I have taught this material before as two sessions, and I usually open each session the same way: this is not a tool class. Tools get named below, plenty of them, but every one is an implementation of the same pipeline, and the pipeline is what transfers to whatever product your employer bought...
A tool's failure is advisory because a human still reviews the output before anything happens. An agent's failure is operational because the bad output is the action...
Welcome back to the Basics Series. In Basics Series - #3 we compared the firewall market, picked OPNsense for the lab, and installed it as a VM. In Basics Series - #4 we worked through the traditional vs. transparent-bridged decision and I promised a configuration walkthrough. This is that post...
This installment does something different. Every domain we've covered so far — even the unglamorous hygiene loop — was, at bottom, an attempt to keep the bad day from arriving. This one starts the morning after it did...
Every query a device makes is a statement of intent — what it wanted to reach, when, and how often — and once you're logging them, you're no longer just blocking bad names. You're watching behavior....
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In the last post I gave you the tour — the foundational labs, the eight operational categories...So let's start where the whole discipline starts: Category 1, Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment.
I'm thrilled to share that the second edition of the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook is officially out in the world.
When the first edition of Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook: An End-to-End Guide to Implementing and Maintaining Robust Security Architecture hit shelves, the goal was ambitious but clear...
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