What is a disaster, anyway? According to our good friends at Merriam-Webster, a disaster is “a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction”. Ransomware certainly meets that definition. If bringing a company’s IT systems and business operations to a screeching halt doesn’t constitute great damage, loss, or destruction I don’t know what does. Ransomware is …
Earlier in my career there is one project that really stood out to me. It involved me, from the server team, working closely with the network team to try to get some new technologies up and running. It was something I was looking forward to because I had a networking background (but had ended up …
Lately, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work around ransomware recovery and incident response. Many of the NIST documents have been a great starting point, and I’ve come across some real gems during my research. Here is a list of documents I have found helpful or interesting, and a little bit about each of …
Recently, Cisco announced the brand new Cisco UCS X-Series. At a glance, the Cisco UCS X-Series is a huge departure from the traditional Cisco UCS systems we’re used to, or is it? While at a glance it does look radically different (the first thing that got me was vertical blades instead of horizontal), the truth …
I recently had the honor of being ransomware in the cloud, which was not totally unexpected. After all, one of my greatest complaints about the cloud (you can read more about why I hate the cloud here), is that people don’t design, architect, or secure it properly and my lab is no exception to that …
If there’s one thing I’m good for, it is the latest Internet sensation. I started paying with cryptocurrencies several years ago to play the CryptoKitties game, which was based on Ethereum. Let me tell you, those were some expensive digital cats, and I didn’t bother playing it for very long. This week, I started farming …