Andy Syrewicze

Passionate Storyteller | Public Speaker | SysAdmin turned security professional | Security Evangelist for Hornetsecurity | Microsoft CDM MVP | Addicted Gamer | Neutral Good | Stream Occasionally as TheInfotechGamer on Twitch

#Azure #Microsoft365 #MVPBuzz #Infosec #SecOps #MentalHealth

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2025-05-27

New project alert: I’m writing a weekly roundup for #sysadmins, the #ITPro, and anyone who appreciates patching servers at 3am (or not!)

It’s called SysAdmin Weekly.
First issue’s out now > open.substack.com/pub/sysadmin

Featuring tools, community blogs, CVEs, and podcast stuff.

#infosec #technews

SysAdmin Weekly - The Newsletter
2025-04-26

The next episode of #SysAdmin Weekly is out! In this Episode Eric Siron and I discuss all things #AzureLocal, a rebranded and enhanced #AzureStackHCI.

This episode also includes some cool discussions around #Azure Local in disconnected environments as well!

Full Episode > youtu.be/YpEG-u_A9Qs?si=K12SfY

2025-04-24

I was today years-old when I discovered there was a MITRE ATT&CK Containers Matrix - attack.mitre.org/matrices/ente

#mitre #containers #cybersecurity

A Screenshot of the MITRE Attack Containers Matrix Web Page
2025-04-24

Today’s #vinyl listening material while I work on some #proxmox labs.

An image of a vinyl record: Close to the Edge by Yes
2025-04-24

@GossiTheDog I noticed that too and thought about setting off to see what it was all about, but I'm easily distracted by other things =D

2025-04-24

Yes! Finally have native vertical tabs in #firefox. As the browser addon ecosystem is so ripe for misbehavior I've never felt comfortable enabling one of the third-party addons for this feature, especially those that have access to "read all data on all websites" access. Ugh.... just feels icky.

Image of Firefox Sidebar settings
2025-04-15

I did the thing.... I couldn't help myself =D

#MVPBuzz

An action figure of an IT security professional
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2025-03-05

“I want to raise my grave concerns that the aggressive threats to cut U.S. government probationary employees will have a devastating impact on the cybersecurity and our national security.” @RGB_Lights testifies to Congress.

cyberscoop.com/joyce-china-pro

2024-09-22

This album never fails to put me in "the Zone" when it comes to content creation.... #DaftPunk #Tron

2024-08-04

Anyone else old like me and played the hell out of this game back in the DOS days when they were a kid? I just had a remix of the "Geoscape" theme popup on my Apple Music Radio station and it just made my day LOL

2024-07-11

I am so very happy and deeply grateful to be able to remain a member of the amazing #MVPBuzz community! This is year 11 total for me and after 10 years across Hyper-V and cloud and datacenter mgmt, this will be my first year as a Security MVP in the SIEM & XDR competency area!

2024-07-10

@JeffHicks Congrats Jeff!

2024-07-04

@jerry going to bed at a reasonable hour is overrated anyway =P

2024-07-04

Anyone else’s writing and content-creation brain work better at night when it’s dark, late, and you’re fighting heavy eyelids? I do some of my best work during that timespan in the late evening. Maybe it’s the lack of human interruption, or maybe my mind is just too busy and distracted during the daytime…..

2024-07-04

@britt - I like the portability and media use-cases of mine when traveling like many of the folks here. I also pair mine with a teleprompter at my desk when needed for content creation. The 11’ iPad Air fits perfectly, and with sidecar I can just control it with the MBP that sits at my desk.

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Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:britt@mstdn.games
2024-07-04

Hey folks that have a laptop but also have an iPad…

Please help me understand like I’m 12… what are the use cases for having a keyboard on your iPad when you could just type on your laptop?

I’m asking legitimately.
What am I missing?
I have both a MacBook and an iPad but my iPad is very likely not being used to its potential.

*edit* I usually use my iPad as a sidecar monitor when away from my external display OR as a Netflix machine.

Halp pls :)

2024-06-16

Happy Father's Day to the fellow dads out there! Kudos for working hard for your family every day! In my case today, tech support must continue for the Azure Container Instance hosted family Minecraft server. It's part of the job description when you're a dad that works in tech =D - #FathersDay #Minecraft #Azure

2024-06-16

@traecer oh nice! ZFS on Proxmox sounds interesting. Performance and feature testing?

2024-06-15

What's your tech project this weekend? Mine is to get a static site with RSS feed via Jekyll syncing into a Substack publication, so I can author to Substack via Markdown language. Crazy? Maybe... but......it's my process lol. #substack #weekendtech #markdown

2024-06-14

We have new intel regarding a campaign using "PasteJacking" to distribute the DarkGate malware. Nothing like end-users blindly pasting the contents of their clipboard and following malicious instructions - 🤦‍♂️ - We discuss in detail in this episode of The Security Swarm Podcast > buff.ly/3KFnK9w - #cybersecurity #darkgate #secops

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