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>I can't go to the bathroom without missing atleast 1 phone call from someone about something breaking.
Don't worry about that. Hell, I straight up ignore my phone sometimes even when I'm right beside it. Priorities and such.
>if I need to start looking elsewhere for more pay to offset the stress
Not a bad idea. Always be cognizant of what's out there.
As others have said, bring it up professionally with your boss. His response will help sway the "should I look elsewhere" decision.
Another good suggestion is to work on time management skills. Here's a highly recommended book around here.
And you have vacation days for a reason. Use them. If you try to but they never approve it, then that's a big red flag.
Actually, start with some programming, then move on to "The Art of Exploitation" it's the best book on "hacking" I've ever used...
Networking is networking. There's no difference who does it.
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Regardless, this is a timeless book: https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321336313
Keep moving forward! Check out the Stevens books. They're the Bibles for network programming. They're freely available if you go sailing.
https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Vol-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633469
The Practice of System and Network Administration, Volume 1.
I started doing everything at a really small family business a few years ago with nothing except a history of dabbling in videogame development and a degree in computer science (this is less helpful than you'd think it'd be when it comes to IT and system administration). This book has saved my company's butt as far as IT systems infrastructure and efficient time management spent in that area goes.
This should give you a very strong running start toward not managing a horror story or running something that ends up with several thousand upvotes on /r/talesfromtechsupport/ in ten or fifteen years
For a book I'd recommend: The Practice System Network Administration
Also look through the history of "[daily routine]"(https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/search?q=daily%20routine&restrict_sr=1) posts. That will give you a good idea of what to expect.
If you touch a piece of technology - learn about it. Read technet, or man pages. Make flashcards and study the material. Try to know it.
Also, try to learn broadly about all areas of technology - networking, windows, unix, etc.
Pick up programming. Bash, Powershell, Python. Learning is the one constant in this field. The sooner you bury your face in a book/video the better off you'll be. I wish I had studied as hard 10 years ago as I study now.
Some books are excellent permanent references.
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (2nd Edition)
End-to-End QoS Network Design: Quality of Service for Rich-Media & Cloud Networks (2nd Edition)
Other books, as you point out are useful, but perhaps only for shorter periods of time...
here 'tis, and it was well uner $100
https://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-Second/dp/0321492668
Best around.
This book is recommended all the time here.
The Practice of System and Network Administration
How comfortable are you with python in general? There are some sites out there like codesignal.com that offer many small Python challenges you can do reasonably quickly. As far as "Black Hat Python" drills, not many that can be finished in 20 mins. but you can always follow the Violent Python chapters while at work. That's what I did, and it seems to go pretty smoothly.
Check out the following books:
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols: The Protocols v. 1 (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0321336313/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_HsfhDb3TC15DK
By Gary A. Donahue Network Warrior (2nd Edition) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NBJPIV8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ltfhDbJCDDXG7
- Code Academy has some free resources for getting started: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line Overthewire is also usually recommended. Also, just start using Linux and google solutions as things come up that you don't know how to do. Regarding pentesting methods - There's a lot of resources out there, check the sidebar, but this book lays out the standard methods used: https://www.amazon.com/Penetration-Testing-Hands-Introduction-Hacking/dp/1593275641 (you can probably find it cheaper with a no starch press discount code)
- WSL and python (or just python, but might as well get used to linux at the same time). Also, bash and powershell scripting.
- Yes, the book above isn't free, so like I said, sidebar and such. Ask for it for your birthday, do odd jobs, etc. You don't have to make things expensive, but you're eventually going to have to spend a little bit here and there.
- Anything. Kali is kind of the standard, which is basically Ubuntu Gnome (actually Debian based) with all the tools installed. Windows is good for some tools though, and just to learn the environment since Windows environments are typically the target.
Also, second what /u/BigDaddyXXL said.
$39 on Amazon brand new if you are in the US - even free shipping if you have Prime. I would suggest used - good/like new but they only save you like $5 so might as well buy new.
https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook-Penetration-Engineers/dp/1597499579/
Practical Malware Analysis by Andrew Honig and Mike Sikorski:
I’m a proud owner of a signed copy by Andrew 😁
The Practice of System and Network Administration, Volume 1. The 3rd edition has more devops stuff in it than the 2nd edition but still has the core information.
Hacking the art of exploitation (Amazon) (No Starch) is good for learning the foundation stuff. Its getting a bit old but the foundations are still the same there are just more defenses for some of the techniques now
this book taught me a bit about it. It was interesting to say the least. It gives examples of exploits, like how pointers can totally ruin someone's day.
