System Advancements at the Monastery

SANS COINS Program Can Help With DoD 8570

Posted in CISSP, Links, SANS on Aug 26th, 2008

In today’s economy, we are all looking to save some money. This applies even to our security training budgets. The last three SANS certifications I obtained were made possible by the SANS Work Study Program. The program allows the volunteer to pay a fee of $700, which is applied towards tuition and [...]

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Request Tracker Installation (Part 2 of 2)

Posted in Apache, Leopard, Links, Mac OS X, ModSecurity, MySQL, NIST, OpenSSL, PHP, Request Tracker on Aug 3rd, 2008

Awhile back, I posted “Request Tracker Installation (Part 1 of 2),” which provided information and additional links concerning Request Tracker (RT). As a reminder, RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which allows for the checking of the status of various tasks including when the tasks were requested, who requested the tasks and why, [...]

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Open Source and Service-Orientated Architecture

Posted in Links, Open Source, SOA, Web Application on Jan 28th, 2007

“These blind men, every one honest in his contentions and certain of having the truth, formed schools and sects and factions…” — Buddha

“The Blind Men and the Elephant” is a classic fable. As the world of IT becomes more complex, the people in IT become more specialized. People become so focused in their [...]

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