I am passionate about technology, cyber security, science, innovation and big challenging tasks on my to do list.
Security Onion Solutions, LLC is the creator and maintainer of Security Onion, a free and open platform for threat hunting, network security monitoring, and log management. Security Onion includes best-of-breed free and open tools including Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, the Elastic Stack and many others.
Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
XCP-ng is a Linux distribution of the Xen Project, with pre-configured Xen Hypervisor and the Xen API project working out-of-the-box. The project was born in 2018, following the fork of Citrix XenServer. Since January 2020, it is also part of the Linux Foundation, via the Xen Project.
Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
CloudStack is open-source cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. It uses existing hypervisor platforms for virtualization, such as KVM, VMware vSphere, including ESXi and vCenter, and XenServer/XCP
Gophish is a powerful, open-source phishing framework that makes it easy to test your organization’s exposure to phishing.
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware’s desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor. It was merged into the mainline Linux kernel in version 2.6.20, which was released on February 5, 2007
Xen is a type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.
pfSense is a firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. The open source pfSense Community Edition and pfSense Plus is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network.
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired, wireless and VPN management, industry-leading BYOD capabilities, 802.1X and RBAC support, integrated network anomaly detection with layer-2 isolation of problematic devices; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure small to very large heterogeneous networks.
The Metasploit Project is a computer security project that provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. It is owned by Boston, Massachusetts-based security company Rapid7.
MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc.
Asterisk is a software implementation of a private branch exchange (PBX).
Citizen science is the participation of members of the general public — anyone — in scientific research. Citizen scientists might collect data for a research project, complete tasks online that help researchers.
NASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public. Through these collaborations, volunteers (known as citizen scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries. More than 410 NASA citizen scientists have been named as co-authors on refereed scientific publications.
I’m a keen amateur astronomer now living in Athens Greece. Astronomy has always been a popular hobby with all kind of people, especially since the arrival of the “Space Age”. Astronomy is a hobby that can be enjoyed even if the only optical instrument that you have is a pair of binoculars or a very small telescope. There is something for everyone in observational astronomy. Some like to study the sun or the Moon, which are especially suitable for those owning only modest telescopic equipment. Others prefer ‘deep sky’ observing and love to probe the depths of space with the largest telescopes that they can afford and enjoy the satisfaction of locating and identifying bright and faint stars clusters, galaxies and nebulae that abound in our universe. Still others like to hunt for comets or keep track of the brightest changes in variable stars, or plot the paths of meteors. Many who are also keen photographers couple their cameras to their telescopes and delight in taking portraits of their favorite celestial objects. So – why observe the planets?
Observation of the planets is rewarding because there is always something new to see and record that may be added to the continually growing body of planetary knowledge. There is even a big change that a dedicated amateur may make a discovery.
