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My first foray into pen-testing

2015-09-30 18:23:00

A few days ago, my buddies at IT Gilde were issued a challenge by the PvIB (Platform voor Informatie Beveiliging), a dutch platform for IT security professionals. On October 6th, PvIB is holding their annual pen-testing event and they asked us to join in the fun. I've never partaken in anything of the sorts and feel that, as long as I keep calling myself "Unix and Security consultant", I really ought to at least get introduced to the basics of the subject :)

So here we go! I'm very much looking forward to an evening full of challenges! 

The PvIB folks warn to not have any sensitive or personal materials on the equipment you'll use during the event, so I went with Mark Janssen's recommendation and bought a cheap Lenovo S21e-20 notebook. I'll probably upgrade that thing to Windows 10 and load it up with a wad of useful tools :)


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Some hard work that I need to pull through!

2015-09-30 17:51:00

Aside from my day to day activities in the fields of Unix/Linux and security, I want to ensure that I keep up with relevant and useful skills. I believe that expanding my horizons and keeping up with tech outside of my usual activities is a very useful activity. As the proverbial "big stick" I challenged myself to achieve two professional certifications this year:

  1. Oracle Certified Associate, for Oracle 11. Many of my activities so far have touched on databases, but my current project's the first time that I've had to actually dive into them. I would like to actually know something about the stuff I'm working with, hence I'd like to achieve at least a basic set of Oracle DBA skills. 
  2. Puppet Professional. Puppet's one of the more recent techs that I feel has a huge future. As the saying goes "I want me some of that!". While I have no current need for Puppet, I am keen to soon get started on a Puppet job!

Of course, the year isn't very long anymore, so I'd better get cracking!


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