IT Pro Tuesday #320
Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!
In the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “The Complexity and Confusion of the Defender Ecosystem,” we provide a comprehensive overview of the Microsoft Defender ecosystem. You’ll hear about various Defender and Defender-adjacent products as we focus on the complexity and management challenges that come with this expansive Defender suite.
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!
training resource
DevOps Course for Self-Hosters teaches you how to create an easily deployable and reproducible server with all the basic services a small company will need. Author predmijat shared this 100% OFF coupon that EXPIRES IN 1 DAY, and adds, “Be sure to BUY the course for $0, and not sign up for the subscription plan… If you see a price other than $0, chances are all coupons have been used. You can try manually entering the coupon code because Udemy sometimes messes with the link.”
A Free Tool
Hardening-Audit offers a collection of scripts to automate the process of auditing against and deploying in accordance with CIS benchmarks. Author Competitive-Bit6609 adds, “[it’s] laser-focused on just Windows devices or just CIS standards so I can try and stay on top of updating things.”
Another free tool
ClipCascade is a lightweight, open-source utility for syncing the clipboard across multiple devices. Automatic syncing ensures seamless clipboard sharing between all your devices, while privacy is covered via end-to-end encryption. Credit for this one goes to the author, FewNewt6922.
Yet another free tool
jsonparse is a simple JSON parsing library that allows you to extract what’s needed from key:value pairs. Author 1473-bytes describes it as “a simple way to extract out exact data from JSON. Useful for working with API’s that return large nested JSON…”
One more free tool
mmproxy is a lightweight TCP proxy that allows you to retain real client source IP addresses when building an application level proxy. It sits near the application, receives the proxy-protocol enabled connections from the load balancer, spoofs the client IP addresses, and sends traffic directly to the application. From within the application, the traffic will appear as if it originated from the remote client. Appreciation goes to dronenb for the suggestion.
P.S. Bonus Free Tools
Visual Studio Code is an open-source tool that provides smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. Lets you debug code from within the editor and with break points, call stacks, and an interactive console. Extensible and customizable and has Git commands built in. Our appreciation goes to reddit_username2021 for this one.
GnuPG allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications according to the OpenPGP standard. Features include a versatile key management system, access modules for all kinds of public key directories, a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications, frontend applications and libraries, and support for S/MIME and Secure Shell (ssh). Kindly suggested by Credibull.
