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Nice, dig into it. Splunk is powerful as hell.

Are you guys using the front end dashboard interface or do they allow you to run ad hoc searches against the splunk indexes?
I hate Splunk but this is the fukkin truth. Companies will offer you a boatload of money just to create freaking Dashboards and Queries. I guess paying all that money for a product you want to get some value out of it.
 

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For those with infra in aws how does your company handle different environments (prod, staging, dev etc)?

do you make an account per environment?

we are looking to move from an account per environment to each internal service having its own account for each tier. For example lets say you have a service called “mario” you will have an aws account like mario-prod, mario-dev etc.

Basically a lot of fukking accounts will be made :russ: this best practice according to an aws rep
Unless there's some weird security concern or design issues, aren't you just increasing your admin overhead by having to manage all those accounts plus whatever resources they have access too?

Wouldn't AWS Orgs with cross account access and IAM roles be a better solution?
 

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Unless there's some weird security concern or design issues, aren't you just increasing your admin overhead by having to manage all those accounts plus whatever resources they have access too?

Wouldn't AWS Orgs with cross account access and IAM roles be a better solution?
I wasn't apart of the initial discussions the cloud ops team had they just hit me the beginning of the week like this is what we wanna do :mindblown:

Yea i think the increased overhead doesnt make too much sense i gotta get some answers from them as to why they chose this route. Everything will be managed in code though. I know any network portion im taking care of will not be done manually.
 

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Started the cybersecurity analyst job yesterday and pretty much sat there with 2 other dudes watching Youtube vids while 2 suspicious emails came in from other countries and that was it. Its a crime to make this much $$ for not doing shyt :pachaha:

Gonna try to get on the monitoring team in a few months to mess around with the IDSs/IPSs

And my shift is avoids all traffic :blessed:


Hey fam,

How did you get started in the cybersecuirty field? I'm interested

Appreciate your time!
 

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Hey fam,

How did you get started in the cybersecuirty field? I'm interested

Appreciate your time!

- worked in application support/tech support
- worked desktop/help desk/system admin and got security+
-worked another desktop support at the tier 2 level
-Applied for a lot of NOC positions but wasn’t successful.
-Got a call outta the blue for a Cyber security analyst position from a contractor I applied, interviewed and got rejected from. Had 3 interviews

I guess my advice is to switch companies whenever you get a chance tbh and get out of those help desk/ service desk as soon as you can cause recruiters are going to just offer you those positions and find yourself pigeoned holed. Cause all that took less than 2 yrs with security+ and cysa+ certs.
 

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Any free courses you brehs aware of? Looks like most are gone now.
 

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I need to start studying for aws devops pro and azure certs:unimpressed:.

The cloud game don changed, you need more than basic certs to get noticed now. Multi cloud and pro certs seem to be the way cuz I got Aws sa and dev at the start of the year, and got like one phone call despite multiple applications.

I had the impression recruiters would come flooding. However corona definitely dried up the number of jobs. My LinkedIn notifications for new cloud roles had way way fewer jobs during March/April/May than pre-corona. Seems to be picking back up tho.

The Corona situation got nikkas slacking like a mug:francis: tho

I thought I would take advantage of working from home:skip:. Improved my JavaScript but my efficiency been flabby asf:flabbynsick:
 

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Unless there's some weird security concern or design issues, aren't you just increasing your admin overhead by having to manage all those accounts plus whatever resources they have access too?

Wouldn't AWS Orgs with cross account access and IAM roles be a better solution?

I am studying for the Sysops ops and this is a solution that was brought for this type of scenario
 

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I wasn't apart of the initial discussions the cloud ops team had they just hit me the beginning of the week like this is what we wanna do :mindblown:

Yea i think the increased overhead doesnt make too much sense i gotta get some answers from them as to why they chose this route. Everything will be managed in code though. I know any network portion im taking care of will not be done manually.

You using CF or TF?

That's kinda why I'm tryna get on this cloud wave.. I can live in a linux terminal and vscode all day, but I'm tired of logging into routers, switches and firewalls, and trying to code logic for hardware that has no or limited api support.

I am studying for the Sysops ops and this is a solution that was brought for this type of scenario

What other aws certs you got?

Got the sa, doing the dev associate now.. tryna have that shyt knocked out the in the next 2 weeks, then grab the sysops. Tryna figure out if I should just run with the momentum and grab the sa pro once I'm done with that, but I don't wanna be a paper tiger. May just grab the RHCSA to round it off and update my resume.
 

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You using CF or TF?

That's kinda why I'm tryna get on this cloud wave.. I can live in a linux terminal and vscode all day, but I'm tired of logging into routers, switches and firewalls, and trying to code logic for hardware that has no or limited api support.



What other aws certs you got?

Got the sa, doing the dev associate now.. tryna have that shyt knocked out the in the next 2 weeks, then grab the sysops. Tryna figure out if I should just run with the momentum and grab the sa pro once I'm done with that, but I don't wanna be a paper tiger. May just grab the RHCSA to round it off and update my resume.

just the sa

Studying the CCNA and the sys ops at the same time

I feel the same way with paper collecting so my focus will be learning the material first and focus on labs then later this year get the cert

I want to be at a position where I can do an aws tasks step by step In my head before I go for a cloud
 
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