About Michael Yuen @yuenx

Michael is an outdoor enthusiast and a Cybersecurity Engineer with a 17-year background in IT Systems Engineering. He aims to live a life that is good and inspired. He enjoys being a parent, hiking, photography, food, technology, DIY projects, travel, mentoring, and building relationships. See his family's story.
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9 May 2020

Review: Goal Zero Yeti 500x Portable Power Station

By |2023-10-13T17:21:53-07:00May 9, 2020 - Saturday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 19 mins. Goal Zero products are expensive. They are also the industry leader in portable power stations with a safety record to brag about. After having reviewed a handful of batteries, I finally took the plunge to look at the newly-released Yeti 500x. What I learned over the past five weeks surprised me.

1 May 2020

Active Directory: Group and Membership Changes – Windows Event IDs, Auditing, Splunk (Bonus: Security Events for Investigation, Audit)

By |2023-03-08T11:21:04-08:00May 1, 2020 - Friday|Security, Technology|

Read: 13 mins. How do you find out who made a change to an Active Directory or Builtin Local Group? Which users were added to or removed from a group? When was a group deleted? In this post, we look at Group and Membership change Event IDs, and explore how to use Splunk to find relevant information to aid in your investigations.

29 Apr 2020

Review: CORE Instant Cabin 9-Person Tent

By |2023-11-03T17:42:36-07:00Apr 29, 2020 - Wednesday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 10 mins. For this review, my son and I took the CORE 9 Instant Cabin Tent out to the backyard for three days and two nights after he was disappointed our Sequoia National Park camping trip had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a perfect opportunity for some father-son bonding, to test out our new tent, put some of my other gear to use, and to get some sense of normalcy back into our lives.

17 Apr 2020

Review: Jackery Explorer 1000 Portable Power Station

By |2023-10-13T17:22:01-07:00Apr 17, 2020 - Friday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 19 mins. Jackery, a young company founded as recently as 2012, is one of Amazon's top sellers in the portable power station category. Its newest, most powerful battery was just released in 2020: the "Explorer 1000". In this review, the high-capacity power station will be dissected to see what makes the company's products so appealing.

14 Apr 2020

MS Teams: Who Recorded The Meeting? Who Downloaded a Copy of The Recording?

By |2021-05-18T21:30:26-07:00Apr 14, 2020 - Tuesday|Microsoft 365, Security, Technology|

Read: 3 mins. A sensitive, internal meeting was held within Microsoft Teams, and someone had accidentally recorded it. The organizer was extremely unhappy when nobody admitted to it, particularly since any attendee was able to download a copy of the recording. An urgent request to the Office 365 and Information Security teams was put out to investigate. How did we go about in doing so?

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