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AWS Security Hub: Getting Started
Security Hub is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) service that you can use to perform security best practice checks, aggregate alerts, and enable automated…
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AWS Security Services [Cheat Sheet]
Every AWS-native security service, grouped by what it protects: identity, detection and response, network and application protection, data protection, and compliance.
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Understanding malware classification
Understanding this isn’t required for the CompTIA Security+ exam, meaning that we’re going beyond the scope of this exam for a few minutes, but I…
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Incident response process
There’s been a security incident in your organization. What do you do? Panic? No ;)! You follow an incident response process. In this article, we’re…
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Network ACLs (NACLs) versus Security Groups (SGs) [Cheat Sheet]
To control the flow of data in and out of your VPCs and Subnets in AWS, you can use Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), Security Groups…
Read articleNetwork Access Control (NAC)
In our course, we talk about Zero Trust and how it’s an approach that believes in continuously checking access and policy violations, even within internal…
Read articleModes of operation
We talked about ciphers and block ciphers in the prior post. A block cipher on its own would only ever encrypt a single block of…
Read articleCipher Suites
When you’re using symmetric encryption you can use what’s known as either a stream cipher or a block cipher. They both ultimately encrypt your data,…
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Must-have AWS security monitoring & alerting [Cheat Sheet]
Most of us know that having visibility into our cloud accounts and resources is critical, but it can easily be overwhelming to implement. What should…
Read articleRequest forgeries (CSRF, XSRF, SSRF)
In 2020, CheckPoint Research announced multiple vulnerabilities in the popular social media application named TikTok. One of the found vulnerabilities allowed an attacker to delete…
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