The story of my home lab… I have always been a tinkerer but recent months made me think of a versatile but low power lab. When it comes to labs you can really go down the rabbit hole and spend thousands on different enterprise servers, firewalls, routers. Choice of Hardware It just takes a brief… Continue reading Big Things Have Small Beginnings….
Category: Cloud
Creating and Designing a Diagnostic Test using Qualtrics
Many moons ago I was picked as a technical consultant to design and implement an online test. It was conceived as a diagnostic numeracy and literacy test to help student teachers prepare for their LANTITE exams. The initial idea showed so much promise that leaders at the organisation wanted to develop and commercialise a product… Continue reading Creating and Designing a Diagnostic Test using Qualtrics
Pi Hole as a Cyber Security Tool pt 4: The change in the browsing experience
Introduction Here is a link to the original LinkedIn article. Welcome to the 4th and final part of my series: Pi Hole as a Cyber Security tool. I have written in length about how to install and set up the system. DNS Sinkholes can be used as a form of security hardening: aligned to different frameworks. The… Continue reading Pi Hole as a Cyber Security Tool pt 4: The change in the browsing experience
Pi Hole as a Cyber Security Tool pt 3: Installing a Splunk Server
Introduction This is the third part in a series about using a Pi Hole as a Cyber Security tool. My previous articles are available and easy to access. Click here for the original LinkedIn article. Methodology Install Pi Hole on Raspberry Pi Create Ubuntu Server in Cloud Install Splunk on Ubuntu Server. Install Splunk Universal… Continue reading Pi Hole as a Cyber Security Tool pt 3: Installing a Splunk Server
Pi Hole as a Cyber Security Tool pt 2: Install Pi Hole on Raspberry Pi
Introduction This article is a copy of the original posted on LinkedIn. My previous article I introduced the concept of using Pi Hole software running on the Raspberry Pi as a Cyber Security tool. This undertaking was part of a capstone project to complete a recent course. Pi Hole is effectively ‘DNS Sinkholing’ software. A… Continue reading Pi Hole as a Cyber Security Tool pt 2: Install Pi Hole on Raspberry Pi
Pi Hole as a Cyber Security Tool pt 1
The Premise The following blog entry is a copy of my Linkedin article. Hello world! Until recently I was enrolled in an intense programme of study designed for people looking to start a career in Cyber Security. This is the first post in a series about my project. I am using this medium to gather… Continue reading Pi Hole as a Cyber Security Tool pt 1
Presentation of my Capstone Project of my Cyber Security course:
“Pi-Hole as a Cyber Security Tool” This project investigated the effects of Pi Hole on telemetry data, tracking, malware and adware.
Learning Analytics
Samples of Work During my working in Higher Education I have explored the realm of Learning Analytics: Using data to drive important teaching/business decisions. I have been given the opportunity to present my work at conferences and I derived great satisfaction from the positive feedback of attendees. Interactive Reports The most recent conference in question was… Continue reading Learning Analytics