Not much time to share information on how to secure your systems, or share the May Count
It's been quiet on my end lately because I've been splitting my time
between being busy with work, life, and studying for my exam next
weekend.
Unlike with UFE prep, I've been basically burrowing into a single book and then doing practice questions.
This is just a multiple choice exam so sharing my brilliant insights seems like a less-than-effective way of learning at the moment. Doing old questions and figuring out the logic behind right and wrong answers is the way to go here.
Once in a while there are interesting little tidbits I'd like to share, but the amount of time it would take to discuss them does not in any way correspond to the value associated with sitting down to write about them, so I'll do it for just one to prove my point, then I'll dive back into my book. I really wanted to say books, but there's really only just one book.
When tracking security logs, the exam manual suggests using programs which search for patterns. A user who typically logs in to a corporate computer network at 9 a.m. should have a red flag raised when a log-in at 4:30 in the morning is detected.
My insight? This system really wouldn't work well with me. Aside from the fact that anyone doing audit is usually equipped with a laptop that doesn't necessarily "phone home" to a corporate logging system to report this kind of data, even if it did, my log-ins tend to be so random that trying to pick out a pattern would be an exercise in futility.
Speaking of tracking things - I'm not even going to try for an elegant segue today - on the spam count front, I'm still keeping my humble little log of how much junk mail is hitting me. And it's down to 801 this month.
Have the spammers realized the error of their ways, or is filtering software killing more of this junk at the source? I'm curious.
But not especially. Still have a couple years worth of questions to burn through this week. At least the lead-up to this multiple choice exam is less eventful than the fiasco associated with preparing for the CKE with a surprisingly upset appendix.