Shared hosting is awesome! ...sort of. On one hand, you pay almost nothing to get your site or server out there, but on the other hand, your network neighborhood probably sucks and there's no way to tell if anyone is trying to access your stuff in a way you didn't intend. There's got to be a way to watch for attacks against that server you installed via your hosting providers GUI web interface.

Josh is a security analyst with OpenDNS. Previously, he worked as a threat analyst with NASA, where he was part of the team to initially help build out the Security Operations Center. He has also done some time at Mandiant. His professional interests involve network, computer and data security with a goal of maintaining and improving the security of as many systems and networks as possible. When not playing with computer security, Josh rides motorcycles, goes camping and makes dark minimal electronic music. Josh presented at Defcon 18 on the topic of building your own security operations center using open source tools.

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