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1. Information Security Management for Sysadmins

   Like many people, I ended up in information security management because I was leading the sysadmin / infrastructure / operations team at my workplace. A business requirement for IS compliance came up, and it landed on my plate, because compliance is assumed to be about configuring servers. As I got stuck in …

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2. Adventures in Ansible and Vagrant

   NB: This is a work in progress, probably doesn't represent best practice, but this topic is thorny and poorly-documented, so I thought it best to actually talk through the discovery process.

   I use Ansible to manage my personal infrastructure. It means I can keep config in version control, and migrate …

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3. ncdu

   I've recently become aware of ncdu, which stands for NCurses Disk Usage. It's a text-mode utility to explore disk usage; it's a bit like du, but more useful interactively. It can be pretty handy for figuring out where your disk space has gone.

   It has a very powerful feature, with …

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4. Dave's Tech Thoughts

   This is an attempt to use Gitlab Pages as a blog of sorts for musings around technology, information security etc.

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