Predicting the Future using Physics Normally, I write about IT, computer science and computing in general. A few days ago, however, a theory came to me that I feel inclined to share with the community. A bit of a disclaimer before we continue: I am in no way an astrophysicist…

Why you SHOULD Put Work Resources On Your Personal Phone — There are a lot of articles out there telling bring your own device (BYOD) users to remove anything work related from their personal devices. Not only are these articles being written by non-technological, privacy centered individuals, but often the advice provided by them is inaccurate. I’m here to separate myth…

So far in my IT career, I have worked in or done work for several chemical plants and factory locations. These locations all had very different operations, procedures, culture, and people. However, the one thing that was the same throughout all of these locations was the security culture and technology…

This article was something that I wrote back in school while taking a cybersecurity class. It describes an attack where a threat actor (a gray hat) gains access to a Windows IIS server and steals a file. I have done this attack many times during my work as a penetration…

While I have dealt with many network nightmare scenarios, ranging from simple switch port errors that cascaded throughout a stack, failed power systems causing widespread outages, and even some disaster recovery / business continuity scenarios, the network nightmare I will talk about here is one of the longest lasting and…

If you work with or have worked with, Kubernetes, chances are you have come across some of the issues described here. It happens to the best of us: you come into the office on a Monday, your NMS is all in the red, your Kubernetes cluster nodes are dead and…

When I first dove into Kubernetes back in early 2018, I wondered why anyone would use such a complex (and expensive) service when there are many other ways to host applications such as Vmware products an Hyper-V. A short while ago, I was asked to develop a highly available setup…