Folks,
This week, thousands of IT professionals, managers, CISOs and CIOs are in Orlando, attending, well, Microsoft Ignite 2018 !
Image Courtesy Microsoft. Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ignite
Now, according to Microsoft’s website…
Pardon the Absence, and Get Ready!
Folks,
Hello again. I trust this finds you all doing well. It has been a few weeks since I last blogged. I hope you’ll pardon my absence.
Yes I was supposed to answer a rather important question, in fact, possibly the world’s most important cyber sec…
Convergence is the Key to Future-Proofing Security
I published a new article today on the Oracle Security blog that looks at the benefits of convergence in the security space as the IT landscape grows more disparate and distributed.
Security professionals have too many overlapping products under manag…
Making your own Kali Linux Metapackages
One of the many useful things we can do with APT is create metapackages, which are effectively empty packages that declare a list of other packages as dependencies. Kali Linux includes metapackages for password cracking, software-defined radio, wireles…
Buying a New Home? Reasons to Have New Locks Installed Right Away
Have you recently purchased a new home? There’s no question that this is an exciting milestone in anyone’s life. However, before you begin a new life in your brand-new home, it’s smart to have all the exterior door locks replaced. You may wonder why th…
Docker repository for the WiKID Strong Authentication server
https://hub.docker.com/r/wikidsystems/wikid_enterprise/
We have created a Docker Hub repository for anyone looking to quickly setup our two-factor authentication server. This is still a work in progress, so please provide feedback!
WireGuard on Kali
We have been hearing a lot about WireGuard lately and with it being recently added to the Kali repos, we thought we would give it a quick try to see what all the fuss is about. All in all, we found this is a really nice and quick to configure VPN solut…
Defensive Security Podcast Episode 225
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa8emg/russian-indicted-jp-morgan-chase-hack
https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-releases-post-mortem-report-on-equifax-hack/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/phishing-alert-north-korean-hacking-attacks-s…
Domain Name Consolidation: Observations From the Field
The market and marketing of Web property domain names is changing. Companies prefer to promote top level domains (TLDs), have the option of selecting brand-relevant domain extensions (e.g. SaaS.com), and no longer need country-relevant domains to optim…
Akamai India’s StandTall Program
Diversity and Inclusion is a mission-critical goal at Akamai. In support of this goal, the India Learning and Development team in collaboration with the Women’s Forum India (employee resource group), launched an initiative that aims to foster a culture…