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How I Passed The #CISSP #vExpert #VCDX @kmcnam1

May 10, 2021 Bilal Ahmed 2

My Background: My career has covered areas that turned out to be quite helpful. I started at a bank, doing Media Management/Backups/Silo tapes, moving them between sites etc. I then became a data centre engineer, racking and stacking and cabling I then joined a BC/DR provider and helped customers test their DR processes and workplace recoveries and just managed services. I then became a VMware and Storage admin, working on keeping it running and upgrading it all and managing their DR recoveries. I now work as a Senior Consultant doing migration work and helping customers with changes and joining CAB meetings and all that jazz. I’ve been through many certification exams; I enjoy doing them as they force me to […]

Security 101 Series – Volume 1

September 5, 2018 Don Ward 0

Hello again my old friends! Since my last post https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-20-don-ward/ I’ve been keeping my head down below the parapet as I’ve focused all of my efforts on all things security including Cyber. I’ve also been given an ear bending (aka nagging) from my fellow blog founders (Graeme cough cough) to put out more (giggedy – I mean blogs) so it’s time to surface once again. Standard caveats apply to this post in that these are my opinions at the time of writing, subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the same opinions of my current or past employers. Since joining my new organisation Atos as a principal Cyber Security Solutions Architect, the learning curve has been massive and the […]

Bitdefender – True Agentless protection

June 13, 2017 Kim Bottu 0

Last week I was in London at the InfoSecurity convention having a look what is happening in the security world. If you have never attended InfoSecurity, it is a free event where most of the presentations are a bit loaded on the marketing side.  Of course there are always exceptions. The 2-hour workshops are truly gems. At least the workshops which I did attend to. What if you could protect VM’s without agents or without any other piece of installed software? The workshop which really caught my attention was the workshop presented by Andrei IONESCU and Adrian Liviu ARSENE who are both employed by Bitdefender: ‘Data Center Security – HYPERVISOR INTROSPECTION’. Starting with explaining how external and internal threats are evolving they quickly moved on to explain how their […]