{"id":121,"date":"2023-05-17T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/?p=121"},"modified":"2023-06-10T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T20:25:00","slug":"may-2023-cysa-and-firewall-installations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"May 2023 &#8211; CYSA+ and Firewall installations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi all, a quick update as I know I haven&#8217;t posted in a little while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently revising for my CYSA+, unfortunately life has gotten in the way and haven&#8217;t been able to do as much as I would like but I&#8217;m making steady progress on this one. One particular topic I have been finding interesting is URL Analysis and hope to write a more detailed post about this shortly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoping to take the exam in July or perhaps August but may slip further, especially if I dedicate more time to practical experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a further note I have now successfully formatted an old laptop and installed the open-source firewall pfsense. Ideally I wanted to use a netgate router, however at the current time I&#8217;m struggling to justify the \u00a3200+ for it when I can recycle an existing device. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Installation was quite tricky and I ran into a range of issues from issues accessing the BIOS to change the boot order, secure boot, the machine stubbornly trying to boot off the SSD cache (yes the machines <em>one of them..<\/em> and then a refusal of pfsense to work on the LAN. Turns out it was the powerline not syncing properly but ah well, it&#8217;s now up and running. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a few ideas of what I want to try with it and I&#8217;m especially eager to get some logging done and hooked up to a SIEM (perhaps Elastic ELK or QRadar?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, a quick update as I know I haven&#8217;t posted in a little while. Currently revising for my CYSA+,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justatrainingblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}