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I'm pretty interested in learning about cyber security.
Could you point me in a good direction to learn some of the fundamentals and basic aspects?
I'm pretty interested in learning about cyber security.
Could you point me in a good direction to learn some of the fundamentals and basic aspects?
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Preciate that fam. I did see back home(Detroit) had plentiful high paying jobs, but being born and raised there 18 years I wouldn't recommend anybody move thereI want to use it in my environment too, but we're currently in consolidation. NOTHING is moving. Not even IT due to the retirements.
Texas - Dallas, Austin, and Houston
Cali - Silicon Valley
Washington - Seattle
DMV - D.C. and Virginia (especially with certs and/or security clearance)
Other honorable mentions: Chicago (IL,) Provo (UT,) Detroit (MI)
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@757bred if you don't mind me asking, where in Largo? My parents live in Upper Marlboro, but I moved out to Accokeek. Got promoted back around the way to Largo so I'm going to look for a place around there.
PM me if you need to.
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I spent almost every summer in OP when I was growing up and went back for the first time in years... You might want to consider it homie. Downtown has changed for the better. Didn't go back to OP, but my pops lives in Bloomfield now and they got some nice places out there man.
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Not sure about any good books for a beginner but I liked Guide to Security Fundamentals by Mark Ciampa.
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The old ccnp expires on the 29th, I will be sitting for the exam probably next tuesday or thursday
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Catching up on the last few pages makes me glad I live rent free with my uncle's family 
(I do send money to my parents every month though).
My commute to DC is about an hour in the morning and a little over an hour in the afternoon now that I carpool with a co-worker.
(I do send money to my parents every month though).My commute to DC is about an hour in the morning and a little over an hour in the afternoon now that I carpool with a co-worker.
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Woke up today with a new sense of purpose. I created webpages in the past back in Tech School during my time in the AF, but not in a enterprise environment. What skills do I need to be a entry level developer? I'm on Codecademy.com learning about Java and HTML. I'm wondering will my military experience, secret clearance, and with me learning about these languages give me a decent shot?
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anyone got any hookups for any IT positions in NYC. just retired from doing 5 years as a IT specialist in the military. looking for something
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For both of y'all (and former military cats in general,) those clearances can put you far ahead of the game. The contracting firms throughout the East coast (Booz Allen, Boeing, Academi, SAIC, etc... especially those in the DMV) are always looking for people with clearances and they would rather pick someone up with a pre existing clearance instead of sponsoring a new one.
You may already know someone contracting for one of those agencies. Try to leverage those connections within your network.
As far as being an entry level dev, those positions are all over the place. At the very least you will be expected to have a fluid knowledge of at least one language, most likely Java or C, and have a decent understating of languages like HTML, SQL, or something else. R is growing as well, I'm actually thinking about trying to learn that.
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Is anyone here familiar with setting up a VMWare lab just tinker with and learn? My boy works for a gov't agency and said they're looking to hire a few ppl who know ESX and vSphere.
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I'd like to know about this as well. We use VMware at work, but I'd like to get more practice with it . Its either they have some trial version that I can play with, or I may just have to plunder it.
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VMware's ESXi/vCenter is free, there is no trial required. You can find any old hardware you have (or new) and install ESXi on it. Once ESXi is installed on that hardware, you can load vSphere on your workstation and start building/creating VMs on the ESXi host.
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Agreed. If you happen to have VMWare Workstation, you can nest ESXi servers (it's a crazy rabbit hole).
I'm not sure if you can nest ESXi in Virtual Box or Hyper-V.
Also, a great book is Mastering VSphere. They're up to 5.5 edition.
I'm not sure if you can nest ESXi in Virtual Box or Hyper-V.
Also, a great book is Mastering VSphere. They're up to 5.5 edition.
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Thank you kind sir. WIll be installing it on my box.
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VMware 6 is dropping soon as well, but yes 5.5 is the current latest. They have normally gone 5.0/5.1/5.5 and update 2 (basically SP 2) and then the next version comes out. 5.5 update 2 has been out for a while now, so sometime this year I suppose we will see something.
ESXi and vSphere are free. vCenter is the paid edition in which you use to manage and bring numerous ESX hosts to centrally manage your enterprise from one console.
You can use Workstation just for tinkering with VMs in general, but if you want to do the whole building of an actual host and making VMs on there and managing them, then install ESXi on a system and mess around with it. It is pretty simple and straight forward as far as getting one running. You can do and learn about user management and permissions, create/delete/etc of VMs, modifying VM settings and resources they are using, and multiple network adpater connections on a VM. You can also download VMware Converter and mess with P-to-V (Physical to Virtual) conversion of systems. It comes in handy when you need to migrate something from one host to another if you do not have vMotion capability. It also allows you to convert a physical server to a virtual server and place it directly on your ESXi host and you just have to turn it on.
