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In Fundamentals6 articles
- Fundamentals
MFA: The Second Lock That Hackers Can Still Pick
Multi-factor authentication blocks most stolen-password attacks — but not all of them. Here is how attackers get around it, and what actually holds up.
4 min read - Fundamentals
DNS: The Invisible System Behind Every Click
DNS is the internet's phonebook, turning the names you type into addresses computers can reach. Almost everything online starts with that lookup.
2 min read - Fundamentals
Encryption: How Your Data Becomes Unreadable to Everyone Else
Encryption is the quiet technology behind every padlock in your browser. Here is how it actually works, and where it stops helping.
2 min read - Fundamentals
Passwords: Why a Password Manager Beats Your Memory
Nobody can remember dozens of strong, unique passwords. A password manager does it for you, and does the job more safely than memory ever could.
2 min read - Fundamentals
The CIA Triad: Three Words Behind Every Security Decision
Confidentiality, integrity and availability: the CIA triad behind almost every security control that exists.
2 min read - Fundamentals
Zero Trust Security: Why Being Inside the Network Proves Nothing
Zero trust security means no user, device or network location is trusted by default. Every request is checked, and access is kept to the minimum.
4 min read
In Attacks5 articles
- Attacks
Phishing: How a Simple Email Can Lead to a Big Problem
It only takes one click. Here is how phishing works, why it is so effective, and how you can spot it.
4 min read - Attacks
Ransomware: What Really Happens When Hackers Lock Your Files
The locked-screen moment is the loud part. Understanding what happens before it is where defenders find their advantage.
4 min read - Attacks
Social Engineering: Hacking the Human Instead of the Computer
The easiest system to break into is often a person. Social engineering is the art of persuading someone to help an attacker get in.
2 min read - Attacks
Malware: The Many Faces of Malicious Software
Viruses, trojans, ransomware, spyware: all of it is malware, and each type does a different job for whoever deployed it.
2 min read - Attacks
DDoS: When a Crowd of Fake Visitors Takes a Website Down
A DDoS attack steals nothing. It just makes a service so busy answering fake requests that real users can no longer get in.
2 min read
In SOC & Blue Team5 articles
- SOC & Blue Team
SIEM: The Security Camera System for Your Entire Network
A SIEM is the control room where every camera feed comes together. Here is how that idea maps to real security operations.
4 min read - SOC & Blue Team
EDR: The Flight Recorder on Every Laptop
Antivirus asks whether it's seen a file before. Endpoint detection and response, or EDR, asks what a machine is doing right now.
2 min read - SOC & Blue Team
Incident Response: What Happens After the Alarm Goes Off
An alert is only the beginning. Incident response is the calm, repeatable process that carries a team through what comes next.
2 min read - SOC & Blue Team
The SOC: Inside the Team That Never Stops Watching
A security operations center, or SOC, is the team, process and toolset that watches an organisation for attacks and responds to them.
2 min read - SOC & Blue Team
Threat Hunting: Looking for Attackers Nobody Has Alerted On
Alerts catch what defenders already know to look for. Threat hunting is the deliberate search for what they haven't thought to check.
2 min read
In Threat Intelligence5 articles
- Threat Intelligence
Threat Intelligence: How Defenders Learn to Think Like Attackers
Threat intelligence turns raw, scattered information about attackers into something a defender can actually act on.
2 min read - Threat Intelligence
IOCs: The Digital Fingerprints Attackers Leave Behind
An indicator of compromise, or IOC, is a clue: a file fingerprint, address or domain suggesting something malicious took place.
2 min read - Threat Intelligence
MITRE ATT&CK: The Attacker's Playbook, Published for Defenders
A shared, public catalogue of how attackers behave, used to talk about threats, plan defences and spot gaps.
4 min read - Threat Intelligence
OSINT: Investigating With Nothing but Public Information
Open-source intelligence, or OSINT, is what you can learn without hacking anything: public records, websites, social posts and more.
2 min read - Threat Intelligence
Threat Actors: Who Is Actually Attacking, and Why
Not every threat actor wants the same thing. Knowing the type of adversary you're facing helps predict what they'll do next.
2 min read