2011 ...
So it’s here the big 2 0 1 1,
Is it everything you hoped? or is it everything you feared?
For one thing this year ipv4 address allocation run out (approx 45 days from the date of this post), with only 7 /8’s left at the time of writing …
For me I shall call it the year of certification,I’ve been reading several for 6-7 years now, not ever getting around to taking the exams
On the hitlist:
- ccna
- rhcsa
- rhce
- ceh
Whilst I will keep my Comp TIA A+ Networks and Hardware books, I am not seeing any real benefit of them, A+ hardware refers to more of more of the inner workings of computing hardware in general (hard hard drives cpu memory prints work, etc … ) same with Networks both seem to cover the underlying theory in depth and whilst I can see they can help to provide a better understanding for the begginer, if you have some university education I would skip them and go strait to CCNA & vendor specific certification (RH* for me).
I’m also going to be writing a lot more documentation this year and authoring more tools, around
- RHCS (Red hat cluster services)
- SNORT (IDS, though ossec is looking good to replace this)
- MAP Reduce in python (Because I can rapidly develop in python … looking at things like rsa decryption ..)
- CUDA … (I know I keep saying it, but looking at security for one parallel programming needs more investigation on my part).
So here’s wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2011.