I’m really struggling right now – between the countless nights we spent at the hive, to the time where we almost got arrested in Kenwood, to the stag campsite at Burning Man, you were someone who always lived his own way. Propane powered drums that shoot fireballs when actuated? Yup, you were the crazy motherfucker who used sprinkler valves to do it (Safety Third, of course, was the hive’s true model back then).…

Wanting to find a good SIEM that is relatively inexpensive, I started looking at the various options that are out there, and ended up falling in love with OSSIM. …then, I discovered that AT&T bought the company up. …and basically eliminated their EC2 offerings. Not to be completely disappointed, I downloaded the Alienvault OSSIM ISO and started looking at it. It’s a relatively simple debian stretch iso that has had some customizations to it.…