BoldTech Solutions
Just wanted to put in a quick plug for my current endeavor. BoldTech Solutions is a small Technology Consulting and Managed Services practice serving the needs of the SMB market in the Portland/Vancouver area. We provide innovative solutions to your small business IT problems and help you keep your focus on your business, not your technology.
New Microsoft A/V Out of Beta – Suprisingly great!
For those of you not aware, Microsoft has been quitely testing the successor to their discontinued OneCare AntiVirus product, named Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems that it is out of beta as of today and is available for free download. I've actually been running this as a beta on several of my machines here at the secret bunker, and have been pleasantly surprised on how good a product it is. I'm a big fan of the free Avast! and AVG home products for their small footprint and excellent detection capabilities, but thought I would put SE through it's paces to see how it worked.
Metasploit 3.3 stable almost ready, now with screenshotty goodness!
Every Pen Tester's favorite platform Metasploit is coming up on v3.3 stable, and there are some really cool new features added to the pentester toolkit. One of the interesting new exploits added is the currently unpatched SMB2 flaw in Vista and Windows Server 2008. Disabling the protocol is the only way to mitigate that particular nasty at the moment.
One of my favorites is the new screenshot tool. Nothing impacts a final report to the CEO like a screenshot of his desktop while he's playing solitaire! =)
Busted!
Looking for a CTO? Read this…
Great article by Charlie O'Donnell on attracting a talented CTO to your fledgling startup venture at that important early stage. I particularly like the opening sentence:
Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. When they ask, it often sounds like they're asking for a product off the shelf--like, "Where can I get some cheap folding chairs?"
Makeover time
Please excuse the mess, I'm currently cleaning house and doing some major remodeling of the site. The theme will be a mess for a few days as do some customization and add some things. Please let me know if you notice anything really out of whack...
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 complete!
That was easy! Please let me know if you notice anything "hinkey" on the site after the upgrade.
I have to say as someone who didn't look at the new feature list at all before the release, first glance has me absolutely loving the new interface.
CISA test over – Now the wait begins…
After a month or two of pretty regular study I finally got my Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) test done a week ago and then promptly took a much-deserved week off for vacation. Now comes the 10-week wait for the results. You would think in this day and age they could get you the results a little faster, but such is life I guess. 
The test itself was one of the more difficult ones I've taken due to the subjectivity of the questions. There were too many questions where you had to make a decision on the "most right" answer, and it seemed to me like it tests your ability to decide what ISACA wants you to say more than your actual knowledge of the material. I've yet to fail a cert test, but I'm really unsure as to my success on this one.
As an FYI, I used the Sybex CISA Study guide and found it to be an excellent guide of the material. I also used the official ISACA CISA Test Question CD for review.
New blog for an old hat…
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