Warning, it'll make you peek at some assembly. You don't really need to understand it fully to get the jist tho.
Computerphile also has some good videos on this topic, and how people "attack". It may give you an idea.
I don't know a lot, but this is how I learned about it to some degree until I swapped to a different education path.
Allow me to recommend the good book.
Gives some helpful insight in terms of building a department, and how to justify things to the business leadership and owners.
If they aren't interesting in giving you a budget to operate the department, run.
It’s really hard to get anything done if everything goes through management.
IDK if it’ll be of use but if you’re stuck going it alone, I remember this is good: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Management-System-Administrators-Working/dp/0596007833
Ports don't mean you have a trojan, it's just an arbitrary identifier to tie a process to an identifier for TCP connections.
Some of them are well known or reserved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
If you'd like to understand more, this is a great resource: https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321336313/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=tcp+ip&qid=1603390959&sr=8-2
Since we're talking AWS, there is also the AWS Networking Speciality Certification as well. This will greatly increase your knowledge about AWS Networking. CCNA is hyper-specific to Cisco and really a requirement for most Network Engineers if you are working with Cisco. If you need to get started learning more about the fundamentals of networking I would go with the Net+ and then get the AWS Net Speciality Also there is the TCP/IP bible, imho TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols
+1 for CCNA materials. At least the previous CCNA. I'm guessing the new CCNA materials still have all the basics. I did my CCNA 8 or so years into running a network and I learned a lot of the basics I missed or had forgotten.
I think the things to start with are the basics of TCP/IP, what happens when a switch forwards a layer 2 packet, what happens when a switch or router forwards a layer 3 packet & the basics of how spanning tree operates. Memorizing the whole OSI model is a waste of time but knowing what problems/technologies are layer 2 and what are layer 3 is important.
This is a good book to read: https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321336313/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=tcp%2Fip&qid=1595705789&s=books&sr=1-1
You don't need to read the exact book if you're not into that kind of learning but you can find the online equivalent.
For books, this one is older, super basic and you can get the tools required if you email the author:
https://www.amazon.com/Penetration-Testing-Hands-Introduction-Hacking/dp/1593275641
But if you don't understand how the internet works on a fundamental level....not sure if pen testing should be where you start.
I have this one Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch.
I think its not bad but course content is a little bit poor and hacking methods old.
If you want to start hacking
this books very good. Also u dont have money you can also find it on Google..
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I liked the Practice of System and Network Administration by Tom Limoncelli et al. when I was starting out. Some of the specifics may be dated but the concepts are good.
https://smile.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-Second/dp/0321492668
Edit: there's apparently a 3rd edition here
https://smile.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-Enterprise/dp/0321919165
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Malware-Analysis-Hands-Dissecting/dp/1593272901/
The above is the best book written on the subject.
I know it's fairly old but it's still the definitive work in malwar analysis and is used as the standard book in cyber forensics university modules. There is no better place to start.
Buy this book.
Yes, it's from 1994.
Yes, you should buy it used.
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols @ $15
If you have the money oozing out of your pockets, the updated version is here:
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols 2nd Edition @ 2011 for $65 in hard cover.
IPv4 hasn't changed all that terribly much since 1994. The original print is still a valid source of knowledge.
But the updated edition is a nice improvement.
> Leider gibts ja kein "How to SysAdmin" Buch
Actually, there is. Das Buch bringt dir bei, mehr in generalisierten Systemen zu denken, seien sie Windows, Linux, BSD oder was auch immer gerad auf deinen Maschinen läuft.
Das Problem das du gerade hast ist dass Graylog eine Art Appliance-Lösung ist, wo du nichts wirklich selber bauen musst. Das ist für ein Business super aber für jemanden der Unix blicken will nicht so super. Appliance meint, das ist eigentlich ein ganzer Softwarestapel aus verschiedensten Bauteilen, die du auch häufig in anderen Systemen zu anderen Zwecken eingesetzt siehst.
Fang simpler an. Bau einen DHCP-Server, einen DNS-Server und mach dann dass die Clients den Nameserver mit ihrem neuen Lease updaten können.
Oder, um Systeme wie Graylog zu raffen, bau einen Syslog-Server der dir kontextabhängig Emails zu besonderesn Ereignissen schicken kann. Ich hab jetzt nur die Frontpage von Graylog gesehen, gehe aber jede Wette dass die an irgendeiner Stelle ein syslogng mitbringen.