I’m very excited to announce that Paladin Security is now offering penetration testing as part of our services! For the last 5 years I have been working full time as a penetration tester and consultant at Secure Ideas. Being a part of this incredibly talented team was exciting and a bit humbling at times. However, it was time for a … Read More
Desktop Blog Editors
I’ve been grumbling to myself about writing blog posts using the web interface in WordPress for quite some time, but I’ve never really done much about it. Today I spent some time chatting with David Pratt, a colleague of mine, about our blogs. David runs the Data Management Wonk blog and I liked how his blog posts look when they … Read More
The Importance of Backups and the SMB
Today we had a really bad thing that happened, but it ended up not mattering at all. One of my clients was busy doing some work and accidentally deleted a directory with about 1 GB of data in it. I got a very worried email from them and if it could be restored. Fortunately, we had recently implemented a new … Read More
Speaking at the 2009 Utah Open Source Conference
Last month I sent the Utah Open Source Conference a proposal for a presentation on “Building an Open Source Security Tool Set“. Presentations are voted on by the registered attendees and the other folks who have submitted a presentation. When I was making my votes, I saw that there were a lot of great abstracts. In fact, there were a … Read More
New look for the web site!
Tonight the new look for the website went live! Major thanks to Denise Smith for her work on the graphics. Everything she’s done for the business has come out great looking. I’m really excited to have this done. I hope you all enjoy it as well.
Signing SSL Certificate Requests
A while back I wrote a post on how to create a Certificate Authority on Linux, import the CA certificate into Active Directory and use it as an internal CA for your organization. Then I went silent for a while on the subject. Here is the follow up on how to sign SSL certs. We are going to be generating … Read More
FreeBSD 7.0 Build
Introduction This document contains basic instructions on building a system using FreeBSD 7.0. This covers security standards, configuration options, networking configuration, etc. The information used in this example probably doesn’t match your environment or hardware exactly. Verify your network, hardware and other internal system build standards before using the information contained here. Use this document at your own risk. This … Read More
FreeBSD 6.3 Build
Introduction This document contains basic instructions on building a system using FreeBSD 6.3. This covers security standards, configuration options, networking configuration, etc. The information used in this example probably doesn’t match your environment or hardware exactly. Verify your network, hardware and other internal system build standards before using the information contained here. Use this document at your own risk. This … Read More