Get started with Proxmox. Installation considerations, networking, disk encryption options, and migrating existing virtual machines.
Everything's presented in a useful order to follow if you're used to Hyper-V, VMware Workstation, or VirtualBox and want to jump in by moving to a Proxmox server.
What's most interesting about Proxmox is the Web UI gives you full console and GUI (yes, GUI desktop) access to your VM's through either noVNC or SPICE, even via a smart phone.
This guide shows you how to get a Wazuh instance running over Tailscale on both Windows and Linux, using Sysmon(+forLinux), auditd, and all the tweaks you'll want to get started. This is ideal for a low resource, low budget, or lab scenario. You could eventually migrate this Wazuh data to a distributed cluster (proxmox), or real hardware if you grow with it.
How to install, maintain, and run a BIND9 DNS server (named). Covers building from source, configuring, hardening, and DNS over TLS as well as DNSSEC.
Updated on 2024/07/23.
Use PowerSTIG to automate STIG compliance across a number of items like WindowsServer, IIS, Adobe, Chrome, RHEL, Ubuntu, Vsphere, SqlServer, and more, while maintaining documentation of the state as a PowerShell configuration file. This is similar to my approach of using Ansible tags to maintain and combine machine states.
Updated on 2024/07/15.
An overview of spinning up a test environment, and extracting evidence from any unix-like endpoint. This is mostly for personal reference, as it's just pointing to all the existing (and vast) documentation in a sequence that's useful for me -- and hopefully for you as well.
Updated on 2024/07/12.
Working with and customizing shell profiles.
Install OpenSCAP, pull compliance profiles from GitHub/ComplianceAsCode, debug policies with Ansible's -C and -D options, apply, test, and maintain policies with Ansible tags.
Updated on 2024/07/10.
How to set up aide for filesystem integrity monitoring and do basic tuning of the configuration.
Recently updated to mirror and support ausearch arguments. This post showcases those changes and how the tool works.
Various configuration settings and notes for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Updated on 2024/07/23.