IT Pro Tuesday #321
Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!
In the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “Data Broker Breaches – Insider Threats and More,” we provide a comprehensive monthly threat review. You’ll hear about several major cybersecurity incidents from the past month as well as vendor risk management and the history of election tampering—including recommendations for organizations to mitigate threats.
We’re looking for favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.
Now on to this week’s list!
A Free Tool
containerd is a simple, portable container runtime that can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system, including image transfer and storage, container execution and supervision, low-level storage and network attachments. Available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. A favorite of povilasvme.
training resource
Network Diagram 101 explains how you can employ 17 specific strategies to create vastly improved network diagrams. You’ll learn how to leverage both your creative and analytical skill sets to produce diagrams that are visually stimulating and technically informative. A shout out for this recommendation goes to VA_Network_Nerd.
A Tutorial
Understanding Microsoft Entra Licensing With Multiple Tenants aims to clear up some of the ambiguity regarding what and when a user is actually entitled to Microsoft Entra ID Premium in multi-tenant scenarios. Justtheguygreen appreciates it for explaining exactly why “you don’t need to license duplicate users across tenants for Microsoft Entra.”
A Tip
Fungiblefaith offers a simple-yet-powerful question that will often disarm someone who is aggressively challenging your knowledge—despite the fact that they actually requested your help to solve their problem:
“Why am I here?”
Another Tutorial
Segment Routing MPLS – Introduction is an informative session recording from the Flood & Learn Networking Broadcast. In this presentation, Jose Liste offers a detailed walk through of the fundamentals of segment routing, which can simplify protocols and help with troubleshooting. Kindly suggested by DaryllSwer.
P.S. Bonus Free Tools
Network Throughput Calculator estimates TCP throughput and file transfer time based on network link characteristics and TCP/IP parameters. Results include link bandwidth, max achievable throughput, BDP, min required TCP RWND, expected max throughput, and min transfer time for a 100 MByte file. Kindly suggested by HoorayInternetDrama.
Glance is a cross-platform monitoring tool that compactly presents a ton of information, dynamically adapting what is displayed depending on the terminal size. Can also work in client/server mode, and remote monitoring can be done via Terminal, Web interface or API. Statistics can be exported to external time/value databases. Big_Statistician2566 says, “for a quick ‘What’s going on in the world’ portal, I love Glance.”
