Category: Security
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Still working on a practice test for the CompTIA CySA+ exam. Starting to score pretty good on them so I should be ready for my test toward the end of this month. Just going to keep plugging away at them.
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I have been working more with my VMware virtual machines. I managed to get Security Onion installed and let it run for a few days to see if would produce any types of alerts from its default settings. It has a web-based dashboard so been messing around with it. It…
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I am almost through reading the CYSA+ book. As most of it was covered under the Security+ exam I passed a few months ago I have decided to go ahead and schedule my CYSA+ test for the end of next month. So mostly just practice tests from here on out.
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Looking at one of the Cyberwox YT videos he mentioned a site that he had used in his training called Let’s Defend. It seems to be another security-based site for blue team learning. They have a free section that I plan on checking out. The more knowledge the better.
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Reading through the CySA+ book I ordered. It is more centered around the work of a cybersecurity analyst than the broader that the Security+ exam covers. Started working on some practice tests as well.
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Going to try to get another cert by the end of this year so going to toss in on the CompTIA CySA+. I went ahead and ordered a study guide from Amazon for it so hopefully it will be a good one as Exam Cram doesn’t seem to have a…
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Continue the work on the home lab and look around for some SIEM products. Seems like there are quite a few out there like Splunk, CrowdStrike, and others. Seems like most of the big ones require company servers or really large fees for licensing. I did hear about one called…
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Working on a home lab! To try to help out with gaining more experience in the field I decide to try to build a home lab. Nothing really big right now but trying to start with some virtual machines so signed up for a trial version of VMWare and have…
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Been working through some more lessons on TryHackMe. I still like the format of the lesson that have as they work reading about the various security processes and pair them with virtual machines that allow you to practice what you are learning along with it. Some of the questions are…
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As I have been looking at how to gain more experience in the cybersecurity world I can see that the next cert after the CompTIA Security+ seems to be CompTIA CYSA+ which stands for Cybersecurity Analyst. It is a cert that is supposed to be good for those who have…