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by igotroot 5y ago
I totally agree with you. A part of my duties is setting up logging from AWS to Splunk and there's so many gotchas and stumbling blocks that's it's infuriating to even attempt and follow best practices. A great example is Clo
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by igotroot 6y ago
Looking forward to give this a spin at home to see if it'll be the future of non-RH based linux servers, although it'll take a long time before people are willing to throw it in prod like they do with CentOS. No way to change that
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by igotroot 6y ago
Fair point, they don't have the best track record :)
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by igotroot 6y ago
No bullshit, but my org went to Oracle Linux and we haven't had any issues whatsoever. Not saying to switch to it, but it isn't like the server implodes if you disconnect a credit card swiper from it.
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by igotroot 6y ago
I'm just not there from a skills perspective. I feel like being a SRE at Google is the top of the food chain which I'm no where near. Not trying to bring myself down but trying to be realistic :)
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by igotroot 6y ago
As a non-developer whose code would probably make your average SRE's brain implode, how competent would this 'course' make me? I started my IT career 2 years ago and my programming isn't that strong. I got pinged for a S
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by igotroot 6y ago
Do you feel that the writing course you mentioned helped improve your writing? Udemy can be pretty hit or miss and I'd like to get my blog going!
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by igotroot 6y ago
Cyber Threat Intelligence!
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by igotroot 6y ago
This was solid advice. I've been wanting to move into the CTI space and I haven't come across too many tips that break down writing an effective executive summary.
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by igotroot 6y ago
It was a winding road, but it went like this: In school for welding while also working at the machine shop. Making ~10.20/hr machining parts to repair electric motors. I start thinking about my future a bit more as I was making money (
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by igotroot 6y ago
I went from a manual machinist, meaning working with lathes and mills from WWII, to a career in Cybersecurity. During that transition I was also a plumber. The 'simple life' jobs are also taxing, but just in different ways. Bosses
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by igotroot 6y ago
Thanks for your reply HelloNurse, If I'm understanding you correctly and reading a bit between the lines, you'd recommend a move toward either a new product (within the same space?) or take a bigger drink of the Splunk kool-aid an
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Ask HN: Splunk Engineer or CTI Gig?
1 points by igotroot 6y ago|3 comments