When it comes to money, I don’t like to spend it. Furthermore, one of the key tenets to writing is ‘write what you know’ or so says a few people anyways. So here we are. There is a lot of training out there so in the following I hope to provide stuff that’s not onlyContinue reading ““FREE” IT/Cyber Training for Air Force People”
Author Archives: Andre Roberge
The Bat Cave
Manny Pimentel recently wrote a blog post describing his ‘Nurse to CCNA’ journey. It was a great post and very cool to see the man behind the man who is the president of short IT Twitter. This got me reflecting a bit on my own journey. I’m not up for telling the whole story ofContinue reading “The Bat Cave”
If I Could Start Over in Tech
I’ve written maybe 20 posts or so on this here website. Almost all of them have been explainers or reviews. The following will be something different, something personal. It will probably be a bit short, but I’ll work on that, a journal entry so to speak. Incoming. The timeline has been a bit cluttered withContinue reading “If I Could Start Over in Tech”
Basic NBA Data Parsing with Python
About eight weeks ago I saw John Capobianco and Tim Bert were holding an online meeting about trying to pull down some NCAA football data using an API. I, myself, finally finished up the last certification exam I’ve had on my plate shortly thereafter. Since then, I’ve taken to doing a little bit of DataCampContinue reading “Basic NBA Data Parsing with Python”
Sharkfest22 Kansas City Review
I was scrolling through twitter.com and saw a post about a new podcast, ‘Sharkbytes‘ hosted by Roland Knall. The first episode is an interview with Betty DuBois and Sasha Mullins-Lassiter. In the interview, Sasha goes over her experience getting into cyber security and attending Sharkfest. This got me reminiscing, Sharkfest was my first ever ‘in-person’Continue reading “Sharkfest22 Kansas City Review”
GNFA, GCFA, eCDFP, CySA+ & Pentest+
It’s been so long since I’ve sat down to write a blog post. I’ve conferred with Aninda Chatterjee on my lack of motivation to write, where did it go and if it would ever come back again numerous times with months in between. To be completely honest, the drive to do tutorial type stuff justContinue reading “GNFA, GCFA, eCDFP, CySA+ & Pentest+”
Hacking Passwords, a GIAC Network Forensics Exam and an Interview
It’s been a few months since I last checked in blog wise. It’s been a long stretch for me personally, maybe it’s been the first time I’ve been feeling Covid fatigue, work burnout or maybe interviewing for a job just introduces a lot of anxiety into my bloodstream. In any case, blogging here was theContinue reading “Hacking Passwords, a GIAC Network Forensics Exam and an Interview”
Making Meaningful Connections Online
You can’t spread yourself too thin on a whole bunch of different social apps if you want to have meaningful online relationships.
Cumulus in the Cloud Just Got Real
So I was just checking the Cumulus Docs as you do to see if they finished this feature I was really excited about and guess what, it looks to be up! The big thing I’d been waiting for was the ability to build your own topology on their ‘Cumulus in the Cloud‘ platform. This willContinue reading “Cumulus in the Cloud Just Got Real”
What are you t-awk-ing about?
Today I’d like to talk to you a bit about studying in public, how I go about it and some of the benefits it has given me the last few years. Studying in public, which I’ve mostly done on Twitter until I started writing for this blog is something I’d recommend everyone trying to learnContinue reading “What are you t-awk-ing about?”
Learning Linux and my First Ansible Playbook
So Linux has never been my daily driver until a few months ago. Now it’s my daily driver for work and home and with that I’m learning a lot and since you can use a lot of the applications in conjunction with each other with piping and what not. So in essence, learning one newContinue reading “Learning Linux and my First Ansible Playbook”
GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA) // SANS503 Review
If you’ve been following my feed a bit, you know I’ve been going pretty strong for the last four months into SANS503. More than half the blog posts I’ve had published on this site were dedicated to a tool introduced or covered in this course. Well, I cleared the exam and it’s probably in noContinue reading “GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA) // SANS503 Review”
TSHOOT – Linux Networking Style
When I got restarted in networking circa 2018-19 everyone on my timeline would always profess how much they loved Cisco’s TSHOOT exam. People had tickets to do and felt like they were showing off what they knew, their experience, rather than answering trivia questions. “I always recert my CCNP with the TSHOOT exam…” or soContinue reading “TSHOOT – Linux Networking Style”
My Top 5 Network Engineering Books
With so many networking books out there, someone coming into networking could find themselves asking: are any of them any good??! This blog post, in opposition of the title, are not the 5 best. Who am I to say they are the best?! I’ve been studying pretty good for the last two years now. JustContinue reading “My Top 5 Network Engineering Books”
zeek-cut vs jq
Last week I wrote a quick little tutorial so that one could get started using tshark. In this post I want to look at different ways of viewing the same data using a tool called zeek. Zeek is often referred to as a packet examination ‘framework’ as it allows you to see what is happening,Continue reading “zeek-cut vs jq”
tshark the best?!
I wrote a quick intro to tcpdump some months ago as I was learning about the tool and I thought it was just the best. You only love what you know right?! Well last week I embarked on a quest to find some flags on Cisco’s CTF 2021 using tshark. I mean, I originally triedContinue reading “tshark the best?!”
Gitlab + Hugo = Website Magic Happy Time
I should let you know right off the top, this is not a ‘how-to’ from an expert. Instead, this is a how I was able to do something cool for the first time, article. The reason for this post is that I had to use multiple different how-to sites and was still left to troubleshootContinue reading “Gitlab + Hugo = Website Magic Happy Time”
Starting the GIAC Certification Process
So I’ve made it through just about all of the SANS SEC503 material. That’s no small accomplishment in it of itself and I already feel like I’ve leveled up a bit. I now know some of the secrets about the TCP handshake, checksums and window size 🙂 If you’ve followed me through my first threeContinue reading “Starting the GIAC Certification Process”
scapy or not, here I come!
I came across a pretty cool tool during the first part of section 3 of my SANS503 course: Scapy. Using this tool you can do many things, for example, read in packets, edit packets and create entirely new packets just to name a few. The easiest way to get started it to just type outContinue reading “scapy or not, here I come!”
new snort rule, who dis?
The third section of my SANS503 course has a huge section, the second biggest of the entire course, dealing with some 110+ slides on snort. I’m not here to give you the history of snort, IDS/IPS placement within your enterprise or any of that, instead I just want to introduce you to the basic structureContinue reading “new snort rule, who dis?”
tcpdump filters, an intro
When learning, I often try to do as my teacher. For example, when I went through Kirk Byers free network automation course he used Vim exclusively which meant I got to get pretty comfortable with it myself. Now that I’m on to day 2 materials of my SANS SEC503 course I find myself getting deepContinue reading “tcpdump filters, an intro”
Starting Over
Standing at the bottom of the mountain looking up is where I find myself yet again. I joined the Air National Guard full-time in the summer of 2018, 36 years old and beginning what is my 4th, 5th or 6th career or life stage so to speak. Getting back into IT wasn’t something I plannedContinue reading “Starting Over”
The Art of Network Engineering 