MFA in Office 365, not talkin' bout Azure

Microsoft is frustratingly vague about support for basic MFA in all Office 365 offerings.  They have these lists of feature support across different packages, which go into great detail and yet don't include basic MFA.  Maybe this post will get up in the rankings so others don'…

OpenVAS for simple vulnerability scanning

I've been looking for a simple security vulnerability scanning tool for a while now.  OpenVAS looked promising in the past, but I always had trouble getting it to work.  I decided to work through it this weekend and figure out what I was doing wrong.  In a nutshell,…

Grafana and Chromecasting to a TV

I've wanted to use simple Chromecast dongles for pumping a Grafana dashboard to a TV for a while now.  The challenge has been how to effectively manage the casting source.  Chromecasts can't manage any of their own content, they can only be a casting target.  I…

Ubiquiti USG site to site VPN with a single controller

Quick note about how to make this work.  If you want to have two Unifi Security Gateways connect to a single controller at one location, you need to open up a couple of ports.  Specifically, 8080 and 8443 need to be open to the controller.  I strongly suggest you make…

Poor trunk labeling

Just a reference for anyone trying to create a trunk between Dell and Ubiquiti switches.  In my case, I wanted to create a trunk between a Dell N2048P and a Ubiquiti Edge Switch, with a native VLAN in use across the trunk.  They both seem to have the notion of…

My Grafana dashboard

With all of this tutorial publishing I've been doing for Grafana, I have neglected to post what mine currently looks like.  So, here it is.  This is the 1080P version.  I also built an iPad version that has a lot of the same info but compressed for the…