iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Systems Interface) is a powerful protocol that allows you to extend storage capabilities over a network. Whether you’re managing a home office setup or a full-fledged data center, iSCSI can help you integrate Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices with hypervisors like VMware ESXi. However, like any network device, iSCSI present a number of security vulnerabilities and attack surfaces that must be considered. This guide will explore the iSCSI protocol, its applications, and various security considerations to ensure your data remains protected.

Secure Boot is a rather cryptic and opaque security setting on your computer. In most circumstances, it’s something you or your computer’s vendor will configure in your machine’s BIOS, and then forget about. Occasionally, you might be tempted to disable this setting to facilitate custom boot scenarios, install certain hardware, or peform botique configurations to your machine. However, Secure Boot is an essential protection mechanism to help keep your computer safe from the most dangerous and sophisticated cyber security threats.

Here’s a great tutorial on DuckDB and parqet: Querying Parquet with Precision using DuckDB

Goolge Cloud Build is an amazing and powerful capability and my favorite GCP service.

Working on code blocks

I’m installing VMWare Workstation on Linux Ubuntu 20, and had trouble with it not starting. The issues was related to Linux not being able to compile and install vmmon and vmnet kernel modules.

Google Dataproc, Presto, and Jupyter

I ended up copying some links over from my work page so I can have them out in the wild.

OK I’m opening this blog to help track my various activities and lessons learned. Hoping to capture good gists and also code snippets, links, and more.

Next you can update your site name, avatar and other options using the _config.yml file in the root of your repository (shown below).