Today we have a fun featured interview with my new friend Stu Musil of Ambient Consulting I had a great time talking with Stu about bashing come common misconceptions people have about working with recruiters, plus tackling some frequently asked questions:

• How do you properly vet a recruiter you don’t know, but who offers a job opportunity you’re interested in?
• What questions should you ask a potential recruiter to get a feel for their level of experience in the industry (hint, if a recruiter doesn’t even have a LinkedIn page, that’s probably a red flag)
• Resume tips:
  • • Finding the right length and tone
    • Tailoring your resume for each individual job
    • Highlighting your strengths
    • Do people still use cover letters when applying to a gig?
    • Is a “hobbies and interests” section still a good idea on a resume (to show them you’re not a robot who works 24/7)?

• Lets talk about some horror and/or success stories from the world of recruiting!

Hey friends, today we talk about some not-so-glamorous but ever-so-important stuff related to running a cybersecurity consultancy, including:

• Taking an inventory of all the SaaS stuff your business uses – to keep an eye on spending, know when services are expiring, and track which credit card the services are tied to (so the services don’t almost get cancelled like some did with me!)
• Tracking domain names, and setting up your own automated rules to notify you well ahead of time when a domain is expiring (maybe that passion project is never gonna happen…time to let those old domains go 🙂
• Making a spreadsheet of all important accounts and checking all the auth methods allowed for each account – to prevent attacks such as SIM-swapping

Hey friends, today we continue our series all about migrating from VMWare to the world Proxmox! Specifically:

• Getting my first Proxmox-based NUCs out in the field for live engagements!
• Pulling the trigger on two bare-metal Proxmox servers to eventually replace my vCenter environment.
  • OVHCloud made it super easy to to add Proxmox to those bare-metals with a simple wizard.
  • I couldn’t figure out how to get a Proxmox VM as the main firewall for the whole Proxmox node, but it turns out it helps to RTFM.
  • When getting a bare-metal OS/hypervisor installed, be careful in that the provider may leave the management ports of that host open to the whole world. In OVH’s case, they have a software firewall that can be tuned so that, for example, only you can hit the management ports for the box.
  • Getting VLANs setup is a snap once the virtual hardware stuff is in place.