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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • I mean you can also work for your local hospital system, too, but sure those are all options, though you may find getting hired by them to be a bit difficult at first because your resume won’t have tons of experience on it yet.

    Keeping data secure, especially in the medical field overall, is paramount, so the IT-medical field does have a certain level of job security to it but I’d personally find it boring. I get why it’s appealing on the surface however I’d recommended the MSP (managed service provider) space as a good career starting point because you’d get exposed to a fairly wide variety of industries and my logic was that you’d refine what you like about INFOSEC in the first year or 2 of working at the MSP while serving a wider audience’s security needs and once you know what sub-specialty you’re really into then go chase the bigger companies with a bit of experience “on paper”.

    That’s just my $.02. :)


  • I’d recommend finding a junior security role at a Cloud-focused MSP to gain exposure and skills required at the larger firms.

    Having the degree isn’t everything but it shows you’re motivated towards mastering the topic. We can teach you, you just gotta show up and want to do the job. There are plenty of non-scummy companies out there you can work for that’ll be a great resume builder, you just need to invest the effort into finding out which companies didn’t scrap the DEI rules and apply there ha.





  • I have 4 old hard drives that I pulled from an old Drobo that needs to be trashed. I bought a Mediasonic 4-bay RAID enclosure that I thought would be a good upgrade, but knew going into that the drives may not work because the manual for the new enclosure specifically says to use new drives to avoid problems. The exact product is this Mediasonic one.

    While this would work isn’t it a bit time consuming compared to:

    wipefs --all /dev/sdX
    


  • It’s an old school log aggragating service that used to be how most *nix distros collected logs in years past. As I understand it was generally replaced by systemd’s journald service. The only times I encounter it in the wild is on legacy systems that couldn’t or refused to adapt and chances are they’re paying a lot cuz it’ll be a painful support experience. Oh and for some it can be a useful way to sync logs up to monitoring services like Splunk but it’s effectiveness is debatable.





  • Yeah, I’ve worked in data centers a fair amount in my day and I can’t believe they allowed Musk to do any of that to begin with. Every data center experience I’ve ever had was met with a thousand rules that were meant to keep the customer safe and I cannot believe they were authorized to do this in any fashion.

    It’s not about whether they owned the equipment or not, it’s about the fact that they violated policies and procedures that were put in place to safeguard other clients and the privacy of their data. Total bullshit if you ask me and I’d be suing the data center afterwards if I was one of their primary clients for the breach of trust.