NIST CSF Core Notes
NIST Framework Components The Cybersecurity Framework consists of three main components: The Framework Core provides a set of desired cybersecurity activities and outcomes using common language that is easy to…
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (2019,2018,2017,2016,2015)
Research firm Gartner defines the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) market as one with offerings that “provide a collection of security capabilities to protect PCs, smartphones and tablets,” which it said…
Cyber Security Technology with NIST Cyber Security Framework
Layered Security & Defense In Depth A layered approach to security can be implemented at any level of a complete information security strategy. Whether you are the administrator of only…
Install and Use Webbench to Benchmark Web Servers
Web Bench is a very simple tool for benchmarking WWW or proxy servers. This benchmark is not very realistic, but it can test if your HTTPD can really handle so…
GitHub Basic Usage
GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface. It also…
Install Nginx, MariaDB, PHP (LEMP) and WordPress on CentOS 7
Create CentOS 7 VM & Update sudo -i yum update -y yum install epel-release yum-utils -y yum clean install Install Nginx yum install nginx -y service nginx start *browser to…
IBM Guardium v11 GIM & S-TAP Download, Install, Validation and Verification
GIM & S-Tap Download 1.) Download GIM to Assigned Database servers 1.) https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ 2.) Select the current/correct Fix Pack. This implementation is Guardium v11 GIM, S-TAP, GIM AIX & S-TAP…
IBM Guardium V11.0 Project Implementation Notes
Guardium Project Overview The project scope is to implement the IBM InfoSphere Guardium V11 VM appliances by utilizing the Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) to setup and monitor privileged user activities…
Easily Deploy ELK into CentOS 7
The Elastic Stack — formerly known as the ELK Stack — is a collection of open-source software produced by Elastic which allows you to search, analyze, and visualize logs generated…
Some Popular Linux VPS Bench Scripts
Cloud service providers often define host tiers by the allocated resources, but the differences in the underlying hardware, architecture and performance tuning can result in varying capabilities even between similar…
Create Free Tier Windows/Linux Virtual Machines in Azure Cloud
Azure free tier provides following free services for 12 months after one month for your free $200 credit: 750 hours B1S VM Windows Virtual machines 750 hours B1S VM Linux…