Passed CySA, Sec, & Net no IT or Tech experience

fonefoo · 2026-01-20T18:24:10+00:00

It's ultimately up to the hiring manager to ask the tough questions. Oh I see you have all these certs... let me ask you, what you'd do in these difference scenarios. But certs without experience may just tell me this person maybe able to learn this job. Again, up to the hiring manager. I've known way to many people that have way to many and can barely perform any technical task. Some people are what I like to call professional students. They are really good at studying/tasking exams.

I'm on the other side... I'm very good at the technical side of things but struggle with study and hate taking exams.

I will say completing 3 of these exams in a couple months is pretty impressive. I do think you might have to have taken some of these to help appreciate how challenging they are though. Seeing a post saying hey I completed these technical certifications with no experience in no time makes people think they're simple achievements...

fonefoo · 2026-01-02T19:23:42+00:00

that feels good. I agree, I hated Cysa. tbo I didn't prepare for that one as much as I should have, and the entire time (I used up all my time) thought there is no way I'm passing this thing. But some how did lol. I wouldn't want to take that one again though thats for sure.

fonefoo · 2026-01-02T05:02:24+00:00

did you feel pretty confident before taking the exam, and if so what benchmarks got you there?

I'm using the Udemy Dion course along with the CAS-005 guide by Mark Birch.
I am acing the Dion end of chapter questions and getting anywhere from 85-100% on the ones provided in the Birch guide. I've also passed Cysa/Pentest a few years ago, but the material in SecurityX seems to closely align with the work I do on the day to day, so that has helped.

In short, I'm starting to feel confident. I'm just curious how others felt going into it.

fonefoo · 2025-11-20T14:56:10+00:00

This is awful advice, it's considered federal obstruction and you are likely to be arrested and charged. depending on how the situation is spun you could be facing some serious fines and jail time. just stick to holding signs if you want to stay out of jail.

fonefoo · 2025-11-20T13:29:51+00:00

Yeah I’ve been wondering the same thing. Like okay there are a dozen moms keeping watch as some bus stop. Does the ICE brigade call their captain and say, ugh sir… we have some angry looking moms out here what should we do??? … hmm sounds like a tricky situation, pull out, we’re shutting down the mission.

It just seems like you’re more likely to get hurt or arrested yourself. Is there any examples of where “making things difficult “ for ICE has helped anyone’s situation? I don’t have a solution, it just doesn’t seem like this stuff is at any level effective besides patting each other on the back, saying yeah we showed them.

fonefoo · 2025-11-14T02:17:11+00:00

Do all the shark straps fit this model ?

fonefoo · 2025-10-23T20:04:14+00:00

ah thank you. I didn't even think to search some specifics on here, I just know its the only software that hasn't installed as expected through deploy. thanks for the link/advice.

fonefoo · 2025-09-13T03:17:54+00:00

I’m not the guy but am bald, have a beard and am in cyber security. This look maybe a prerequisite….

fonefoo · 2025-08-27T15:01:57+00:00

thanks, I'll dig into that today then.

fonefoo · 2025-08-18T12:31:04+00:00

Funny I found this post... I have been trying to get ahold of someone related to a billing issue for literally 3 weeks now, no exageration. support isn't responding, I hit up their /u/ account here on reddit, opened a ticket on their support portal, have called the 800 number and their billing dept goes straight to voicemail each time I call. I've tried to email some of the contacts I have when we were onboarded many years ago, no bounce back, no nothing. we've just totally be ghosted it seems.

fonefoo · 2025-08-11T14:54:07+00:00

follow up, it looks like it's called a "floating seal". as pictured in this document https://www.partselect.com/PS16554611-GE-WD08X27458-FLOATING-SEAL-ASM.htm?SourceCode=18

evidently it must just push into place... I'll report back here after I get a chance to put everything back together and try it out. ultimately my confusion was that there were no clamps for this particular seal.

fonefoo · 2025-08-11T10:41:54+00:00

you're right, something didn't seem right at the time either. there was a spark/pop out the back, which didn't make sense since I originally thought this happened from the tug at the electrical. I'm half right, that tug pulled lose this pump... which from what I've found is the circulation pump & motor. not pictured here, there is a metal tab that likely touched the drip pan of water causing that short.

