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Quick and Dirty IP Lookout In Microsoft Sentinel

Quick and Dirty IP Lookout In Microsoft Sentinel

I had a need to determine if IPs in Microsoft Sentinel events were from our VPN block or not. Sentinel does not provide any native way to look up WHOIS information for an IP, so I had to do this in a quick and dirty fashion. Get the IP Ranges

Searching for a Job

Searching for a Job

Making a job change is often a serious life event. Balancing the needs of your current job while prioritizing your happiness, mental health, and financial requirements can be rough. I recently left my job as a Technical Director at Praetorian to take a new role as a Senior Detection and

Head Against Wall: Odd Bootable USB Behavior

Head Against Wall: Odd Bootable USB Behavior

So for work, we provision devices to send to clients using a bootable USB Ubuntu installer with a bunch of custom options and additional software. This all happens without hiccups generally...until this week, when I needed to clone the drive for someone else. After much weeping and gnashing of

SSH Access With Cloudflare Argo and Access

SSH Access With Cloudflare Argo and Access

Although Cloudflare generally has pretty good documentation. In this specific case, the documentation is spread over multiple pages and actually just wrong in a couple spots. I am going to try to consolidate this process here. My goal here was to enable programmatic SSH access to an arbitrary number of

InsightVM (Nexpose) Slack Bot

InsightVM (Nexpose) Slack Bot

Link to the repo at the bottom... Precursor to this post: https://ratil.life/slackbots-for-fun-and-profit/ [https://ratil.life/slackbots-for-fun-and-profit/] A few months back I decided to find a way to lighten the load of ad hoc vulnerability scanning requests by our system owners. One of our biggest time sucks was

Texas Ski Ranch

Texas Ski Ranch

To say I love my job would be an understatement. The company gives each team a quarterly budget to do a team outing. This quarter our team went to the Texas Ski Ranch for wakeboarding and paintballing. I had driven by the Ranch multiple times on my way to the