Category: Security
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Autonomous AIOps with Zabbix 7.0 and Local LLMs: Building a Closed-Loop Self-Healing Infrastructure
How I hooked Zabbix 7.0 webhook alerting directly into an on-premise NVIDIA RTX 4070 SUPER running a custom 14B reasoning model, enabling autonomous diagnostic reasoning, Tactical RMM fleet…
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Slashing Cloud AI Token Costs by 90%: Building a Hybrid Local GPU Routing Engine with Ollama and Antigravity
How I paired an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER running a custom 14B reasoning model with Antigravity cloud orchestration, slashing API token costs by 90% while keeping sensitive…
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Bare-Metal Backups That Actually Work: Deploying UrBackup for Windows and Linux Fleets
How I deployed UrBackup on Docker with a dedicated 500GB storage volume, configured client discovery across VLANs, and automated block-level image backups with instant VHD mounting.
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One Login to Rule Them All: Setting Up Authentik OIDC and Hardware Passkeys Across 15+ Services
How I eliminated password sprawl across 15+ homelab services using self-hosted Authentik, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and hardware YubiKey WebAuthn authentication.
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Hunting Network Ghosts: Centralizing Syslog from UniFi, Linux, and Windows with Grafana Loki & Promtail
How I eliminated fragmented device consoles by deploying Grafana Loki and Promtail to ingest RFC-5424 syslog streams across my UniFi gateway, switches, Docker nodes, and Windows hosts—secured behind…
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Controlling My Homelab over Signal: Building an Encrypted AI Bot Daemon
How I built a zero-cloud, end-to-end encrypted management daemon using Signal-CLI REST API and Python to monitor, query, and command my homelab infrastructure securely from my phone without…
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My 10-VLAN UniFi Blueprint: How I Segmented Home, Office, and Storage
The single most common mistake I see in both small business setups and enthusiast homelabs is the “flat network.” Everything—family tablets, smart lightbulbs, IP cameras, production domain controllers,…
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Enterprise SIEM in the Lab: Deploying Wazuh 4.14 Across Active Directory, Linux, and Hypervisors
Firewalls and VLANs protect your perimeter, but they tell you almost nothing about what happens inside an operating system once a machine is on your network. If an…
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Zero Plaintext Secrets: How I Use an Internal Vaultwarden as a Central Network Keystore
If you look through the repositories, scripts, and Docker Compose files of most IT environments, you will find a horror show: plain text passwords in .env files, hardcoded…
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Why My AI Assistant Cannot Touch My Servers Without Permission
People always ask me: “If you have local AI models with access to your network, why don’t you just let them fix things automatically?” The short answer: because…