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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

Blog Series Setting up SNIPE-IT with DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Installing Docker & Portainer on DietPi for Snipe-IT Securing Raspberry Pi with Reverse Proxy and or Cloudflare Proxy Tunnel 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. Why? Because eventually, we will use the...

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Platypus Walkthrough and Review

Platypus: Build your own Mac Apps with Scripts! Platypus is an amazing Mac Admins utility that allows you to take virtually any script and convert it into a GUI Application. Lets take a look at what it is and what it can do. Ok so the first thing we need is a scrip to get started with so lets start with a script that I wrote to determine if Google Drive is running. As you can see this simple script just checks to see if its running and returns a...

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Setting up SNIPE-IT with DietPi on a Raspberry Pi

Blog Series Setting up SNIPE-IT with DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Installing Docker & Portainer on DietPi for Snipe-IT Securing Raspberry Pi with Reverse Proxy and or Cloudflare Proxy Tunnel Setting up Snipe-IT on Portainer with DietPi How to setup Rasberry Pi The first step in setting up SNIPE-IT is to setup the platform that it will run on. Luckily the best platform and most economical is a Rasberry Pi. We are using a Rasberry Pi 3 in this case. Before we get too far we need to pick the...

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Show Me Your ID! Walkthrough and Review

Show Me Your ID! Show me Your ID v 3.0 a great utility that allows you to as stated on the website “This app will provide you with the Bundle ID, Team ID, and the full code for an application by dragging the application to the Show Me Your ID 3.0 window. You have the option of saving the applications logo to your Desktop. This can be helpful when configuring items in Jamf Self Service as it provides a look and feels similar to the Mac App Store.” I use...

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SD Notary 2 Walkthrough and Review

SD Notary 2 SD Notary 2 by Late Night Software developed by Shane Stanley is an amazing tool that has saved me hours in manual time notarizing applications, packages and DMG files and has been an essential part of my Mac Admin’s toolkit. https://latenightsw.com/sd-notary-2-released/ The Mac Admins community is a really unique community. We’re comprised of a great community of givers, and that was on full display at the 2024 Mac Admins Conference at Penn State University. It was at the Live recording of the Mac Admins Podcast when Tom...

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