Cisco recently patched two critical vulnerabilities in their firewall products, discovered after probable nation-state actors targeted them in a campaign dubbed “Arcane Door”. These zero-day vulnerabilities, found in devices running ASA and FTD software, were exploited to implant malware and
Securing Local Administrator Passwords
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining a robust security posture is imperative for businesses and organizations of all sizes. One essential aspect of this security posture is effective password management, which can often be overlooked. A question I ask
Mastering Maintenance Mode Operations in Nutanix: A Guide for AHV and ESXi: Part 2
Welcome back to my series on maintenance operations with Nutanix! In Part 1, I reviewed some scenarios on using maintenance mode with Nutanix AHV, using both Maintenance Mode functions within Prism Element and the CLI. As a quick recap from
Mastering Maintenance Mode Operations in Nutanix: A Guide for AHV and ESXi
As with years past, as we come to a close on year’s end, I take some time to clean up the As-Built documentation templates I maintain for deployments; as part of this activity, I always come across outdated sections based
New Blog, New Thought Process
It took me a while, but I finally migrated the blog from my original hosted Ghost platform to a new one, which hopefully will give me a good burst of energy to update some content! I decided to move away
Football to .Next
As we wrap up the Super Bowl and realize that football (both College and Pro’s) is over (I can’t get on board with the USFL just yet), it’s time to look to something else! I just wrapped a great week
Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023!
Just a quick post, but 2022 has been a great year on many fronts! As we move faster to the end of the year, I always like to reflect back on what was achieved. Getting to spend this week with
FMCv 7.2 Upgrade on AHV
Posting this more as a note to myself as a reminder and to also read the release notes a bit more carefully! After recently going thru an upgrade of the Firepower Management Center from 7.0.x to 7.2 FMCv, specifically on
Mastery in 2022
Well, it’s been exactly a year since the last blog post to this site. Oh, and it’s also taken me a full year to migrate the blog from a self-hosted WordPress site hosted by Amazon Lightsail, over to Ghost.
Saved by Pure Storage
This past weekend, I got to experience with another customer an unexpected intrusion, one of the worst I’ve honestly experienced in my years. Once I was onsite and got to see the level of sophistication on this attack, I realized