1-Man IT Department

Back with a Vengeance!

Well, not really a vengeance because I am not really mad at anything. I have decided to try to kick start my blogging career on both my tech blog (what you are reading) as well as my productivity blog. I am starting here, with 1-ManIT, because there have been a lot more changes in my life in this area then any other. I will hit some of the highlights now with more meaningful posts in the following days.

Farewell to a great podcast

I am a bit sad this week as I learned my favorite IT podcast has recorded its last episode. In the Trenches was the first IT podcast that I found back in the summer of 2006 and it quickly became my favorite, while opening me up to other great podcasts including Casting from the Server Room and all of the Friends in Tech (FiT) podcasts and websites.

I was able to strike up a relationship with one of the hosts, Kevin Devin, as we had a number of things in common personally and professionally. He is not in IT anymore (he has moved to User Education), but he is still a geek at heart. Now he redirects his geekiness to his photography. He has some amazing shot, including this one that is my favorite. We are both baseball nerds (he loves the Mariners and I am a Braves fan).

SANS Training Updates not forgotten

I have not forgotten to finish the SANS Security Essentials recaps. I was preoccupied the nights of the 4th thru 6th days of the training. I will fill this in, hopefully this weekend so that the whole series is complete.

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Security Bootcamp - Day 3

Well, what can I say about today. At the end of it, we will be halfway through our course books. Today was a lot of fun for me. We talked about a lot of stuff that I did not know anything about. So let’s just jump into it.

Day 3 - Internet Security Technologies

Security Essentials - Day 2 Defense-In-Depth

Well, another day, another 500+ book to go through in Security Training.

Today was Defense-In-Depth day at Security Essentials Bootcamp. I really enjoyed today a lot. We finished the fundamental stuff yesterday and started hitting the ground cracking (literally).

We started with a discussion of what Defense-In-Depth entailed. We hit on multiple layers of protection, the CIA Triad, risk management and the differences between threat and vulnerabilities. Then we began a rather lengthy talk about the differences between viruses, worms and trojans, and hit on some of the big hitters from years past…Melissa, Sasser, Slammer…ahhh, the good ole days. After a brief overview of malware and it effects, we moved on to the next section.