SysAdmin Show

In this episode Robert Collcott joins me again on the show. It has been 4 years and since Robert was last on the show, episode 47. We discuss common security threats and ways to protect against them.

Connect with Robert:

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-collcott/

In this episode I talk to Jeroen Schutrup about his home lab. He has dedicated an entire room to it with a nicely populated rack. He even made network diagrams (see his blog linked below)!

Connect with Jeroen

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeroenschutrup/

Blog: https://megalith.rocks/homelab/

My Contact Info:

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinreybrouck/

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

In this episode I speak with Amanda Berlin, the Lead Incident Detection Engineer at Blumira, about her project Logmira. We discuss the benefits of enabling enhanced logging on Windows systems and how Logmira can streamline that process.

Connect with Amanda

Twitter: https://twitter.com/InfoSystir

Mental Health Hackers: https://twitter.com/HackersHealth

Logmira: https://github.com/Blumira/Logmira

Blumira: https://twitter.com/blumirasec

My Contact Info:

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinreybrouck/

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

This is the fourth of a twelve episode series called IT Without A Degree. It is the original concept that lead me to start the podcast. When I started in IT I had no degree or formal training. This isn’t the path for everyone, but it worked for me an can work for you.

In this episode I explain how to move to your second IT job.

Contact Info:

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinreybrouck/

Twitter: @sysadminshow

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

This is the third of a 12 episode series called IT Without A Degree. It is the original concept that lead me to start the podcast. When I started in IT I had no degree or formal training. This isn’t the path for everyone, but it worked for me an can work for you.

In this episode I explain how to find your first IT job.

Contact Info:

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinreybrouck/

Twitter: @sysadminshow

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

I had the pleasure of speaking with Michael Levan the CTO of CloudSkills.io. In this episode we talk about passion in IT and why it has been getting a bad reputation recently.

Connect with Michael

Website: https://cloudskills.io

Podcast: https://cloudskills.fm

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellevan

My Contact Info:

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinreybrouck/

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

Episode edited by Jesse Rutledge

This is the second of a 12 episode series called IT Without A Degree. It is the original concept that lead me to start the podcast. When I started in IT I had no degree or formal training. This isn’t the path for everyone, but it worked for me an can work for you.

In this episode I cover what steps you should take as soon as you decide you want to go into IT.

Contact Info:

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinreybrouck/

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

This is the first of a 12 episode series called IT Without A Degree. It is the original concept that lead me to start the podcast. When I started in IT I had no degree or formal training. This isn’t the path for everyone, but it worked for me an can work for you.

Contact Info:

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinreybrouck/

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

In this episode I give an overview of several of the IT career paths common in the IT field. The field is so vast and varied I was only able to scratch the surface here.

• IT Support
  • Call Center
  • Corporate Help Desk
  • Sole Proprietor
  • MSP
• Storage Admin
  • EMC/DELL
  • NetAPP
  • 3PAR
  • Nutanix
• Database Admin
  • MSSQL
  • Oracle
  • MySQL
• Networking Admin
  • Cisco/HPE/Juniper/Palo Alto, Fortinet
  • ISP, Corporate, Consultant
  • AWS, Azure
• Developer
  • Traditional Apps
  • Mobile Apps
  • Web Apps
  • DevOps
  • SecOps
• Cyber Security
  • PEN Testing
  • Log Review/Maintenance
  • Design/Architecture
  • Risk Management/Business Continuity
• Architect/Sales Engineer
  • Years of experience
  • Deep product knowledge
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Partially a sales role
• IT Management
  • IT Manager
    • One Segment
  • IT Director
    • Multiple business segments
    • Day to day operations
  • CIO
    • Strategy and leadership
• IT Project Management
  • Internal
  • VAR
• Education
  • Blogging
  • YouTube
  • Podcasting
  • Classroom
  • One on one
  • Books
• Final Thoughts
  • Think about the kind of work you really want to do
  • Make a plan for how to get there
    • Look at LinkedIN profiles for others with that job
    • Start somewhere

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

Podcast edited by Jesse Rutledge

In this episode I talk with Dylan Shields about AWS Security best practices. The cloud is great and does make deployment and scaling easier than ever, but security best practices still remain a big responsibility of the cloud customer.

Connect with Dylan:

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-shields-6802b1168

AWS Security Book: https://www.manning.com/books/aws-security

Use discount code PODSYS19 for %40 off any book at Manning!