Practical perspectives on cyber security, open source, home labs, and infrastructure — written from real-world experience.
DNS records are part of your business continuity stack. An automated Bash script that retrieves all Cloudflare zones, converts records to BIND format, creates timestamped backups, and runs daily via cron — keeping your DNS configuration versioned and recoverable.
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Getting ready for Splunk's Boss of the SOC ANZ 2020 — a blue-team capture-the-flag event that puts SIEM skills to the test in a realistic threat scenario.
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A walkthrough of running the Ubiquiti Network Controller on open source firewall hardware — combining the best of both worlds for a powerful home lab network setup.
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Those who know me well know I'm passionate about open source. How do you combine OSINT threat intelligence with an open source firewall running IDS/IPS? Building pfSense with live threat feeds to protect the family network.
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