Overthinking, Thinking about Thinking…

I previously wrote this article and while I was writing that I was wondering do I think to much? Am I thinking about thinking? Welcome to over-thinking… Does your brain go at 1 million miles per hour bouncing between one thought and the next? Over thinking is a common issue these days and most of us

Install a wireless adapter on Kali Linux

I have been doing a course recently which requires both Kali Linux and a wireless adapter which supports both “monitor” mode and “packet” mode….no prizes for guessing what kind of course this is. Anyway I thought I would post this short write up on how to do this as installing a USB wireless adapter in

What have I learnt? A letter to a young pre-sales engineer…

This blog stemmed from me being asked by a recent graduate what he should take in to pre-sales.  I thought about it and wondered what would I tell a 22-year-old (ten years ago) me turning up for his first job as a pre-sales engineer? Below are my rules to survive pre-sales (Zombie land Style): “Yes,

One of the Secrets Guarding the Secure Internet Is a Wall of Lava Lamps

A company in San Francisco providing security and domain services for millions of the most prominent sites on the internet reveals its security secret, the secure encryption is generated by a wall of 100 lava lamps! Finally a use for lava lamps? Cloudflare protects around 10% of http & https requests on the net today,

Web Scale Data Integrity with Rubrik

Rubrik web scale distributed file system integrity – Under the hood view

Rubrik 4.1 what’s new?

An overview of Rubrik’s latest release of code which is 4.1

Codeacademy

Only a quick post today…. When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. The truth is coding is now in every day life, with the explosion of mobile devices and development of applications it is hard not to have an understanding of coding and