H4X0R J0Y

One of the best things about security and hacking conventions is the people you meet and the spontaneous conversations that spark creative ideas. While attending BSidesLV, I struck up a conversation with a few folks about laptops and our favorite Linux distros. It was classic hallway-con talk—nerdy, passionate, and totally unplanned. During our chat, my … Read more

BSidesLV and Multi-Cloud Security

I attended a two-day multi-cloud red teaming course at BSidesLV. The folks over at labs.cyberwarfare.live were conducting the training session and below are my own thoughts: Intro to Multi-Cloud Red Teaming Analyse and investigate various Web, Network, Host And Active Directory based attacks by various defensive solutions. Hunt Cyber Threats in a realistic enterprise environment. … Read more

Mid 2021 check-in – Part 2

In my last post I shared my journey of being VMware Certified. I had checked off a bucket list item and wanted to continue the while I had the momentum. Another certification I always had my eyes on was CompTIA’s Security + certification. While it is regarded as an entry level certification, it does open … Read more

Mid 2021 check-in – Part 1

My Journey to being VMware Certified Hello again. Its been a while since I’ve logged in and did any sort of updates on this site. Plenty has happened in the past 11 months. Somewhere in that time life happened and had put my DevNet studying aside to focus on my health, family and other non-IT … Read more

Update & Certifications

I hope that everyone is safe and healthy during this COVID-19 pandemic. Just wanted to share that I’ve finally obtained the following certifications: CCNA Routing and Switching (Finally) AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certified I’ve also been spending time learning: Python Ansible Cisco ACI Docker K8s CCNA Routing and Switching I had first tried doing the … Read more

VMworld 2014

I had the opportunity to attend my first ever conference: VMworld in San Francisco. I am really grateful that I was able to see what other companies are doing with VMware technology, sitting through demos and grabbing a lot of freebies! Now that VMworld is over, its time to stop slacking off and start my … Read more