Watching the Network You Built - Network Security Part 2
Part 2 puts the security in motion: services, the monitoring pipeline your log lines feed, wireless done currently, safe remote access, and where it all leads.
CyberDefense
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Vaultwarden and HashiCorp Vault: Different Jobs in the Same Secrets Architecture
Yesterday I wrote about moving autonomous-agent secrets out of a flat .env file. Why I kept Vaultwarden for people and recovery, added HashiCorp Vault for workloads, and treated identity, audit, PKI, and tested recovery as part of the deployment rather than follow-up work.
The Map and the Floor
After years of working, teaching, writing in this field, the pattern I see most in newcomers is not lack of ability. It is freezing...
Practice at Home the Way You Preach at Work
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."
ATT&CK
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Basics Series - #5 Firewall Configuration (OPNsense VM Configuration) Part 3
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...
Amazon
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Every Seat in the SOC: The Incident Response and Investigation Labs in the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook, Second Edition
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...
Amazon
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The Unglamorous Loop That Decides Everything: Inside the Vulnerability and Configuration Management Labs
I've been working through the second edition of the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook's "secret menu" one domain at a time...the controls that still mean something after everything else has fallen. This installment does something different...it looks down at the ground all of them are standing on.
Book
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The Innermost Ring: Hands-On Identity and Encryption Labs from the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook, Second Edition
Every control we design as architects ultimately serves one of two questions. Who is allowed to do what — and is the data still protected ... Access control answers the first. Data protection answers the second. Together they form the innermost ring of a defense-in-depth architecture...
Book
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The Source of Foreknowledge: Inside the Security Monitoring and Analytics Labs of the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook
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....
Two Books for the Price of One: The Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook, Second Edition — and the Capstone Lab That Builds an AI-Powered SOC
Alongside the printed edition, the book's associated GitHub repository holds over 700 more pages of supplementary content and hands-on labs...
AI
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Found in the Wild!
I'm thrilled to share that the second edition of the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook is officially out in the world.
Book
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It's Official: Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook, Second Edition Is Now Available for Pre-Order!
The Second Edition of the Cybersecurity Architect's Handbook: An Architect's Guide to Designing, Building, and Defending the Modern Enterprise is now available for pre-order on Amazon.