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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
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GSEC Silver
Passed my GSEC exam a few weeks ago. The next step is to complete a written paper within the confines of the wide subject area of computer security. 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
