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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…
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Two-factor authentication – just do it already!
During a recent conversation, I was asked to briefly describe what two-factor authentication is, while keeping the technical bits at a minimum. In the age of everything web, most of us have heard of two-factor authentication. Commonly referred to as 2FA or MFA, it simply is the composition of two secrets, one static and the…
