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Slides from Diskless Cluster Computing presentation
Powerpoint Slides from my presentation at SANS Network Security in Las Vegas last September. My thanks to the great attendees who made the presentation a lot of fun. 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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Sans Management 433: Securing The Human: Building and Deploying an Effective Security Awareness Program
One of the newer requisite courses for the MSISE degree is how to deploy an effective security awareness program. I am guessing that I am one of the first STI students to complete the course as the grading rubics were changed a few times based upon questions or problems that I encountered. It is a… 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 SEC503 – Intrusion Detection
Just finished taking Securing the Human (MGT433) and Intrusion Detection in Depth (SEC503) courses at SANS 2012. What great classes! Just finishing up the GSEC Gold Paper which I should be able to put up in a few weeks. Next on the list is to start studying for the GIAC GCIA cert. 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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GCIH Silver
Passed the GCIH Silver exam yesterday. Yea! Continue reading
