A place for all your stuff. When your stuff is Logs, Events and Netflow – Oh My. I leaned about Gravwell from the podcast Security Weekly and the explanation and thoughtfulness of “storing all your stuff” really resonated with me. Gravwell offers a “Community Edition” which allows for 2GB per day to ingest of your […]
Category: Network
Gravwell – Windows Event Logs
Windows Event Logs The Windows OS is generating and capturing a number of internal (Windows Apps, services) and external or third party Events. The Windows Event logs are incredibly useful when dealing with end-points and devices for troubleshooting actual problems and alerting to other details or issues that might impact your service and up-time needs. […]
Home Lab Network Separation Planning
Gotta Keep ’em Separated As the proliferation of devices that connect to your home network continues to grow. We need a better set of controls of what these devices can do once on your network. Especially taking into consideration the recent RansomeWare and BotNet like take overs that can really break your heart if it […]
Secure DNS Traffic – Learning From Scott Helme
Your web traffic consists of protocols and the ports they travel over the network and some are encrypted and some are not. The “Are Not” part is the important situation I have been investigating. When you open a web browser there are a number of different ways to connect to a site through a browser […]
Blossom Sprinkler Controller
Blossom The WiFi Sprinkler Controller While relocating the existing older sprinkler controller it was identified that it was not wired properly to an AC outlet. This resulted in enough sparks to make me run for cover and I decided a replacement of this old controller was a great idea. The Blossom is at the best affordability […]
PiHole – Stopping Advertisements
“A Black Hole For Internet Advertisements” Small inexpensive devices like RaspberryPi 3 and others have become great platforms to build little micro-servers with. The developer group at PiHole have built a framework which uses blacklisting to identify servers on the internet that are used for distributing Advertisements. The framework works by causing the servers to be blocked […]
FINGBOX – Network Monitoring
Home Network Monitoring The average household computer network has become a very active environment of connectivity for a multitude of devices. Devices by different manufacturers and bluntly of different levels of quality, control, and security are all factors now that not many home users are thinking of. Set-Up, Connections, and iOS App The FINGBOX is a […]