Asset Inventories
I.T organizations are responsible for many types of assets. This includes servers, both physical and virtual, network devices, storage infrastructure, or security devices such as firewalls or intrusion prevention. An…
Vulnerability Management 101
Software updates are just a part of normal life. When installing your next set of updates, it will contain multiple security patches, which are needed to help keep the system…
Security Department Internals
This article summarizes what a security department does inside an organization.
Getting that first job
When beginning a learning path you will most likely need to work as well. It is certainly possible to do both at the same time. Here are some suggested job titles/descriptions that tend to be great starter positions.
Goals
For many years, I have wanted to write a book on helping people with technical subjects. I still have handwritten pages across multiple notebooks containing the beginnings of would-be chapters.…
Resume
I am a very high-performing individual that is always learning, always influencing and embracing change, and enjoying working with people and technology to improve daily life. Every technical decision I…
Learning Platform Alt First Task
As mentioned in the previous article, one of the first things that will allow you to start learning quickly is to start by understanding how to install a commonly used…
Learning Platform First Tasks
This is a continuation of the previous article Arguably the first thing you can do, to begin learning right away, is to install an operating system. This is going to…
Finding a learning platform
In the last article, I gave some background on my involvement in computers, before getting any formal training. As mentioned, it started with our family computer that I loaded and…
Reflections on my career path – Part 2
In this post, I talk about my exposure to computers as a kid and how that helped shaped what I wanted to do in the future after my course correction.