AWS Security Specialty C03 vs C02: What Actually Changed
By the time you are reading this, the C02 version of the AWS Security Specialty exam is no longer available. It has been replaced by…
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AWS SCS-02 Practice Exam Questions With Detailed Explanations
Studying for the AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-02) certification exam? Practice and challenge your readiness with our free practice exam questions. We’ll be adding a…
AWS Services and Concepts on the AWS Security Specialty Exam [Cheat Sheet]
Sometimes the hardest part is knowing where to start studying for an exam. With so much to learn and so many different topics, what should…
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…
Network 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…
Modes 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…
Cipher 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,…
Directory / Path Traversal
Just like you have directories on your PC, laptop, and mobile phones, web servers also have directories. For example, if you were to purchase web…
Answers to Performance-Based Questions (PBQs) | Security+ 601
This post contains the answers and explanations to our free Performance-Based Questions (PBQs) that we specifically designed to prepare you to take and pass the…
Exercise types (red/blue/white/purple teams)
We’ve talked about how we can use vulnerability scans, penetration tests, and bug bounties to find vulnerabilities in our systems. Another approach you may have…