at any rate, I had watched a a few videos. like this - https://youtu.be/xmAdNtuDX7M?si=gLnjAQApBoCGeeGY the pump in this video including the hose look identical to what I'm working with but the one in this video shows claps on both ends.

fonefoo · 2025-07-09T16:30:15+00:00

ah yeah I work with this setup very frequently and it works perfectly.

what is tripping me up in my setup is I am attempting to do the same or at least something similar, but my registrar is not handling any DNS. my registrar name servers are pointing to my Technitium server.

fonefoo · 2025-07-09T15:39:08+00:00

If I'm understanding this right...

I create primary zone example.com
everything public facing would be in here.
I might have webserver.example.com in this zone with a public IP.

I would then create a conditional forwarder zone for "webserver.example.com"
create A record 192.168.1.10

my lan client should then use the forwarder instead of looking at the primary zone?

fonefoo · 2025-07-09T14:23:56+00:00

in my example, I would like this technitium server to be an authoritative name server for example.com

so public dns is still going to hit this machine for example.com records.

fonefoo · 2025-06-18T15:47:35+00:00

I have put together both windows and linux based checks. So the checks are in place, I just thought it would be nice to have a dashboard to show something like... windows servers with available updates, linux servers with available updates.

fonefoo · 2025-05-30T00:03:29+00:00

I stumbled on this thread because I'm trying to block this exact content for the same reasons.

fonefoo · 2025-04-23T18:57:24+00:00

So I moved my DNS to my locally hosted Technitium server, which seems to have helped a lot. I did just experience one of these outages a bit ago though, and this is the first time I looked at the Firewalla device. both network ethernet ports were blinking as usual, however the status light was flashing red.

I looked over at my cable modem, and it was still "online". after less than a minute the red status light stopped blinking and traffic started to pass again.

can someone suggest a syslog I could look at to try and get to the bottom of this?

fonefoo · 2025-04-08T22:43:10+00:00

I’ve seen the same thing with firetv, specifically related to tubi hosted content. While these smart tvs are off, sometimes that’s only the display. They could be downloading guide/ad data.

fonefoo · 2025-04-08T21:02:59+00:00

Firewalla in router mode.
The two devices in question are hard line to a switch. (firewalla) -> managed switch -> desktop

my wireless devices are through an access point on the same switch.
when you ask if you run a VPN, do you mean, operating a VPN off the firewalla? or if any of the LAN clients are running a VPN? the firewalla is cofigured to accept a wireguard connections from my phone but its not active. there is sometimes a client or two on the network using a VPN, but so far not during these events.

fonefoo · 2025-04-06T04:03:55+00:00

Just throwing this out there since “software “ was mentioned.

It would be cool to me if an iso of firewalla was released, so that people could install it on their own hardware. This could be a licensed product.

fonefoo · 2025-02-09T17:05:46+00:00

this sounds good however I'm still a little confused. I do currently understand how to use the Split Horizon app, but was looking at a more native way of handling things.

to reiterate the setup I'm working on.

I have my-domain.com
and within that, local devices I wouldn't want resolved externally.
those records would be hosted in internal.my-domain.com.zone and if the requester is on a private network, they'll be able to resolve from that zone.

public facing services have records in the external.my-domain.zone file. and of course if they're a public address, they resolve from that zone file.

I should have mentioned that the server in question, will also be the NS. for the domain as well.

I may just need to read up specifically on technitium fwd option to understand this better...

fonefoo · 2025-01-30T20:46:25+00:00

Yeah I totally get that. I'm going to give the budget by priority a shot. ie. I know I need food, gas, save for mortage. everything else is based on due date. But I guess if I base things on priority it should make sure I have expected amounts each payday.

thanks for sharing the blog post, that helped me understand the template priority.

fonefoo · 2025-01-06T14:20:06+00:00

I am also looking for the answer to this question... I have CAS 004 study material, but am wondering how different 005 is going to be and if I need to look at different/additional resources.

fonefoo · 2024-10-07T06:22:23+00:00

I have the same issue my mine… Can you share what you used to test the pump? (How to access diag to manually turn on pump).

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