Roger's Information Security Blog
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Roger's Information Security Blog is my online home for my thoughts on InfoSec news and my experiences as a corporate IT Security pro. I would recommend, evaluate, select and implement security solutions. This included things like PKI, Desktop Encryption, EFS, Desktop Endpoint Protection, DLP, IDS, Firewall, vulnerability scanning, patch management, FISMA, and NAC.
Roger's Information Security Blog
2y ago
https://log4jmemes.com/ made me laugh, so I made my own meme.
not particularly clever, probably many others have used the same template. But hadn’t seen any at the time i made this one.
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Roger's Information Security Blog
3y ago
With some downtime over the holidays, I was checking in to see if my ISP has added IPv6 support yet. But sadly nothing had changed in months. So just for fun, I reset up a 6 in 4 tunnel to Hurricane Electric from my router.
Sending traffic in a tunnel to HE rather than directly to its destination isn’t exactly going to speed things up. I’ve also heard of issues with Netflix where they decide you’re using a proxy to evade their geolocation restrictions. I didn’t run into that issue with Netflix, checking the Netflix access logs, I only saw a connection from my IPv4 address. But I did find that ..read more
Roger's Information Security Blog
3y ago
ISC2’s blog has an feature where they interview CISSPs from around the world, and I see this month they interview Javvad Malik.
Its a nice interview, but nothing compared to his original piece on the benefits of being a CISSP.
Watch this video on YouTube.
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Roger's Information Security Blog
5y ago
Shoshin is a word from Zen Buddhism meaning “beginner’s mind.” It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and a lack of preconceptions when studying a subject, even when studying at an advanced level.
As IT people we aren’t always known for our attitude of openness, eagerness and lack of preconceptions. Its an easy field to get burnt out. And because of the ever increasing task list, everything is a task to finish in the most expedient way possible. Frequently this closes the door on finding new ways to do things, and listening to new ideas.
Thinking about shoshin as we ..read more