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Introduction to digital forensics Incident response (DFIR) Digital Forensics is the process of analysing a computer to discover malicious activity once it has been discovered This could be as simple as a dodgy piece of software downloaded by an employee from a phishing link, or something much more sinister like Read more…
Ransomware – 3 ways to defend against the biggest threat facing IT departments today Lately, we’ve seen headlines about major companies losing millions to ransomware, suffering data breaches, and experiencing stock crashes after their systems were compromised. In many cases, a ransom is publicly demanded in exchange for the return Read more…
Kubernetes Cluster Creation With Load balancer During my Cloud studies I learned about what Kubernetes clusters is and what it is used for, however recently through following senior professionals I have realised the best way to learn is to make these environments yourself so that’s what I attempted this weekend. Read more…
Wazuh SIEM After discussing an upcoming project in work, I decided to build my own SIEM using Wazuh, which is a free, open-source security tool that can monitor agents and servers giving you full visibility of events and vulnerabilities on those clients. Firstly I created a Ubuntu Linux machine on Read more…
Active Directory Administration I use On-Premise and Azure Active Directory on a daily basis in my job. However when I started the environment was already set up with plenty of users, groups, OU’s ETC so I decided to create my own virtual environment and fill it with users and groups Read more…
Vulnerability Management Lab In this project I created a basic virtual machine in VMware (although this could be done locally) and installed Nessus which is a vulnerability scannerdetection tool that can be used at home or in an enterprise environment. this tool is very simple to use so I downloaded Read more…
First Cyber Security Project For my first real hands on cyber security project, I decided to follow a guide on how to create a SIEM in Microsoft Azure. I created a Windows 10 virtual machine and made it susceptible to the internet by turning almost all firewall options off in Read more…