by Alan Williamson | Mar 23, 2018 | Blog, Blog, Blog
I had a great time attending the BSides Vancouver Cyber Security Conference last week. If you’re not familiar with BSides, it is a community driven security conference born in 2009 from a collection of speakers who could not be fit into the Black Hat conference due to...
by Alan Williamson | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog, Blog
Previously I wrote a blog post about using Using Run Command for Adhoc Operations to showcase efficiently managing remote systems at scale. While the approach in that post is extremely flexible, it also has some challenges. The scripts had no restrictions on what...
by Alan Williamson | Mar 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Spring is here again, at least technically. I’m patiently waiting for the cherry blossoms to bloom again in Vancouver. It’s a great start to having all the trees, grass and flowers restored to their vibrant state, making everything seem fresh again. Nature is...
by Alan Williamson | Jan 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite AWS Services that I don’t hear much discussion about over the last year is EC2 Run Command (part of the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager suite). This is a very versatile tool that has gotten incremental features added over the last year to make it a...
by Alan Williamson | Sep 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
The overhead of acquiring and maintaining in-house data centers has small to large businesses searching for cost-effective, cloud-based software and hardware infrastructure replacements. These avoid capital expenditures while returning time otherwise spent on server...