Posts made by EddieJennings

I might have read the tone of your post wrong, but I feel compelled to share my philosophy on certs.

"Chase the skill, not the cert."

Take some time and effort to think through some goals ("Cybersec world" is quite large). Afterward, think through the skills you need achieve the goals. Lastly, determine how to develop the skills. That step is what leads you to find a cert that can provide a curriculum for learning what's necessary to develop the skills.

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So now I have made up my mind to pursue both CISSP and CCSP. I read that CCSP is a nice compliment to CISSP even though most of CCSP information overlaps with some of CISSP.

If you haven't done so already, be able to describe what specifically you hope to learn from going through those certs, and how it helps you achieve the $goal. If you can already describe this, great! If not, you might save yourself some time and money by taking a step back and thinking stuff through, which it sounds like you did with the Fortinet certs.

The quality and effectiveness of meetings varies greatly. For my environment, calls where we're brainstorming a problem or hashing out some details of how $the_thing should be approached tend to be the most effective. These meetings tend to be rare and usually result from trying to work on a problem over chat where it's determined voice and visual aids are going to be more effective for communication.

In my experience, majority of meetings are unfocused, which leads to everyone's time being wasted, or are meetings for announcements only without any need (or intention) for real-time collaboration -- the meeting that could've been an E-mail.

I've never dealt with Datapower, but I suspect there's a configuration file related to datapower-control that may need some editing.

EX362 = passed yesterday. Starting now on preparing for EX342, the last on the journey to RHCA.

@scottalanmiller Ha! Yeah. . .

Reading about trusts between Red Hat Identity Management and Active Directory.

Practicing installation of Red Hat Identity Manager.

Catching up on some Flock to Fedora sessions.

Digging into kerberos.

@Obsolesce Looks like a spiral fracture. That's no joke. Try to stay ahead of the pain while you recover.

Red Hat EX467 = pass. On to the next, EX362

Red Hat EX467 exam prep

It's clear a non-trivial amount of effort went into making that. Opening and closing reminded me of some Karlheinz Stockhausen music I heard during undergrad.

Practicing Ansible Automation Platform installation scenarios.

@CCWTech A friend of mine posted on Facebook asking everyone about an issue her son is having with connecting to his school's portal to do summer school work while he's abroad. The issue she described sounded like textbook network geoblocking.

Finally making time to work on some videos.

Red Hat Exam EX374 review. Test is in three weeks.

Reading about Ansible execution environments

@dbeato I do not touch our Qualys instance as often as I probably should, but the team members that do touch it often generally complain about remediated vulnerabilities still being detected. However, I really the think the problem lies with how queries are built for the dashboards (done by another team).

I can say Ansible-izing the installation of the agent for Linux servers was a bit of a challenge (I can take a look back at the playbook tasks on Monday to see what I had to do).

Just say "no" to Qualys.