BitLocker is a fantastic way to protect the data stored on computers and thwart some offline tampering attacks. However, if you’re using BitLocker within a business environment, keeping track of the recovery keys can be quite burdensome. Thankfully Microsoft has developed a way to automatically save BitLocker recovery keys to active directory.

In this post I’m going to be going through the process, step-by-step, to enable BitLocker recovery key saving to active directory. Plus we’ll take a look at how computers that are already encrypted can retrospectively have their recovery keys backed up to active directory.

The main part of my honeypot network is an amazing piece of free open-source software called the ‘Modern Honeypot Network’, or MHN for short. MHN acts as a centralised server allowing for the automated deployment of various honeypots (Dionaea, WordPot, etc) and the collection of data generated by those honeypots. This data is then presented to the user via a web interface.

In this post I’m going to be detailing the steps I took to setup my very own MHN server and deploying my first honeypot.

It recently occurred to me that simple tasks such as setting up an internal web server or database were taking too long. Each time I needed to setup a website I was manually provisioning a VM, installing Debian, configuring the system by hand, installing Nginx, etc. There has to be a better way.

Enter docker. I’ve know about containers for awhile now but have yet to take a look. In this post I’m going to be installing Docker within my HomeLab on top of VMware’s new Photon OS, and showing how to manage the system with Portainer.