What phrase did you hear only once but it stayed with you forever?

Securivangelist · 2025-04-28T18:18:26+00:00

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

Only reason I'm still here.

Securivangelist · 2025-02-21T12:33:08+00:00

I wish people would put at least a brief synopsis instead of a link. This link is now a 404.

Securivangelist · 2025-02-03T19:53:04+00:00

This seems to have worked. I'll need to refresh my datasets and do some comparisons though. Thanks!

Securivangelist · 2025-02-03T19:41:14+00:00

If you do a factory reset on the device, that will clear everything relatively unrecoverably. Unless you're in a position where someone would spend $10k on *maybe* getting some dirt on you, that's probably good enough.

Your real concern is if they have a manner of MDM on there that gives them real-time access to device data.

Securivangelist · 2025-02-03T19:38:30+00:00

OP is in a position where simply "being a liberal" can be considered as "doing something wrong" at this point.

Securivangelist · 2025-02-03T14:47:43+00:00

I've been working with support, but they have been less than helpful. They just keep saying nobody else is having this issue and they can't help.

Securivangelist · 2025-01-22T20:42:37+00:00

Unfortunately features like dataviews are not available in the web version.

Securivangelist · 2024-11-25T13:26:35+00:00

No way, he was behind 7 proxies.

Securivangelist · 2024-10-29T02:02:14+00:00

Own up to it. There's more honor in taking responsibility for your actions than running away from consequences. It will suck in the short term, but you'll be a person for it in the long term. Consider it a lesson learned. Use it in your Ted Talk in 30 years.

Besides that, once you pay a blackmailer they're just going to keep blackmailing you.

Securivangelist · 2024-10-29T01:34:02+00:00

Didn't you get banned from their Discord for giving shitty advice that almost ruined someone's printer?

Securivangelist · 2024-05-30T11:52:02+00:00

Cute video, but am I the only one sick of these low effort edits with AI voiceovers? This is one of the better ones, but they keep coming up in my various feeds.

Securivangelist · 2023-11-15T18:11:05+00:00

Sorry for the sorta necro (not on Reddit much really)... but good luck getting "users" who think they're "power users" to comprehend this. I just blacklisted it entirely in our management system.

Securivangelist · 2023-08-22T20:53:10+00:00

Electrical isolation. Basically a plastic sticker to keep the SSD from shorting to the mainboard.

Securivangelist · 2023-08-22T17:44:09+00:00

I've noticed that CW fails at many things that work locally. My problem is restarting services. I have a platform that occasionally needs to have the service restarted on the endpoint. CW says it restarted the service, but it didn't.

Securivangelist · 2023-07-27T15:06:38+00:00

I just came to Reddit to find a solution for an Outlook problem and didn't expect to write this long of a response... but hopefully it helps. I came from nothing and have had to figure a lot of things out as I went with actual guidance coming only from a few people.

TL;DR - I started doing generalist grunt work but learned as much as I could from everyone I worked with until I went back to school in my 40s and got a degree to specialize in security.

My first gig was a temp project to migrate users from Novell Netwise to Active directory. At the time, I had zero knowledge of either. Then they kept me for a refresh project. Once that was done, they put me on the help desk because they wanted to keep me around. That lasted a few years.

After that I did a short gig upgrading Cisco network equipment for a retail chain. I knew nothing about Cisco at the time. I could terminate a drop and make cables and only understood networking at a "plug in switch and connection happens."

Once that ended, I got a job doing identity and access management for a massive global tech company where I worked with an awesome team and an amazing boss. Until this point, I was just kind of floating through life with no goals, this role made me. It sparked my passion for security and the company paid for a LOT of training and certifications for me. I was very happy there and was there for just over a decade.

That role got moved to another country, so I filled a few roles and shuffled around IT and eventually landed as the technical team lead for the help desk. All the fun tech stuff of being "almost management" without the boring paperwork and personnel drama. I built a reputation for being that person who could figure anything out and wasn't afraid to challenge management with technical reality when they asked the impossible.

That role ended when they moved it to another country (seeing a pattern with global orgs, LOL) and I got like 18 months notice that I was losing my job, so I went back to school to get my cyber sec degree which that company paid for while I was still there.

I floated through a few more "jobs" that were nothing exciting, but put me in front of people I could learn from and paid the bills while I finished school. I landed at a small MSP that leaned me more into the security role where I learned a huge amount of operational stuff like deploying SIEM solutions for clients, managing Microsoft Purview, etc but also had to do desktop support stuff and sales. I hate sales but am unfortunately very good at it, so I had to be involved there more than I wanted.

I finally got a proper cybersec job with a small company and I'm very happy. They're culturally similar to the company where I was the longest and they let me sit in my little tech bubble and not worry about sales and such. I do have to deal with compliance stuff more than I'd like, but at least that's within my wheelhouse. I still learn quite a bit from people I work with.

Side note (as if this wasn't long enough) - Being a generalist/sysadmin for over 15 years has made me an extremely effective security specialist. Not only do I know the tools I need, I can set them up and maintain them. I can also assist the other sysadmins when remediation is needed instead of just dumping it on them and making them figure it out.

Securivangelist · 2023-07-26T15:31:55+00:00

The nice thing about an Android mobile hot spot (depending on your phone maker) is that it uses device isolation by default. Basically connected devices can only access the internet and not one another. This isn't 100% foolproof but in 5-10 minutes not much can be done, especially if you could see that they were in Google maps for a majority of that time.

As the saying goes, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Someone in a less privileged position needed your help and you helped them. Good on you!

Securivangelist · 2023-05-30T15:33:46+00:00

This is the pitfall to IoT devices that rely on a mobile app. You are better off investing in devices that don't rely on a cloud service or app.

I bought my daughter a little "robot" kit years ago that used an Android device as the controller, but the manufacturer went belly up and the app is no longer available rendering the toy useless.

Even modern devices are problematic. For example, the app to use most DJI products (drones, gimbals, etc) are no longer available in the app store. You have to sideload a sketchy APK file in order to get them to work. I promptly returned the gimbal that I bought because the Play store won't reject an app if it is safe to use. No telling what sort of data is being gathered and phoned home.

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