What is This?

You've managed to stumble across my completely unartistic homepage, put here to help folks find some of the more useful information that I make available from this site. For the impatient, here's a quick index of the important information you can find here.

My name is Hal Pomeranz, and I make my living as an independent consultant through Deer Run Associates, the firm that I run with my wife, Laura LeHew. The primary focus of our consulting practice is computer and information security, though I also do a reasonable amount of consulting and training related to DNS, Sendmail, and a wide variety of other topics related to Unix systems, networking, and Open Source software. We're based out of Eugene, Oregon but I travel fairly frequently for different jobs.

There are also a number of other "hats" I wear from time to time:

Normally, this is enough to keep me busy...

Recently Added

If you attended my Unix Command-Line Kung Fu talk at the SANS 2008 conference in Orlando, you'll remember that I promised to make a PDF of the slides available as soon as I finished the notes. Well, the slides are finally ready and you can get them here.

Solaris

I spend a lot of time working with the Solaris operating system, and have created a number of useful resources in this area:

DNS and Sendmail

I've been working with Sendmail as long as I've been working with Unix (literally-- the reason they gave me root access on my first Unix system was to figure out Sendmail and get email working). I also do a lot of work with DNS and BIND. So I've got a lot of content in these areas to share:

General Security Resources

Here is all the security material that didn't fit into the Solaris or DNS/Sendmail categories above:

Other Random Stuff

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