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Reviewing Bravas.io a breakthrough new MDM and IDP for Mac, Windows and iOS!

TL;DR Mention the code JONBROWN when you ask for a demo or start a 30-day trial and enjoy 5% additional off your first year of annual service. What are you waiting for? Sign up for a trial or demo of Bravas.io today! Finally, real secure, onboarding and offboarding, made for the real world! Not just for technicians. So what is this new MDM, IDP, SSO and ZERO-Trust sensation thats sweeping the nation? Well, glad you asked its Bravas.io! Bravas.io aims bring bring all the best parts of the MDM experience,...

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Securing Raspberry Pi with Reverse Proxy and or Cloudflare Proxy Tunnel

Series Part 1: Setting up SNIPE-IT with DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Part 2: Installing Docker & Portainer on DietPi for Snipe-IT Part 3: Securing Raspberry Pi with Reverse Proxy and or Cloudflare Proxy Tunnel Part 4: Setting up Snipe-IT on Portainer with DietPi Option #1: Reverse Proxy with NGINX-PROXY Ok so I’ve done a lot of research on reverse proxys and they are great at protecting your internal assets but there are some inherent security flaws that you have to live with if you want perfect security. Lets face...

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Hancock Walkthrough and Review

Hancock: PSU MacAdmins Hackathon 2016 Winner! Back in 2016 Hancock was created at the MacAdmins PSU conference at the Hackathon and took the award for “Biggest Time Saver” thank you Jeremy Agostino for a great little utility!! I use this often and wanted to share this utility with my followers to share some of the tools that I use on the regular with my Mac followers. If you found this tool useful please follow Jeremy Agostino here. Citation: https://github.com/JeremyAgost/Hancock Hancock is a GUI tool for signing packages and mobileconfig files....

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Get more out of scripting than you may expect

What is Expect? Expect is an extension to the Tcl scripting language written by Don Libes. The program automates interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface. Expect, originally written in 1990 for the Unix platform, has since become available for Microsoft Windows and other systems. [Wikipedia] Don Libes is a computer scientist at NIST performing computer science research on interoperability. I just think its cool to call out and connect creators of tools that we see and use today and I encourage you to connect with him on...

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Cybersecurity is more than having the right tools

What is Cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is the convergence of people, processes and technology that come together to protect organizations. Notice that technology is the last part here. People, that’s you and I. We’re first. Without us, there is no cybersecurity. We are the first line of defense. We tend to forget that. I don’t why we forget that but as systems administrators we do. Processes, cybersecurity is 99% documentation, writing, that’s what it is, if you do not like writing policies and procedures, and enforcing them and potentially making enemies with...

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Installing Docker & Portainer on DietPi for Snipe-IT

Series Part 1: Setting up SNIPE-IT with DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Part 2: Installing Docker & Portainer on DietPi for Snipe-IT Part 3: Securing Raspberry Pi with Reverse Proxy and or Cloudflare Proxy Tunnel Part 4: Setting up Snipe-IT on Portainer with DietPi Installing Docker, Portainer and SSL At this stage were assuming your still connected to the Raspberry Pi via a monitor. If you’re already SSH’d into the machine great your one step ahead. Now that we have the Rasberry Pi setup we need to set up Docker....

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