Author: Diego Asturias

Diego Asturias

Diego is a full-time researcher and writer specializing in networking and cybersecurity. He has been researching, gathering, and publishing stunning content for about six years.
Behind the Scenes.
Diego is one of those who believe you don’t need to go to University to be the best, but he went anyway. He went to study at Strayer University, Virginia, USA, where he got his Bachelor's Degree in Internetworking Technology. This, obviously opened a lot of doors. He went on to work in major Latinamerican ISPs and cybersecurity providers. During this time, he designed and monitored networks, configured 3G/4G mobile broadband technologies, led different infrastructure installations, and learned to secure all those networks.

In addition, across Diego's career, he has also gotten certifications from Cisco and McAfee and pursued others like AWS, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Wireshark.

Being hungry for more knowledge and challenging experiences, he traveled across the world to Seoul, South Korea, where he got his Master's degree. In a fantastic university, besides drinking beer for breakfast, he also collaborated on the development of a Wireless Sensor Networks project; one of those key technologies that led to the now popular, IoT.

Diego also traveled to Africa to collaborate with the Chinese mega-company, Huawei, to design, maintain, monitor, and develop the 4G/LTE networks for about two years. After some tough cold nights sleeping inside A/C powered data centers, rather than under the beautiful African sky, Diego dreamed to become a journalist and share all his knowledge with others.
Jumping Into Tech Journalism.
Now, Diego loves what he does: Tech Journalism. Although dreaming about it, was smooth and fun, opening the way has been a wild ride. Now, six years have passed, and Diego is making a living and full-time career as a tech journalist.

Today, he tests products; from proxy servers, VPNs, network monitoring tools, and WAFs. He writes about them and gives his opinion. He researches the web, sets up virtual and cloud labs, reads from fellow experts, identifies trends in tech, and shares his opinion.

Diego also writes about server installations, securing those servers, threat intelligence, VPNs, proxies, TOR, P2P, online privacy, and more. He has been covering news on SiliconANGLE Media, has published in Threat Post, Lanner Electronics, Cloudbric, PCWDLD, ITT Systems, SecurityGladiators, Rapidseedbox, and many other leaders in the networking and cybersecurity industry.

Guides

Guide to Azure Cost Management

In this guide to Azure Cost Management, we’ll go through the basics you need to know about Azure’s subscriptions and scopes, what Azure Cost Management is, how to start with…

Guides

The Best Ransomware File Decryptors

The best weapon against ransomware is prevention. But if prevention is too late (you are under fire), or your backups were lost or also encrypted by ransomware, how can you…

Reviews

The Best Azure Cost Management Tools

In the cloud, costs change frequently and can be unpredictable. When you perform updates, add a new resource, or have a spike in demand— costs change. You would probably expect…

Guides

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Review

Without the right tools and strategies, IT help desk teams will struggle to keep up and may find themselves in a constant state of “fire-fighting”. Attempting to solve every IT…

Reviews

ManageEngine Applications Manager Review

ManageEngine Applications Manager is an end-to-end Application Performance Management and infrastructure monitoring software. It is one of the most comprehensive monitoring solutions. It helps admins keep an eye on virtually…

Reviews

ManageEngine Endpoint Central Review

ManageEngine Endpoint Central allows you to manage and secure endpoints. It can provide management and security controls (from a central console) to anything from desktops, servers, mobiles, laptops, tablets, IoTs,…

Guides

Kibana Beginner’s Guide

In this beginner’s guide to Kibana, we will go through the basics, features, pros and cons, and frequently asked questions about Kibana. We will also help get you started with…

Guides

Graphite Beginner’s Guide

Graphite is an open-source monitoring component that is good at two things: storing numeric time-series data and generating graphs based on that data. Graphite does not provide any data collection,…

Guides

Nagios Core Beginner’s Guide

Nagios Core is a fantastic open-source network, server, and infrastructure monitoring tool. It can help monitor different types of devices, including Linux, Windows, macOS, virtual machines, or network devices. Nagios…