What Is Threat Hunting? Threat hunting is the practice of proactively searching an organization’s systems and network for signs of malicious activity that existing security…
Olivia Bennett20 min readWhat Is Red Teaming? Red Teaming is an authorized, objective-based security exercise in which a team simulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures of real-world adversaries…
Olivia Bennett21 min readWhat Is Threat Intelligence? Threat intelligence is evidence-based knowledge about existing or emerging threats — the actors behind them, their methods, and their infrastructure —…
Olivia Bennett27 min readCan Cybersecurity Really Become a Freelancing Career? A small e-commerce store owner gets an email from a customer saying their account was accessed by someone…
Olivia Bennett26 min readWhat Is a Penetration Tester? A penetration tester is a cybersecurity professional who is legally authorized to simulate real-world cyberattacks against an organization’s systems, applications,…
Olivia Bennett21 min readIntroduction — Why Networking Is a Core Cybersecurity Skill An analyst opens an alert: an internal host has made repeated outbound connections to an unfamiliar…
Olivia Bennett27 min readIntroduction — Why Linux Matters in Cybersecurity A junior analyst gets handed their first real ticket: a suspicious process spawning from a web server. The…
Olivia Bennett22 min readWhat Is a Penetration Tester? Another week, another breach headline — a hospital system knocked offline, a retailer’s customer database circulating on a forum, a…
Olivia Bennett22 min readWhat Is OSCP? OSCP stands for OffSec Certified Professional (it was originally named Offensive Security Certified Professional, and most of the industry still uses that…
Olivia Bennett18 min readMonday morning, four things land on a security team’s desk within an hour of each other. An endpoint agent flags unusual behavior on a finance…
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