IT Pro Tuesday #317
Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!
In the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “How Threat Actors Tamper with Elections,” we explore the escalating threat of election interference by cyber threat actors across the globe. You’ll hear about motivations driving these actors and the various tactics used to infiltrate political parties, target election equipment, and spread misinformation, including the use of deepfakes.
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
openDCIM is designed for simple, complete data-center asset tracking. Offers support for multiple rooms, management of space/power/cooling, basic contact management and integration into existing business directory via UserID, fault tolerance, computation of center of gravity for each cabinet, and more. Gh44sH explains, “this is what we use for our DC and I cannot complain.”
ANother free tool
IMUNES is an integrated, multiprotocol GUI-based network emulator/simulator to help with specification and management of virtual network topologies. Offers lightweight, real-time IP network topology emulation/simulation at gigabit speeds, with thousands of virtual nodes on one physical machine.Resident_Business_82 appreciates it for simulating network conditions.
A tip
Kurti_Blahowetz shares a favorite command to manually force an AD sync when needed:
Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta
Staff Management
The unspoken truth about managing geeks explores the factors that can help bring out the best (or worst) in IT pros as well as triggers that undermine motivation. Kindly shared by omers, who adds, “I think it speaks in a few too many absolutes and uses stereotypes/generalizations a bit too much, but on the whole, it presents some ideas worth thinking about.”
A Cheatsheet
OSINT Cheatsheet aggregates a truly impressive array of useful OSINT resources—all broken down by category to help you quickly find what you need. Author NotLoBi reports it’s still a work in progress, but you’ll see it’s already pretty comprehensive.
P.S. Bonus Free Tools
Bat is a juiced-up clone of the well-loved cat tool, with the addition of syntax highlighting and Git integration. jftuga appreciates this “syntax-aware, colorized version of cat.”
BNG Blaster is an open-source tester for access and routing protocols that allows you to simulate large-scale PPPoE and IPoE (DHCP) sessions. The traffic generator supports millions of separate tracked flows and can verify every forwarding state of a full-feed Internet routing table. antleo1 likes it to “Test your dhcp, qoe, latency, etc.”
