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Writing Custom Coraza WAF Rules for PHP and WordPress Protection
OWASP CRS covers SQL injection and XSS but misses PHP deserialization gadget chains, WordPress admin abuse, double extension…
CrackArmor: Investigating and Fixing the AppArmor Vulnerability on Ubuntu
Qualys discovered nine vulnerabilities in AppArmor that allow unprivileged local users to manipulate security profiles and escalate to…
Firewall and Network Hardening for Validator Nodes
Blockchain validator nodes are high-value targets. They hold private keys that sign transactions, maintain consensus authority within the…
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Building an SDP Gateway with OpenZiti on Ubuntu Part 2: Services, Policies, and Client Enrollment
Create PostgreSQL and admin dashboard services on the OpenZiti overlay, define identity-based dial and bind policies, enroll the…
Building an SDP Gateway with OpenZiti on Ubuntu Part 1: Architecture and Installation
KryptoLedger AG had a VPN credential theft that led to full network compromise. This article deploys OpenZiti on…
SDP vs VPN: A Real-World Performance and Security Comparison
VPNs grant network access. SDPs grant application access. This comparison covers attack surface, lateral movement, latency benchmarks, device…
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- What Is a Software-Defined Perimeter and Why Your Servers Should Be Invisible
Traditional servers expose open ports to every scanner on the internet. Software-Defined Perimeter flips the model: authenticate first, connect second. Your server has zero open ports until identity and device…
- Building the Coraza Nginx WAF Connector on Ubuntu 24 Part 1: Architecture and Prerequisites
The Coraza Nginx Connector loads the WAF engine directly into Nginx worker processes, eliminating the reverse proxy hop. This article covers the architecture, the dlopen design that prevents Go runtime…
- Building the Coraza Nginx WAF Connector on Ubuntu 24 Part 2: Compiling, Testing, and Findings
Compiling the Coraza Nginx module against Nginx 1.24.0 source, writing SecLang WAF rules, testing 9 attack vectors including SQL injection and XSS, and documenting every issue encountered during the build…
- How SIEM Solutions Are Reshaping Enterprise Security Operations
Security teams today face an overwhelming volume of alerts, log data, and potential threats across increasingly complex enterprise environments. Security Information and Event Management platforms,…
- Kubernetes in Production: Lessons from Running Containers at Scale
Running Kubernetes in a development environment is relatively straightforward. Running it in production, where uptime matters, costs accumulate, and a misconfiguration can take down…
- Understanding Neural Networks: A Practical Introduction for Engineers
Neural networks power everything from voice assistants and recommendation engines to autonomous vehicles and medical image analysis. Despite their ubiquity, many engineers outside the machine…
- Infrastructure as Code: Why Terraform Changed the Way We Build
Before Infrastructure as Code became mainstream, provisioning a new server meant logging into a cloud console, clicking through configuration wizards, and hoping that the person who set it up…
- API Security Best Practices Every Developer Should Follow
APIs have become the backbone of modern software architecture. Mobile applications, single-page web apps, microservices, third-party integrations, and IoT devices all communicate through APIs. This…
- Monitoring and Observability: Beyond Traditional Logging
For years, operations teams relied on logs as their primary debugging tool. When something went wrong, you would SSH into a server, grep through log files, and piece together what…
- The Real Cost of Technical Debt and How to Manage It
Every software team accumulates technical debt. It is the natural consequence of making pragmatic decisions under time pressure, choosing the quick fix over the elegant solution, or building on…