The "art" of it is when you get into multiple hosts to manage within the vCenter environment. You can also get a 30 or 60 day (can't remember off top) trial for vCenter though and it has everything unlocked to mess with.
The only other big thing I can think of right now to mess with would be creating multiple datastores and carving out a LUN from your back-end storage (NetApp, EMC, etc) and adding that as storage for your servers. Then getting vMotion configured so that you can have constant up-time for your servers in the event a host goes down or needs to be updated. It allows you to move the servers all over the place, seamless to the end user while you are performing work on the back-end.
If you are going DoD route, you can also go to http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/os/virtualization/Pages/index.aspx and download the latest STIG for ESX and apply the settings on your server and see what they do. If even comes with the steps, menus, commands you would need to go to to complete the security setting you need to do.
ESXi and vSphere are free. vCenter is the paid edition in which you use to manage and bring numerous ESX hosts to centrally manage your enterprise from one console.
You can use Workstation just for tinkering with VMs in general, but if you want to do the whole building of an actual host and making VMs on there and managing them, then install ESXi on a system and mess around with it. It is pretty simple and straight forward as far as getting one running. You can do and learn about user management and permissions, create/delete/etc of VMs, modifying VM settings and resources they are using, and multiple network adpater connections on a VM. You can also download VMware Converter and mess with P-to-V (Physical to Virtual) conversion of systems. It comes in handy when you need to migrate something from one host to another if you do not have vMotion capability. It also allows you to convert a physical server to a virtual server and place it directly on your ESXi host and you just have to turn it on.
The "art" of it is when you get into multiple hosts to manage within the vCenter environment. You can also get a 30 or 60 day (can't remember off top) trial for vCenter though and it has everything unlocked to mess with.
The only other big thing I can think of right now to mess with would be creating multiple datastores and carving out a LUN from your back-end storage (NetApp, EMC, etc) and adding that as storage for your servers. Then getting vMotion configured so that you can have constant up-time for your servers in the event a host goes down or needs to be updated. It allows you to move the servers all over the place, seamless to the end user while you are performing work on the back-end.
If you are going DoD route, you can also go to http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/os/virtualization/Pages/index.aspx and download the latest STIG for ESX and apply the settings on your server and see what they do. If even comes with the steps, menus, commands you would need to go to to complete the security setting you need to do.
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VMware Fusion is the Workstation equivalent for Mac.
If you have a Windows VM within Virtual Box, you might can install Workstation inside that VM, and have a VM inside your VM, for testing, but the performance might not be the greatest if you don't have a ton of resources allocated to that Virtual Box instance.
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Was actually coming to post this deal that I saw on Mac Bundler today since I see so many people in here talking about programming. It is a donate what you want type of deal, but you have to beat the average to "unlock" all 8 to download, and you get 8 courses (over 95+ hours) of material. The courses include various levels of Python, Ruby, & PHP. The average you have to donate to get them all is only $9.51 and it goes towards charity I believe.
https://macbundler.stacksocial.com/sales/python-programming-for-beginners
https://macbundler.stacksocial.com/sales/python-programming-for-beginners
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I just graduated with BS in Business and I am looking to go into the IT field. I was going to take a few classes at a local community college to get a little more background. Would that be the best option or should I just learn it on my own. I'm trying to get a job in the IT area.
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Are you trying to tie in the business aspect with? Like an IT Business/Requirement/Project Analyst or something? Or are you just trying to go purely an IT engineering field with it?
Even if you are taking college courses, have somewhat of a decent knowledge going into it will help. You trying to take networking, systems, security, or programming classes?
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Yes I want to tie it in with business. I want to go the networking and programming route. I like aspects of IT really. Especially web development
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Damn, and I'm moving there in a few weeks lol
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Depends on the spectrum you going into and your experience. I got homies who got out the military who went into the networking side. You know Cisco and stuff like that. Both making 65 and 68K respectively. I got off into servers. We was Senior Desktop Engineers and I went for my MCSA and they did CCNA. Tampa not coming right with the Junior Sys Admin roles. IDK about Orlando, Jacksonville, or Miami. Florida is a developer market. If you get a decent paying job lets say 50+ you will enjoy yourself out here. Can't beat the weather, and women. I'm just in a unique situation.
