Splunk – How to deal with delayed events in Alerts

If you’re using Splunk for Alerting, there is a problem that can occur where an event: Is generated before a scheduled search is executed But is only received after the search is done This will mean that: The scheduled search that should inspect the time-frame where the event was generated will not find the event,…

GCP – SSH into VMs without Public IP’s via IAP Tunneling (A better tutorial)

Table of Contents Activating IAP with OSLogin (best option) Activating IAP for Project Owners Activating IAP for Admins Activating IAP without OSLogin Introduction IAP Tunneling is extremely useful for acessing resources that don’t have public IPs.In fact, it’s much safer and easier than assigning public IPs and configuring Firewall rules, or setting up VPNs inside…

Google Workspace / Gsuite – Use Authenticator/TOTP as 2FA without needing to register SMS or Physical Token

Introduction For some reason, users are forced to activate at least one 2FA method (SMS, token or cellphone alerts) before being allowed to activate TOTP (via Authenticator). SMS is an insecure method of 2FA, because telephone companies are usually susceptible to social engineering attacks that can transfer your number to an unauthorized user. If you…

Pomerium – How to install on GKE, from zero to hero

Hello! I have been using (and loving) Pomerium Enterprise for the past few months. Do you have an application that doesn’t have adequate access control or logging? Then Pomerium is the tool for you. It is an incredibly powerful and versatile zero-trust proxy (and no, that’s not a buzzword in this case). This guide will…

Google Workspace – useful GAM commands for calendar privacy

I just had a problem where Google Calendar’s default privacy setting was changed to “freeBusy” but didn’t replicate to all users. Looking into it, the privacy change is only applied if the user hasn’t changed their calendar’s default settings. It’s not clear what settings influence this. Anyway, we needed to use GAM to fix the…

GSUITE / Google Workspace – How to transform a user account into a group and keep all e-mails

Edit (15/02): Thanks to hjkimbrian for warning that there is no way to backup emails from a group. Do you have user accounts in your org that are “shared” between your employees?If you do, that’s a big no no. Account sharing is a horrible practice and is basically a ticking clock to some security incident…