The OpSec blog series - Introduction

Have you ever had the desire to improve the security of your systems but had no idea how to do it? You might have read all kinds of articles on the web about hacked companies that needed to pay large sums of money to get access to their data again. But what can you do, when you are just a system administrator of a small company with a non-existent security budget? Well, you can start reading the OpSec blog series in order to acquire the knowledge you need to make your environment more secure and give hackers a hard time. ...

September 7, 2022 · 11 min · 2221 words · Valentijn Harmers

My working environment throughout the years

As someone who works in the IT sector and does all kinds of tech stuff in his free time, having a proper working environment is of the utmost importance. The term “Working environment” is a broad term with can be anything from the people you work with to the desk you sit at, but I am focusing on the thing I spend my time looking at for most of the day. ...

September 2, 2022 · 20 min · 4244 words · Valentijn Harmers

Passwordless LUKS setup with Clevis

Typing your password at every system bootup might get you annoyed at times. Especially when you are used to Windows and macOS systems which store the disk decryption password in the TPM. But what if I told you that you can also achieve this on your Linux setup. We can use an application called ‘Clevis’ to get the job done. I will describe the installation and configuration steps for Ubuntu and Fedora, but the steps should be about the same for other Linux distro’s. ...

August 2, 2022 · 2 min · 268 words · Valentijn Harmers