Monitoring Windows Host-based firewall Host-based firewalls are a great way to monitor any strange connections that might be sourcing from your system, or if there’s any unexpected internal connections within… [Continue Reading]
Copy and save the below script as MaintainService.ps1 Open Powershell and navigate to the path where the script is saved Simply type part of the script name and then press… [Continue Reading]
Copy and save the below script as CheckMyService.ps1 Open Powershell and navigate to the path where the script is saved Simply type part of the script name and then press… [Continue Reading]
Troubleshooting Logstash Logstash is our log parser and shipper that gets logs and writes them to the elasticsearch database which creates a daily or weekly index depending on your configuration…. [Continue Reading]
How to Troubleshoot elasticsearch You might find yourself attempting to view Elasticsearch logs through Kibana and realize that you have not been receiving logs for quite some time. Unfortunately, elasticsaerch… [Continue Reading]
Scenario: You login to Kibana and notice there’s no new logs within the past 15 minutes, the last time you received a log was 18 hours ago. You then run… [Continue Reading]
Patch management should be on top of your top priorities as a Sysadmin and as a Security Analyst you should also be on top of the latest patches released by… [Continue Reading]
If you’ve been in the Security field for some time now, you may have realized the importance of obtaining certain certifications. Whether you’re more hands and want to be on… [Continue Reading]
The MySQL command line packaged with maria-db is quite useful. You can use it to directly execute a saved sql script, query the database directly with a single command and… [Continue Reading]
I started dabbling with maria-db for a project at work which has inspired me to create this article; this will be a series of quick and to-the-point documents regarding the… [Continue Reading]