect and how to focus and organize myself around the conference.And as such I’m not the target audience of the many “New to …
I want to go over some basic logging [for network devices] & syslog. Why it’s important and how easy it is to set up.No, I’m not talking about your SIEM of choice, but a simple ubuntu based syslog for networking devices. The post is going to be split into two sections: The WHY – Why …
Cross posted from my LinkedIN In 2015 I achieved my Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) certification, and I renewed it in 2019 and 2021.Last week I attemped to renew but failed the exam.While I review my weak areas and prepare for another attempt it’s important to highlight that when we’re celebrating our wins …
One of my favorite “moments” in 2022 spanned over a few days, or Cisco Live (Vegas) 2022I was planning for a big writeup, but I get lost in between being to detailed to trying to get rid of walls-of-texts and summarize more. Either way, I went way out of my comfort zone, and got introduced …
TL;DR: Setting Ubuntu up to authenticate SSH to AD and using AD groups to control access Historically, I’ve never been in the position where I’d have to set up a linux machine to authenticate to Active Directory, or wanted to.Decided to test this in my LAB today though. Basic idea/constraint: Be able to authenticate to …
So, there was this new article…https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel Some people are desperately looking at this article in a way where this somehow “saves the day.”Like… as if the Red Hat teams had, within a single month, just abandoned a year worth of work and changed their minds. Aside from the fact that little to nothing actually changed …
Recently, CentOS announced some big changes to the future of CentOS.CentOS has been my OS of choice for all linux related projects, both personally and in business environments.Along with the initial announcements, there was somewhat a clear statement that CentOS would not be suited to run “production” environments. What followed was a heated debate if …
For testing and blogging(?) purposes, I have a few websites up & running.Until recently, they’ve been behind an f5 Application Delivery Controller (ADC), or more traditionally named: loadbalancer.No practical reason other than it gives me the environment I want to play around with f5 features (ASM, etc.) with “real” traffic, although 99.5% from myself and …
So, YAS. I haven’t “blogged” in a *really* long time.Though there have been a few unsuccessful attempts to begin again. I’m not saying this will be any different, but avoiding failures only keeps you back.Plus, this is a relatively insignificant, and privileged, obstacle anyway.This is, however, a part of a bigger picture on a personal …