Cipher ⁽³²⁾

What a week, huh? I didn’t get half as much done on here as I wanted to - lots of project work this week and then personal stuff in the evenings. I’m not sweating it - this is hobby and I’m happy to devote free…

Even with the best will in the world, some contractors aren’t very good at labelling network ports. This can be for a number of reasons, but the result is an exasperated admin or technician who just needs to know what port on the switch an…

Defences get stronger, attackers get smarter. And so it goes. Now that strong MFA has made compromising identities a lot more difficult, attackers are increasingly looking for other ways to compromise accounts and organisations. Social engineering isn’t new, but what they are asking users to…

Grafana is a powerhouse for observability, but it is only as useful as the data it has access to. Breaking down data silos to build an overall picture is the best thing administrators can do to provide a clear picture into their security posture, and…

I’m currently studying for CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), and while it does dive deep into risk analysis and business cyber security objectives, it also has a couple of history lessons baked into it. The "Orange Book" is the common name for the Trusted…