I set up Netbox recently at work to try and improve the abysmal documentation situation. I use an Ansible playbook to provision and set up the server, then copy a docker compose file and start the containers. So far I’m loving Netbox, I just wish my predecessors had documented things from the start.

Namecheap + the dynamic DNS client in pfSense. No issues sinve I set it up years ago.

Before that it was a cron job that updated through the google domains api.

Da Archive maybe? Most of my stuff has come from there.

I recently set up and started using MediaTracker for this purpose. It’s kind of barebones, but functional. Seems like its biggest difference with movary is that it also covers TV, ebooks, audiobooks, and games.

I have a little section for movies and books on my website and i’ve been working on a script to automatically pull those lists and reviews from MediaTrackers api each time I build my site.

Stay suspicious. As a security guy, i’d way rather respond to 1,000 false positive reports than have an employee that doesn’t think about it and just clicks.

It is a great step but it’s rare to have enough buy in from upper managent to enforce any real consequences for repeat offenders. I’ve seen good initial results from this kind of phishing testing, but the repeat offenders never seem to change their habits and your click rate quickly plateaus.

A little late, but here is what I usually do when a ticket like that comes in:

1. Check monitoring. It’s quick and easy to check so I’ll look before even asking any clarifying questions. If there is a real network problem at a site, 95% of the time its going to show up on our monitoring dashboard. Everything from ISP outages to device failures show up here.
2. Ask for more details about what they are trying to do. What is the goal? What are you doing? What is happening? What should be happening? When was the last time it worked?
3. Based on those details, I can usually put together a good guess as to what might be going on, so i’ll test that theory out and see if i’m right.

Thanks! This is actually exactly what I have been basing my efforts on so far, it’s just sobering to look at how far away we are from completing implementation group 1.

I just started my first official cybersecurity position at a medium size company in an industry that is currently being heavily targeted with ransomware.

I’m starting pretty much from scratch as they have not had a dedicated security role in over a year and my predecessor didn’t make much progress. So far i’ve been focused on inventory lists, policies, and procedures for hardware, software, and data. I think we’re doing okay with minimizing stuff thats internet facing and patching is in a good place (well, at least with the devices and os’s that are still supported).

Any suggestions on where to go from there or what to prioritize?

I’m studying for CCSP right now. It’s fairly general and tries to be vendor neutral but Architecture is one of the knowledge domains on the exam. Might be worth it if you meet the work requirements or experience waiver requirements.

A lot of people also seem to conflate it with the CISSP when it comes up in conversation I’ve noticed.

I swear by ddrescue. It’s a situation I strive to never be but i’ve been there before. I used it once to rescue an employees masters capstone project from their dead work laptop.

Oh MediaTracker looks nice, thanks!

Do note though that for privacy purposes, a .us domain is not the best idea. You must be a U.S. citizen or business and registrars may try to verify your identity.

Really depends on your scale and needs, but when we were in the process of transitioning from Ivanti to Intune we had a gap between them. I set up a FOG project server and a couple remote nodes and that worked really well as an interim solution. I actually started using it at home even though I don’t really need imaging too often.

Can I ask why chocolatey and not just installed via policy/company portal? I’m not our Intune guy so I don’t know much about the limitations.

I did it in my down time at work in a few days on an early 2010ish thinkpad.

I bought an OnlyKey a few months ago and love it.

Hey, I have a career question this week! I’ve been a sysadmin for the last 1.5 years (It’s a small shop so everything security related is currently my responsibility). I’ll soon be graduating with a BS in Cybersecurity & Information Assurance. I’m SSCP, CySA+, and PenTest+ certified. I want to end up in a penetration testing role. Once I graduate, should I start looking for pen testing gigs immediately or do you think I ought to get some experience directly in the security industry first? Would getting OSCP help my chances of moving directly to pen testing?

I disagree, i’ve found pretty adequate for my needs. I agree the UI isn’t great, it reminds me of how Blender used to be, but I use it for all my parametric modelling for 3d printing stuff around the house. Fusion 360 is a better experience overall but to say FreeCAD is garbage seems extreme. If you need hobbyist software and care about your freedoms at all it’s worth the slight inconvenience to use FreeCAD instead.

Lots of searching