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Google’s Linux and SQL
Introduction Another post in the Google’s Cybersecurity Professional Certificate series. As always, I’ll share the cliff notes on the courses as I go. Dense summaries of what actually matters. Today: Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL Your first vulnerability Before your OS even loads, you’re already exposed. Computers boot via BIOS (legacy) or UEFI…
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Google’s Networks and Network Security
Introduction As part of tackling the Google’s Cybersecurity Professional Certificate, I’ll share the cliff notes on the courses as I go. Dense summaries of what actually matters. Today: Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security Traffic and architecture An entry level analyst parses logs and analyzes traffic across network layers. Physical infrastructure includes firewalls (first…
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Google’s Manage Security Risks
Introduction As previously said, I’m tackling Google’s Cybersecurity Professional Certificate and I’ll share the cliff notes as I go. Dense summaries of what actually matters. Today: Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks Security domains and risk management Security teams organize their work across eight critical domains, ranging from governance (Security and Risk Management) to hands-on…
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Google’s Foundations of Cybersecurity
Introduction Years of platform engineering gave me the infrastructure fundamentals, and beyond; now I’m retooling for security. I’m tackling Google’s Cybersecurity Professional Certificate first (CompTIA Security+ next), and I’ll share the cliff notes as I go. Dense summaries of what actually matters. Kickoff: Google Foundations of Cybersecurity. Analysts and engineers Analysts man the walls, monitoring…
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From platform engineer to threat hunter
Introduction I’ve spent the last decade automating everything that moves. Turning VMs into containers, containers into orchestrated workloads, and Git repos into self-healing production platforms. I’m a Kubernetes platform engineer by trade, addicted to GitOps, service meshes, and the beautiful chaos of multi-cluster architectures. But lately? I’ve been spending more time thinking about how to…