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Published: Friday, January 24, 2025
| Patching solution bake-off | PDQ Deploy/Inventory | Ninite | ManageEngine | ivanti |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent or agentless | Agentless (w/option coming in Q4 for an agent install) | Agent | Both | Both |
| LAN/cloud centralized administration | LAN only | Cloud only | Both | LAN only |
| Can push Microsoft updates? | Cumulative monthly updates | No | Yes | Yes |
| Can work w/non-MS machines (Macs/Linux)? | Can identify device type but not actively inventory/patch non-MS | No | Yes - Mac/Linux agent and ability to push patches (!) | Yes - via Ivanti patch for Linux/Unix/Mac environments |
| Training/certification | Hefty Youtube training library | Unknown | Training videos library easily available from inside the Web interface. Also it looks like they do a Webinar each Patch Tuesday about the latest MS patches. | Yes check out this |
| Pricing model | Per admin console (PDQ is ok with one |
You said you wouldn't do it
You said you wouldn't click that link
But you totally did
It’s clear you didn’t stop and think
How the promise of a free burrito would be all that it took
To open up our networks to virtual crooks
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I now do password cracking in the cloud using a suped up AWS rig. More details here.
This document is under construction, but is intended to get you up and running quickly with cracking hashes in the cloud using the Paperspace service.
Resources used for this article:
Check your version with:
$Psversiontable.psversion
If you are below Major: 5, Minor:1 head to Microsoft's download site to get the latest.
I had a heck of a time getting a Cuckoo sandbox running, and below I hope to help you get one up and running relatively quickly by detailing out the steps and gotchas I stumbled across along the way. I mention this in the references at the end of this gist, but what you see here is heavily influenced by this article from Nviso
It's a new (and hopefully fun) interview format I want to engage in with members of the information security community on the 7 Minute Security podcast.
I'm Brian from 7 Minute Security, LLC and I've been having a blast doing some longer-form interviews with security folks, but I thought it would be fun to do a shorter-form outline where I ask 7 questions (ok, maybe a few more than 7...but I like lucky numbers). Some questions will be serious. Others will not.
Check these out:
This gist focuses on (relatively) free and (relatively) easy things organizations can do to better protect their networks without buying yet another black box with blinking lights.
Got some ideas of your own that should be on this list? Please leave a comment below!
Microsoft has a great paper on the topic that gives some nice high level recommendations:
This document complements the Active Directory security topics talked about on the 7 Minute Security podcast miniseries related to Active Directory - specifically #329. The purpose of this doc is to compile resources we can all use to make our Active Directory environments more physically and logically secure. Here we go....
I can't tell you how many companies I've run into that have flippin' Fort Knox around their DCs at their primary office (cameras, motion detectors, angry guard dogs, snipers, etc.) but then the branch office has a DC under the receptionist's desk with no security controls. Make sure all domain controllers are physically locked down. I think a good minimum config is to have the DC locked in a room with keycard access - where only a subset of employees have physical access.