Test Strategy for Proxmox Production Home Lab
by Subtitle: Test Compare and Selection of OwnCloud vs. NextCloud with OwnCloud as the winner. If you haven’t noticed, recent articles are back in the “hands-on …
Category: Tooling
Running a Unifi Network Controller in a Proxmox LXC Container
4/10/2025: A few minor updates since this was originally posted, including a new section called Future Proofing Use of LXC for your Unifi Network Controller. …
Running WordPress in Docker on Apple Silicon
As you may have noticed if we’ve been connected for a while, I’ve finally gotten back around to getting my long-neglected personal site up and …
Why Common IAM Solutions for Identity-based Attacks Aren’t Really Working
This article was released as a whitepaper for VeriClouds on May 2, 2020, co-authored with Stan Bounev, CEO at VeriClouds, to address common solutions that …
Ransomware: An Enterprise Perspective
The following article was written for Secure360.org as part of the information presented in an hour-long presentation I gave in Minneapolis entitled Data, Identity & …
Data Security & Identity Management: Essential 1st Cousins in IT Security
As a senior architect, sales engineer, and consultant out in the field working closely with senior IT security leaders and CISOs, I sometimes run into …
The Case for “Encrypt Everything”
Within the IT industry, when considering data-at-rest (DAR) encryption, you may have noticed recently that security experts seem a little divided on how to leverage …
Considerations Around Application Encryption
For years, the use of encryption to protect data-at-rest on computers within the enterprise was solely the responsibility of developers who coded the applications that …
SailPoint IIQ: Rule Modeling in Real Java :-)
I’ve been sitting on this article and concept for months and have had others ask me about it via email — whether I’ve ever done …
Stupid Sailpoint Developer Tricks
G’day, mates — as they say Down Under, where I happen to be at the moment on a rather large SailPoint engagement. It’s been a …