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**SECTION 9 Cyber Security**

Just two people trying to do IT and Security the right way.

Latest Episodes:

We’ve Learned a Lot in 200 Episodes May 31, 2021

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This is episode 200. We’ve come a long way in 200 episodes.

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1. Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager

2. Shared Calendar - Teams, Sharepoint and Calendar

3. Planner - Teams, Sharepoint and Planner

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Emergency Patching and The CIS Controls - 199 May 24, 2021

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We’ve been busy. We figured out how to push an emergency patch. Then version 8 of the CIS Critical Security Controls was released. Simplified and reorganized. We’re slowly working our way through the list. Lots to do.

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1. Automox - Our patch management tool

2. CIS Controls Version 8

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VMware Server: Running Out of Drive Space - 198 May 19, 2021

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I did a lot of work to get our VMware server environment configured. Turns out we’re running out of drive space.

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1. Our VMware Server - mitxpc.com

2. Grafana dashboard for monitoring vCenter

3. Storage requirements for vCenter

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VMware Server: New Drives Installed - 197 May 03, 2021

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Our VMware server is back online with new NVME drives. This project was more work than we had planned for. Still, typical for an IT project. They never go the way you expect them to.

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Bloodhound: Round 1 - 196 Apr 26, 2021

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I wanted to “Release the hounds” with bloodhound. I managed to get it working. That’s about all I can say. It was way more work than I thought it would be.

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1. Attacking Active Directory - Bloodhound - This guy knows bloodhound

2. BadBlood - Generate random users and groups in AD

3. Kali Linux - Incase you need it

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Labs, Visio, Project Management - 195 Apr 19, 2021

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Our VMware server is offline. We’re missing a part we need to install the drives. While we track that down, we need something to do. Planning labs, learning Visio, and project management are on the todo list.

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1. Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager

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Active Directory Security Audit - 194 Apr 12, 2021

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Time to do a security test of Active Directory. Going to be using Bloodhound, Plumhound, mimikats and Ping Kastle. Never used them before. First time for everything.

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1. Bloodhound

2. Plumhound

3. Mimikatz

4. PingCastle

5. BadBlood

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Our VMware Server is Awesome - 193 Apr 05, 2021

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Running into some issues with our VMware ESXi server. The not so good news, we don’t have enough drive space. The good news, we can fix that. The really good news, we have way more CPU power than I thought.

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1. Our VMware Server: Supermicro SYS-E300-9D-8CN8TP

2. Alternative VMware Server: Supermicro AS-E301-9D-8CN4

3. SUPERMICRO DUAL NVME M.2 PCI-E 3.0

4. SUPERMICRO 1U PCIE X8 RISER CARD (RSC-RR1U-E8)

5. SUPERMICRO DUAL NVME M.2 PCI-3.0 - Amazon

6. Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Pluss SSD 1TB

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Our Tools - 192 Mar 29, 2021

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We just put up a tools section on our website. It’s a list of tools we use and some we would like to use. Most are security tools. Things you wouldn’t see outside of security.

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1. Tools

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Windows Hello: Locked Out - 191 Mar 15, 2021

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Looks like we need to learn more about Windows Hello. Dorothy got locked out of her laptop. Couldn’t reset her Windows Hello pin.

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1. Microsoft Doc: PIN reset - Didn’t work for me.

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