I’ve been having fun digging into Azure and Microsoft 365 from a security standpoint. Specifically, learning and exploring all of the tools and options they have when it comes to IAM, information protection, compliance, etc. Again, for me, maybe because of my Windows background, I really just dig what they are doing with Azure and […]
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What I Learned After Installing DetectionLab on Azure and VMWare Workstation
Need a way to throw yourself off of the deep end and dive into Ansible, Terraform, Vagrant, Powershell, Python, and Packer, all while setting up a lab full of security exploration, monitoring, and exploitation tools? Good, you should check out DetectionLab! I’ve been configuring my own labs for years, the manual way. That means downloading […]
False Positive Triggers in IDS vs Biometric Systems
I don’t know about you, but when I think of the term “false positive” I think of something that triggered an alert, but isn’t really a threat or compromise of the system being monitored. This usually applies in IDS, IPS, anti-virus, anti-malware, etc. This is what is referred to by some as a benign trigger, […]
Got Security Onion Working in VMWare!
You may remember me posting recently about having issues installing Security Onion in VMWare. If not, the basic story is that I got it installed but was having issues accessing the web interface from other virtual machines in my lab. I tried NAT, Bridged, and various custom VMnets. After all of that I just took […]