Understanding password requirements

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just published new password requirements and it can be counterintuitive to say the least. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like they did a great job of explaining why things are changing and what the changes mean, so I’ll do so

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kbbj4November 14, 2022Policy and Procedure, Tech tipscybersecurity, zero trustLeave a comment

Your coworkers are not your customers.

Perhaps some of the problems between IT and the rest of a company are caused by treating non-IT as customers like the IT department is not just a separate function in the organization, but a separate organization itself. I’ve been part of internal IT departments that call other employees in

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kbbj4May 9, 2022UncategorizedworkLeave a comment

Home lab presentation

There’s a video of me discussing home lab with Bridges in Tech. You should absolutely check out Bridges in Tech, a community to support women of color in technology. https://bridgesintech.com/

kbbj4October 4, 2021Tech tipshome lab, presentationsLeave a comment

History of my home lab

Putting together a history for two reasons: 1) I’m giving a talk on Wednesday and 2) It’s fun My home lab traces back to my first Macbook in 2008. I wanted to run Windows, for reasons I can’t recall but probably were just, “I can’t”. A friend down the

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kbbj4March 3, 2021Tech tipsBridges in Tech, home lab, presentationsLeave a comment

Home lab resources

Giving a presentation on getting your feet wet in home labs, so put together a list of resources. Feel free to add to it! Reddit.com/r/homelab is a great place for help, reassurance, community, pretty pictures Check out this new to post:

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kbbj4March 3, 2021Tech tips, ToolsBridges in Tech, home lab, presentationsLeave a comment

Internet In A Box

One of my big projects for the year is to create what I’m calling, Internet In a Box. It’s a self-contained device able to provide social networking and collaboration to small groups. Its intent is to be used by protestors in the event their government turns off the internet and cellular

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What is Zero Trust?

Pretty sure I know what zero trust is as I use it. Can I define zero trust, though? We’ll find out. You’ve probably heard at least one person in IT grumble, “Never trust, always verify.” And that’s about the bulk of zero trust. There’s a whole NIST

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kbbj4December 21, 2020Policy and Procedurecybersecurity, framework, NIST, zero trustLeave a comment

Extra Life Game Day Roundup

Extra Life game day has come and gone now. Every year on the second Saturday of November people go full telethon for 24 hours of live gaming. Usually, I spend it at the hospital raising money by dungeon mastering some DnD games throughout the day. This year, of course, is a little different and I

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kbbj4November 10, 2020UncategorizedCauses, Extra Life, Streaming, VolunteerLeave a comment

Linux Gaming

I’m trying, I promise! Really, I want to do it badly. I’ve wanted to just go full-time desktop Linux for 12 years now, but gaming is so hard! I love tinkering and prefer that to gaming, so why is it so tough? I’m currently running Fedora 32 on my gaming PC, but dual

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kbbj4June 25, 2020UncategorizedLeave a comment

Managing Windows applications with Chocolatey

I’m a big fan of package managers and if you’ve ever used Linux or even an app store, you probably are too. Chocolatey is that solution for Windows. It’s simple to install at the command line ( https://chocolatey.org/install ) and can be used as a command (choco install

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