I hear this Kamala Harris punk may take a crack at it

Derp, thanks for the prompt. I'd like to move to a position for more income. Government or private. Currently at $127k / yr.

Looking for cert guidance!

I'm a late-40's life-long IT guy, working as a cybersecurity architect / deputy CISO for a state govt agency the last few years. I have my CISSP and bachelor's in IT mgmt from WGU.

I have access to free microsoft classes & cert tests through my employer. Thinking about going back and getting some certs. Does it make sense to do the security certs in order?

SC-900, SC-100-200-300-400, AZ 500

Or am I overthinking it and I should just jump in and try a test to see how I do?

Also off work today, so it's pet-project time: I have some scripts that collect local housing rental prices. I've been collecting this information in a sqlite db using python webscraping libraries, so I can chart the effects of gentrification and homelessness in my (small, rural) community.

Thanks for doing these. We're here, this community is growing, and your encouragement and nudging is good 😀

I could use a resume review.

I'm a security architect in the public sector, state government. I started as an entry level sysadmin around 2000. I'm being strongly encouraged to apply for the CISO position here. I'm 46, and currently lead a team of 3.

Every time I apply for the private sector, including lower level jobs, it's crickets. If I apply for govt work, I get people banging on my door.

How do I get a resume review, or someone to point out what I need to make the jump from govt to private sector?

t every company should have? Is there even a frame

I was the lone security person there for a bit. Now there's 4 of us. I broke it down into two risks:

service / system outage data breach / loss

The way I approached shoring up defenses was with specific activities each week:

vulnerability remediation audit & compliance incident response governance & policy security awareness program

It might help to think of things in a maturity model. Putting in a SEIM is a big job, and maybe more appropriate for when the security program at your org has matured more. What you can do is spend time working on the other stuff - what's your endpoint protection? What compliance requirements do you have? How's your inventory & asset management? What's policy look like? Do your AD accounts all make sense? What's the password policy? Do you have any old service accounts?

Picking little stuff allows you to make progress, and gets you ready to move to the bigger things. A mentor once told me to use a checklist (for life in general, but applies to cyber):

1 Did they ask you for help 2 Do you have it to give 3 Have you done enough for now

Good luck!

Usually labeled as P series.

This is how I do my home system, Dell r710xd I believe. I bought it used via craigslist and I think it came from the local power company. In the States we have government surplus sites that have stuff cheap.

You can mount a rack mount system vertically on the side of the wall, hanging down with a couple of shelf brackets.

This was great! Love bikini kill, nice to see a Ska cover :)

If it's #2, I tend to scoop (with a plastic dog bag, I don't use one of those ) pretty much right away, tie it off & put it in the trash. I'm with @iamericandre@lemmy.world, changing to wood cut down on smell quite a bit. I change it out once a week now.

There's wood pellets in there now :) Big fan of wood pellets since 2020!