Create an Email Distribution List Using Google Apps

Google Distribution List

**Updated August 2017 to reflect the most current changes** I am personally a big fan of Google Apps for all Small Businesses. I find it to be a comprehensive solution, offering a wide range of productivity tools – including email. As a small business, one of the things that helps establish trust and authority with…

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OSSEC – Detecting New Files – Understanding How it Works

Security

I recently saw some discussion in the OSSEC distribution list of someone having an issue with getting OSSEC syscheck to work right in real-time. It reminded me of a similar issue I had with my own configuration and others I have read about, so I figured I’d write something to shed light on how OSSEC’s…

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Enable 2FA with SSH Connection

Two Factor Authentication Personal Security Online

If you don’t know, I’m a big fan of two-factor authentication. I often talk about it integrated into your web applications access points, like wp-admin in WordPress and administrator in Joomla, but in this post I’m going to talk about leveraging it with your SSH connections. When configuring your server access points it’s important you…

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Jump Between Servers using SSH and Shuttle

shuttle

Jason Tucker shared this cool link over the weekend and I like it a lot and wanted to share. It’s a tool that allows you to quickly access your various servers via SSH. If you authenticate using keys, then this is a serious win for you. It allows you to manage multiple SSH accounts via…

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