For this post, I will provide you with my recommended path, in terms of what materials to read and how to practice for the exam. I took the CCSP because… [Continue Reading]
I’ve been migrating several FTP jobs from batch scripts into PowerShell by leveraging PSFTP – below is a quick guide on how you can do the same. First, you need… [Continue Reading]
The following is a step-by-step approach to setup Nexpose Data Warehouse to export to a Windows PostGres Database setup and allow Splunk to import it. The current Rapid 7 Splunk… [Continue Reading]
I had the opportunity to write a Thesis for my Security Masters Program at the University of Houston (Program Website here for those interested). It was a long, but fun experience… [Continue Reading]
Here is a quick and convenient way to check for installed versions of .NET on your system(s): Get-ChildItem ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP’ -Recurse | Get-ItemProperty -Name Version, Release -ErrorAction 0 |… [Continue Reading]
Quest KACE K1000 (Former Dell Product), allows you to create “customized” inventory rules that provide flexibility to run commands, whether through standard command prompt, or other methods. For this particular… [Continue Reading]
If you get a chance you may briefly look at old articles related to this topic as I will be briefly referencing them or quickly summarizing portions of my configuration…. [Continue Reading]
Whether your environment was compromised and someone got a hold of your Domain Admin account, or you’re just ensuring that domain admins are logging in to expected systems. It is… [Continue Reading]
This script was designed to inventory the running services in your infrastructure. It requires a c:\temp\servers.txt file to be created and populated with server names; it will then query the… [Continue Reading]
This is a simple script that will query the Windows Services for the status of the required IIS services (IISADMIN, WAS, W3SVC) and also output the status of your IIS… [Continue Reading]