Introduction Iâve been using Notion for several years now - itâs where I store everything from deepâdive research to HackTheBox writeâups, and even notes for my books. Itâs truly my second brain. But I also love capturing quick ideas in VSÂ Code (donât judge đ ). Thatâ...
Introduction Letâs be honest: the current AI hype is exhausting. Every company I talk to wants to âdo something with AI.â Most donât even know why - it just feels like something they should be doing. The result? Teams rush to train models on whatever data they can get...
Introduction While building Lambda-based automation for patch management and security hardening, I frequently ran into a frustrating problem: some EC2 instances failed during software installation or SSM command execution. Usually the root cause was that the instance wasnât a Managed Instance in SSM. An EC2 instance must be...
Introduction I often see companies struggle with installing security agents on their virtual machines fleets. These agents could be Wazuh, Splunk, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), or others. Setting them up manually or with tools like Ansible takes a lot of time and effort. It also doesnât fully match...
Introduction Letâs be real - when youâre working in a smaller company or with a lean cloud team, you donât always have a full-blown CNAPP solution in place. A lot of cloud engineers I meet just want to keep things manageable: theyâre already routing logs to...
The Challenge of Security Visibility in the Past Back in the day, we followed best practices to configure our services securely. However, there was always the question: Did we actually configure everything correctly? Even if we used tools to identify misconfigurations, they rarely provided a comprehensive view across all services,...
