As a British person, nothing motivates me quite like getting annoyed by a thing, and I’m extremely annoyed at the moment. I’m annoyed that so many good, hard working people in our industry (and others, of course) are faced with the anxiety of being laid off and having to scramble…

The Blue Team is charged with defending an organization against an array of technical security threats. The Blue Team Diaries allow the reader to ride along with the Blue Team at Syntatic, a Seattle-based cloud company, who are charged with keeping millions of customer records safe. Based on the author’s…

Recently I was playing around in one of my favorite spaces — pulling data out of thin air and figuring out what it all meant. I had obtained some digital radio frequencies used by my local public transit agency, which are publicly accessible via the FCC license database, and I…

I was thinking the other day about how every single Business Continutity Plan/Disaster recovery (BCP/DR) document I’ve ever written has some mention about ‘loss of office’ or ‘loss of facility’, and how that particular scenario has evolved over the last couple of years. …

In this episode, the Blue Team has to respond to some new code gone bad, but in doing so, has to overcome some company politics and pressure to keep a major customer happy. Download the full story on Kindle. “Bagels are here, come get em,” yelled Frankie, our office manager…

This story is part of the Pen Test Diaries series, you can read more about the series here. Pentesting not your thing? Check out infosecdiaries.com for more real-life information security stories. Introduction My name is Laura Knight. When I turned twenty-one, I got a job in the intelligence community, defending the…

Read the new episode of Blue Team Diaries, free to download on Amazon Kindle this week. Get started with the first chapter right here! — Download the full story on Kindle, free for all this week: https://mybook.to/btd-recruit. Happy to announce the latest release in the Blue Team Diaries series. …

T’was the night before the breach, when all through the venture-backed hybrid work collaboration suite, not a creature was stirring, not even the reminder to take some time for self-care and give yourself a treat. The digital vaccine records were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that HIPAA…

On Sunday morning, I was faced with a situation all of us in this industry fear the most; a confirmed breach. Unlike many breaches, I was not made aware of this one thanks to a call from Brian Krebs. Instead, I became acutely aware of my predicament when preparing some…