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Lab walkthroughs, plain-language security news breakdowns, and Python automation notes. Severity levels borrowed from syslog: 5 = security news, 6 = lab notes.

Sep 05 2026 09:00:00 %BLOG-6-SUPPORT: Building an IT Runbook That Would Actually Survive Contact With a Real Service Desk A five-document IT runbook covering onboarding, offboarding, password reset, laptop setup, and network troubleshooting, built from NIST, CIS Controls v8, and Microsoft's own documentation, including the lockout threshold assumption that turned out backwards. Sep 04 2026 09:00:00 %BLOG-6-NETWORK: I Kept Getting VLSM Wrong By Hand, So I Wrote a Tool That Can't A dependency-free Python CLI that plans VLSM subnetting from a CSV of departments and host counts, no manual bookkeeping, 30 tests, and the allocation-order decision that stops wasted address space. Sep 03 2026 09:00:00 %BLOG-5-SEC: I Ran a Real Security Audit Against My Own Linux Machine, Here Is What Actually Broke Lynis and rkhunter against a real Ubuntu workstation: three warnings triaged, a crashed Fail2ban jail caught, and an honest account of the thirty eight suggestions I skipped. Aug 27 2026 09:00:00 %BLOG-5-SEC: I Built a Vulnerability Management Program From Scratch, Policy to Remediation Policy, stakeholder buy-in, Tenable scanning across Windows and Linux targets, and ten confirmed remediations in PowerShell and Bash, including the two attempts that didn't work out. Aug 24 2026 10:00:00 %BLOG-6-SUPPORT: I Automated the Seven Microsoft 365 Admin Tasks That Actually Fill an IT Ticket Queue Onboarding, offboarding, groups, delegated admin roles, mail flow, and service health, automated with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, with a real audit trail. Aug 23 2026 09:00:00 %BLOG-6-SUPPORT: Free Microsoft 365 Sandbox: The Real Setup Guide (2026) The Microsoft 365 developer sandbox isn't actually free for individuals. Here's the real accessible path (30-day E3 trial) and how to avoid getting billed.