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Uptime…
Remember the days when server up-time was how we measured service availability and bragged about it? This Pi-hole DNS server running on a Debian-loaded mini PC at my home office, is now at 177 days since last reboot, yet is fully patched and running latest version of Pi-hole DNS. Maybe it’s because there are no…
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Pipelines…
About 12 years ago, we used a piece of software called Hudson to automate various tasks that were otherwise run by hand. Things like running backup jobs, initiating web server warm-ups, checking on stale DNS records, sending emails reports, executing shell scripts on remote servers, updating firewall rules during peak times of day (think home…
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A Security+ Nostalgia
Going through modern Security+ material, seeing mentions of legacy technologies and methodologies such as Sub7 or War-driving was a pleasant time travel 🙂
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Automate all the things?
Look… we get it; it’s easy to get carried away with the “let’s automate this, let’s automate that, let’s automate everything!” enthusiasm. Before you go ahead and commit your team to a ton of automation work spanning the foreseeable sprints, it is best to have a sit down with your leads and establish an outline…
