Blog Posts
Welcome to my blog! Here you’ll find all my posts organized by year.
2025
- Blocking Zoom Webinar Spam with Microsoft 365 Mail Flow Rules
- Bad Scanner: A Tool for Simulating Poor Quality Document Scans
- SANS Timer
- Getting Started with YARA
- Ways That Human Intelligence is Different from AI
- File Organizer: A Python Utility for Efficient File Management
2020
2019
- Create an EC2 that Runs Chrome for Sandboxed Web Surfing
- The Equifax Data Breach and the Apache Struts Vulnerability
- Test Early, Test Often
- Check Multiple AWS S3 Buckets for Missing Default Encryption
2018
2017
2016
- FIPS 140-2 in a Nutshell
- The Trust-Value Equation
- The Encryption Magic Bullet
- Capture a spurious outbound connection with NETSTAT
- Modify a line in wtmp - Linux Accounting
- HTTPS: Is it Possible to Forge a Web Server Certificate?
- Are BitTorrent Pieces 250Kb Long?
- SOC 1 vs SOC 2
2015
- Questions to Ask Executive Management when Considering a New Job
- A Python Parser for BitTorrent Metainfo Files
- Bash Script Tests for OS and Run as Root
- How to Install TSHARK in Unattended Mode via Script
- Change config settings using a bash script
- CISSP vs CEH vs Security+
- The Contracting Life Cycle
- Define: PCI Service Provider
2014
2013
- Defense-in-depth, Part 2
- ZeroBin XSS Vulnerability Patched in 0.19
- ZeroBin as a XSS Attack Platform
- Defense in Depth
- Security Policy Exceptions
- Shannon Entropy of Various File Formats
- Calculate File Entropy
- Securely Delete Files with SDelete
- Why Have Security Policy?
- Goodbye Oz Data Centa
- The Difference Between Leaders & Non-Leaders
- Eight Traits for Vision
2012
- PowerShell Script to Log Network Connections
- Looking in Pastebin at the Hactivism Carnage
- CMM & Organizational Process Maturity
- Lessons Learned from the JFK Jet Skier Incident
- Zero Factor Authentication
- Be an Actor, Not a Reactor
- Success Has Many Fathers
- OPSEC is Really Not OPSEC
- Ironic OpSec
- How Hackers Get Passwords
- What does trust have to do with it?
- Are We More Secure Today?
- Security & Customer Trust
- The Sources of Influence Behind My Leadership Style
2011
- My Security Philosophy
- Management Paradigms
- Skype in the Enterprise
- Hire Yourself as a Consultant
- Is Server Downtime an Information Security Incident?
- Moments of Truth - Examining Your Organization's Customer Service
- Maxwell's Law of the Scoreboard
- Alligator Fighting
- Take Steps to Achieve Greatness
- Plan - Do - Check - Act
- A Quality Thought