I don't really have a lot of extra gear laying around like when I was a teenager. I do have a modest VM lab and recently wondered how I could setup a virtual network tap to help with the protection of the traffic headed for my webserver.  If you wanna know about how...

IF you're given the opportunity to perform a review or audit of your organizations IT Security policies then you may find the following tool useful. In a pinch you can get a secure installation running on a hardened Linux box, add all of your policies and begin...

Okay, so we need to move servers x,y,z and figure out if there will be any disruptions in user productivity. Oh, but wait, what's connected to what? How are they connected and will modifying those connections affect the performance of the system? Well, where's a cool...

In a post that I wrote earlier, I mentioned that I had trouble setting up a bridged interface, but eventually got help from a resource online (links coming soon!!!) and was able to get it up and running. One of the reasons that I came back to the problem with KVM and...

I used to have a hard time getting the bridge network configuration in CentOS with KVM to allow guest machines to send dhcp packets and actually get a response from the same router as my physical machines. God bless the gentle souls who offered help on the subject in...