I spend my working hours telling teams how to do security well. Segment the network. Write the change down. Model the threat before you build the control. Then I go home, and if I am honest with myself, the temptation is to cut every one of those corners because it is "just the lab."
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...
My lab runs Debian 13 as the primary environment, so when a 356-page Ubuntu book landed on my desk, my first instinct was to skim it, nod politely... Instead I read the whole thing — and I'm giving it five stars...
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