The AWS Solutions Architect Associate is a great certification to get exposure into how AWS and how cloud computing works. You get exposure to a wide variety of cloud technologies such as virtual machines (EC2), cloud storage (S3), access management (IAM), firewalls, (WAF and polices) and automation through infrastructure as…

Introduction Greetings! My name is Tanner Jones, a recent graduate of the Master of Science in Information Security Policy & Management (MSISPM) program at Carnegie Mellon University. With a deep-rooted interest in technology and its potential to drive innovation and shape our world, I sought to contribute my skills to an…

Hello, I hope that this article finds you well in your learning journey. In this short article I will discuss the Well-Architected Framework in the cloud. It is important to to understand the importance of a solid design framework in the cloud. The cloud is allows you to be agile…

Introduction In today’s world, the use of data has allowed businesses to better understand complex problems, find solutions to these problems, understand the needs of customers, and collect and analyze data to better fulfill their goals and mission. Data is one of the most valuable assets a company can possess…

Introduction Capital One is one of the largest credit card issuers, and their data breach exposed records belonging to over 100 million individuals. The threat actor infiltrated the network through a misconfigured open-source web application firewall (WAF). The multi-stage attack allowed the perpetrator to exfiltrate data stored in an AWS…

Cognyte is a cybersecurity data analytics company that offers a variety of services including their analytics platform, network and operational intelligence analytics, and open source and threat intelligence analytics. (Cognyte, 2022) To ensure the security of an organization is becoming increasingly more difficult, and as organizations transition to the cloud…

As I have explored offensive security, I have been exposed to a variety of career paths. Reverse malware engineering is something that I find very fascinating and extremly challenging. I am in no way an expert in this field; I consider myself to be a beginner. …

Blockchain Major Technologies Within Bitcoin’s blockchain, transactions are added to a public digital ledger, and when a new transaction occurs, everyone is notified of the new transaction at a random interval. The transactions are grouped together into a block. The block is limited to a 1MG block size limit which…

This is a short article with some tips and tricks on how to pass the AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam. This is a great exam to get some exposure to the cloud and gain an understanding of how the cloud works. The future is the cloud, and AWS is the market…