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Solar Generation Milestone
Excited to have passed the 1MWh generation! It took just over a month to reach this point. Continue reading
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GIAC GSE
I ended up taking the multiple choice portion of the exam earlier this summer. Besides GIAC’s GSE page another good resource is the Google Group: giac-study . Continue reading
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Forensics – Windows in Depth
Finished the course FOR408 which is a great class in Windows Forensics as well as a good overview of forensics on general. While there I took the Offensive Countermeasures hosted course. It certainly opened my eyes to some possibilities in information gathering. I enjoyed reading something Ray Davidson tweeted about: this Forbes article. Continue reading
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GCIH Gold Paper
My GIAC GCIH Gold paper titled Infiniband Fabric and Userland Attacks is now up on the SANS website. Follows is the abstract: For almost a decade InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) has become a networking choice amongst the Top 500 High Performance Computing Clusters of the world because of the lower cost, higher throughput, and lower latency… Continue reading
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Recreating my home lab
Unfortunately a few weeks ago I had a hard drive failure on my VMWare ESXi server. Not too surprising given that the hard drives were about two years old and certainly were tortured by heat stress. I had a few of the VMs backed up but did end up losing some nicely configured VMs. So… Continue reading
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GCIA Silver
Passed the GCIA Exam today. Next step is the Gold paper for this. I think I will continue the trend of the GCIH Gold paper theme of infiniband. Continue reading
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GSEC Gold Paper Available
My GSEC Gold Paper on oneSIS and Git is now available. It was a great experience writing my first solo whitepaper. Here is the abstract: From desktops to servers to even the largest of supercomputers managing a constantly evolving diskless computing environment is usually quite challenging. Not only does the requirements for machines change over… Continue reading
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SANS Critical Control 19 (Secure Network Engineering) and 40GbE
A requirement of the SANS Technical Institute Masters of Science in Information Security Engineering (MSISE) is a Joint Written Project (JWP) with fellow students. Michael, George and I wrote our whitepaper on deploying a 40 Gigabit Ethernet aligned with the SANS Critical Control 19 (Secure Network Engineering). The rest of our project documents can be… Continue reading
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Welcome!
Welcome to my blog! This is about my journey through the continual process of being a computer security student. As I have come to realize that we are all students for life because computers and the ways we connect computers will always change. The types of threats will probably always be the same, eg. Social… Continue reading
