How abandoned cloud resources and stale DNS records let attackers serve content on your domain — and what to do about it.
Dangling DNS and Abandoned Cloud Services: The Subdomain Takeover Problem Here's a scenario I want you to think about. Your company ran a marketing campaign two years ago. The campaign used a subdomai...
Most Twilio tutorials get you to 'working' fast and security never. Here's how to build the SMS integration correctly from the start.
Building a Twilio SMS Integration Securely: What Most Tutorials Skip Most API integration tutorials have the same structure: here's the quickest path to "it works." Install the SDK, paste your credent...
Why security build gates exist, how to handle the cultural pushback, and how to be a genuine partner to development teams instead of a blocker.
Blocking Builds Is Not Being Mean I want to tell you about a conversation I had with a senior engineer about three months into a role where we'd just rolled out automated security gates in the CI pipe...
A practical guide to building APIs that are secure by default — covering input validation, auth patterns, rate limiting, logging, and error handling.
Building a Secure API 90 Percent of the Time Let me be upfront about the title. You cannot build a perfectly secure API. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. But you absolutely can bui...
A ground-level look at the daily dev workflow of a security engineer — tools, code review process, security automation, Git workflow, and incident response tooling.
Dev Workflow as a Security Engineer: What My Day Actually Looks Like There's a version of "security engineer workflow" content out there that's all threat models and compliance frameworks. That's real...
A practitioner's breakdown of the OWASP API Security Top 10 — what the attacks actually look like and what you can do about them.
Explore API Security - How Do Attacks Happen If you've spent any time in DevSecOps, you already know APIs are the new perimeter. They've eaten the old monolithic app model, and now almost every intere...
An honest review of 'Hacking APIs' by Corey Ball — who should read it, what you'll learn, and how it reshapes your approach to API security.
Hacking APIs by Corey Ball — An AppSec Engineer's Review I picked up "Hacking APIs: Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces" by Corey Ball after seeing it recommended repeatedly in security ci...
From a defender's perspective: how attackers approach API hacking, and why understanding offense makes you a dramatically better defender.
How to Hack APIs - Approaches from DevSecOps There's a saying in security that I keep coming back to: you can't defend what you don't understand how to attack. I believe that fully. Not in a "let's al...
Cut through the vendor noise and learn what security tools actually do, when you need them, and when you don't.
Security Tools Simplified Let me paint you a picture. You're a developer or an ops engineer and someone from the security team drops into your Slack channel with: "We need to implement SAST, DAST, SCA...
The essential Kubernetes security concepts every practitioner needs to know before they get paged at 2am.
Kubernetes Security: A Beginner's Field Guide Let me be straight with you: Kubernetes is one of the most powerful platforms we have, and also one of the easiest to misconfigure. I've seen production c...
How to use pipelines as security enforcement points — implementing policy-as-code, tuning gates, and making security a guardrail instead of a bottleneck.
Pipeline Your Way to Safety There's a version of security that looks like this: a team of security engineers sitting downstream of development, reviewing things after they've been built, filing ticket...
Essential security knowledge every developer needs to build secure applications, from basic principles to practical implementation techniques.
<!-- Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash --> Security For Developers: Essential Knowledge Every Developer Should Have Building security into your code from day one As developers, we often think of s...
Battle-tested strategies for handling security incidents under pressure
Incident Response Playbook: Lessons from Real Cyber Attacks After responding to dozens of security incidents—from ransomware attacks to APT campaigns—I've learned that good incident response isn't jus...
Secure your infrastructure from code to cloud with battle-tested Terraform patterns
Terraform Security Best Practices: Infrastructure as Code Done Right After managing Terraform deployments across hundreds of cloud environments, I've learned that Infrastructure as Code security isn't...
Security patterns and practices for production-ready Go APIs
Building Secure REST APIs in Go: A Developer's Guide to Security-First Design After building APIs that handle millions of requests daily, I've learned that security can't be an afterthought. In this g...
Real-world threat hunting techniques from the trenches
Advanced Threat Hunting: Detection Strategies That Actually Work After years in the SOC and countless hours analyzing alerts, I've learned that effective threat hunting isn't about having the fanciest...
Securing Kubernetes clusters from day zero to production
Kubernetes Security Hardening: A DevSecOps Engineer's Playbook Kubernetes security isn't an afterthought—it should be built into every layer of your cluster from day one. After securing dozens of prod...
The World Of Infosec "No Sugar Coating It!" <Center><Strong> Getting Started - If You Could Hire Me That Would Be Great! </Strong><Center> So let's be honest, getting started is a bit of misnomer. wh...