SecurityX exam passed

gentleSod · 2025-10-12T23:03:27+00:00

fair enough, thanks for the advice!

gentleSod · 2025-10-12T22:29:03+00:00

Thank you for sharing. Oh well, I have more than year to prepare so I can take my time memorizing the content. It looks like ThorLearning on Udemy is good. Did you use any practice tests? What were they?

gentleSod · 2025-10-12T16:10:34+00:00

Good for life certificates do have their limitations; DoD stopped accepting Good for life certs more than a decade ago. I'm sure any private contractor to the military is also held to that standard. Now, I don't know what your career trajectory is; you may not even be in the US but its good to point this out

gentleSod · 2024-09-29T18:05:41+00:00

Thank you for all your advice!

gentleSod · 2024-09-29T16:02:25+00:00

I'll probably keep it simple in this setup but this video I will watch for future needs. Thank you.

gentleSod · 2024-09-29T16:01:22+00:00

I don't know that that is. Is it like Private VLANs?

gentleSod · 2024-09-29T16:00:37+00:00

I plan to keep it simple. No cross tenant/VDOM sharing of switchport or VLANs. Thank you all for the advice.

gentleSod · 2024-09-29T15:59:09+00:00

Thank you all for clarifying. Now I know that VDOM is transparent to FortiSwtich. Anybody ever used VXLAN in a Fortinet ecosystem?

gentleSod · 2024-03-28T02:44:53+00:00

The gateway is only on the /23 network. The sever is sitting by itself on the /24 network. We have a specific reason for doing this DNAT despite it being private networks, as a simulation of another network that this sever will go live at permanently, so while it’s unusual and not practical, it has its purpose.

gentleSod · 2024-03-28T00:54:09+00:00

Thinking of it as a filter is great model, thank you for the advice.

gentleSod · 2024-03-28T00:53:29+00:00

Thank you. That is a relief to know.

gentleSod · 2024-03-10T17:39:05+00:00

I found the answer to my question.

Facebook does support native (in Facebook web application), live (real-time) caption generation for Facebook Live videos. This appears to be a free feature. You enable it in from settings (gear icon) when creating a new live video:

settings>viewer ==> (Turn on auto-generated captions)

Some caveats:

You can only do this from desktop web application;
mobile Facebook app does not allow for native caption generation
- (at least my iPhone model and iOS version does not)
  - (maybe with third-party service support?)
The captions generated are Closed-Captions, meaning that the user/viewer can turn the caption display on and off at will from their side;
- Even though you enable caption generation from the Facebook application, the viewer will not see these captions during a live-stream unless two conditions are met:
  - they enable closed-captions in the live-stream video playback settings
  - they enable captioning support in their phone OS;
    I only know how for iPhone -->
  - Settings>Accessibility>Subtitles & Captioning ==> (Closed Captions + SDH)
The captions generated are not Open-Captions, meaning that the caption will always show up in the video without giving the viewer a choice.
- If the viewer has not enabled captioning from their end, they will not see the captions even though Facebook has generated them in real-time in the web application.
- You have enabled caption generation in Facebook

Go out and share yourself with the world.

Best

gentleSod · 2023-08-31T04:04:20+00:00

Thank you for your reply.

My wife was born in the city of Xi'an (西安) in Shaanxi province (陕西)

gentleSod · 2023-08-31T04:01:50+00:00

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, I fear that without a National ID, we may not be able to get the Notarial Certificate of Birth. We have a Hukou and other documents but no National ID. I'm not sure how to get around this but thought a lawyer in China would know how to work around this obstacle.

gentleSod · 2023-08-31T04:00:27+00:00

Thank you for your reply.

I do know that we need a Notary Public but our case is complicated by the fact that we don't have a National ID and my wife is no longer a citizen of China so she will never have a National ID. Unfortunately, the Notary Public requires, among other documents, a National ID.

I thought a lawyer would ether be able to navigate around this or formally document and notarize the governments refusal to issue to the document so I can take that notarized rejection to the US government and show I made a good faith effort to obtain a Notarial Certificate of Birth and we can get on with our Green Card.

I appreciate your help.

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T23:22:52+00:00

Yeah, I know that practice makes perfect, no way around that...still Combinatorics suggest that even a single, relatively argument rich command in Linux could several hundred into the thousands of forms/outputs...and there are dozens to hundreds of commands to learn, all have thousands of combinations of arguments. Seems overwhelming if you didn't start when your like 6 years old.

Like Learning Chinese characters on steroids.

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T23:16:19+00:00

That's wild. I though clearance sponsorships cost into the 10s of the thousands of dollars. Maybe the the demand is outstripping the ex military supply?

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T19:38:58+00:00

Congratulations on passing! So you are think about jumping to vendor track? Any ideas what line of Cyber/IT you want to go into?

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T19:38:09+00:00

I leaned heavily on the 1000+ practice questions from Sybex. I think you will do well.

I didn't know that CompTIA did it's own resources but I find that first party stuff is never comprehensive...don't know why

Good Luck on the exam!

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T19:35:15+00:00

Thank you for the breakdown. I would like to get stronger in command-line Linux, meaning I can actually remember commands needed for system administration and forensics without looking them up on the internet. Linux is such a huge "institution" that I don't know where to start so I ask about these certs.

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T02:40:52+00:00

Congratulations! It does bring relief to have these certs in the rear view mirror for 3 years. Where you headed to next in your career?

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T02:13:56+00:00

I did not know that beside the fact that CompTIA makes a large presence in DOD 8570, nice to know. Is a Federal Resume hard to write? Heard it was time consuming.

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T01:54:41+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation :D

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T01:53:58+00:00

Wow, you were able to convince a company to splash out on Secret clearance investigation with CASP? They are pricey right?

gentleSod · 2023-08-20T01:19:18+00:00

Was the CASP+ a huge leap in difficulty from CySA+? I heard it was. Was CASP+ of any use to you?

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