## From Analyst to Architect: Using a Generative AI SOAR to Automate Triage of a Zero-Day Attack **A Case Study and Tutorial for SOC Analysts, Incident Responders, and Security Automation Engineers** The modern Security Operations Center (SOC) is a battlefield. Analysts are outnumbered, outgunned, and overwhelmed by a relentless barrage of alerts. The promise of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) was supposed to be the great equalizer, a force multiplier that would allow us Read more…

## The “LambdaChain” Exploit: How a Single IAM Misconfiguration Led to a Full AWS Account Takeover **A Step-by-Step Tutorial from an Attacker’s Perspective for Cloud Developers and Cloud Security Engineers** In the world of cloud security, we often talk about the principle of least privilege. We strive to create IAM policies that are as granular as possible, giving our applications and services only the permissions they need to do their jobs. But in the complex Read more…

## Your First PQC Project: A No-Nonsense Guide to Auditing and Replacing Vulnerable RSA/ECC with CRYSTALS-Kyber **A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Lead Developers, System Architects, and IT Managers** The quantum threat is no longer the stuff of science fiction. While a cryptographically relevant quantum computer may still be a few years away, the danger it poses is already here. Adversaries are actively engaging in a “harvest now, decrypt later” strategy, capturing encrypted data today with the Read more…

The Security Operations Center (SOC) is drowning. Alert fatigue, a chronic shortage of skilled analysts, and the increasing sophistication of attackers have pushed the traditional, human-centric model of incident response to its breaking point. But a powerful new ally has entered the fray: Generative AI. By integrating large language models (LLMs) into Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms, organizations are transforming their SOCs from reactive triage centers into proactive defense hubs. This case study Read more…

Serverless architectures, particularly those built on platforms like AWS Lambda, have revolutionized cloud development, promising infinite scalability and reduced operational overhead. But this new paradigm has also created a new and dangerously subtle form of security debt: the complex web of Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies that underpin every function. A single, seemingly minor IAM misconfiguration can create a devastating privilege escalation path, allowing an attacker to chain together permissions and turn a foothold Read more…

The adoption of passkeys has been hailed as the dawn of a new, passwordless era, and for good reason. Based on the FIDO2/WebAuthn standards, passkey authentication is inherently resistant to phishing, credential stuffing, and other common attacks that have plagued us for decades. However, as this technology reaches critical mass in 2025, it’s crucial for IAM specialists, developers, and security researchers to understand that passkeys are not an infallible silver bullet. As with any major Read more…

The era of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is here. Driven by regulatory pressure and a growing awareness of supply chain risks, organizations are diligently generating these detailed dependency lists. But this has created a new, overwhelming problem: a firehose of vulnerability alerts. Your scanner lights up with a critical CVE found in a transitive dependency—a dependency of one of your dependencies—and panic ensues. But is the sky really falling? For developers and AppSec Read more…

For decades, the security of operational technology (OT) environments was ensured by a simple, physical barrier: the air gap. The networks that ran factories, power grids, and chemical plants were isolated from the corporate IT world. But the relentless drive for efficiency and data-driven insights, fueled by technologies like private 5G, has demolished that gap, creating a hyper-converged environment where a single IT vulnerability can cascade into a full-scale physical shutdown. The hypothetical “5G-Sideload” CVE Read more…

For years, the looming threat of quantum computing has felt like a distant, almost theoretical problem. But that time is over. With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) having finalized its post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards, the abstract risk has solidified into a concrete and urgent project. The “harvest now, decrypt later” attack is already underway, where adversaries are siphoning up encrypted data today, patiently waiting for the day they can break it with Read more…

In the world of cloud-native security, the container has long been the primary boundary of defense. We build walls around our pods with network policies, limit their capabilities with security contexts, and enforce rules with admission controllers. But what if an attacker could bypass all of it by going underneath? This is the new and alarming reality presented by the ubiquitous adoption of eBPF in Kubernetes, a technology so powerful it creates an entirely new, Read more…