Enhancing Network Security With VLANs: A Simple Guide to Segregating Departments

What is a VLAN A VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) is a technology that allows you to separate a large network into smaller networks. Why would you want to do this? For security. For example, let’s say you have two departments, HR and IT. If you don’t want the HR department’s PCs to communicate with the IT department’s PCs, you would create two VLANs, one for each department. Then, you would create firewall rules to prevent the PCs from communicating with each other....

<span title='2024-09-03 17:07:55 -0500 CDT'>September 3, 2024</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min

Securing Local Administrator Accounts With Microsoft's LAPS: A Step by Step Guide

What is laps LAPS(Local Administrator Password Solution) is a centralize location to keep the local admin password of that PC. LAPS will randomize the password every few days, what policy you set up for it, or every time you use it. One this is much more secure then having a single password for all of the local administrator. This also always you to have a kinda backdoor into all of your machines....

<span title='2024-09-03 16:08:24 -0500 CDT'>September 3, 2024</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min

Protect Your Data: Setting Up MergerFS and SnapRAID on Your Server

What is Mergerfs and SnapRAID? MergerFS and SnapRAID are powerful tools used together to create a robust and flexible storage solution, particularly popular in home server setups and small-scale data storage environments. MergerFS is a union filesystem that allows multiple drives to be combined into a single, unified directory structure, making it easier to manage and access files across different physical disks. On the other hand, SnapRAID is a backup program that adds data protection through parity, ensuring that your data can be recovered in the event of a drive failure....

<span title='2024-08-28 12:41:23 -0500 CDT'>August 28, 2024</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min

Quick Start Guide: Installing and Configuring Active Directory on Windows Server 2019

setting up Active Directory I am going to show you how to set up Active Directory (AD) on Windows server 2019 but this will be the same for 2016 - 2022. What is AD? AD is a central server for centrize management of users, computers, and other resources within a network. If you have ever login into a your work pc then sign into your coworker pc with the same credication....

<span title='2024-08-28 11:56:34 -0500 CDT'>August 28, 2024</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min

How to Install Docker and Set Up Zabbix Using Docker Compose

Zabbix is an enterprise-level monitoring software designed to monitor the status of various network services and servers. It helps troubleshoot issues and provides notifications of problems occurring within your systems. Install docker #!/bin/bash sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y # Add Docker's official GPG key: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker....

<span title='2024-08-04 10:19:27 -0500 CDT'>August 4, 2024</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min