Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 15 min readIdentity Foundations: Everything Before OAuthBefore any protocol makes sense on its own terms, a few things underneath it need to be settled first: what authentication and authorization actually are as distinct concepts, how identity gets carrie00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 9 min readIdentity Was the Gap I Did Not Know I HadI had worked across cloud security engineering, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and application security. I had reviewed IAM configurations across multiple cloud platforms, flagged over00
SSaguninsagunwrites.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 4 min readWhat Is Packed Malware?Imagine receiving a locked box. You know something is inside, but you can't see what it is until you open it. Now imagine that every time someone tries to inspect the box, its contents are rearranged 00
SSaguninsagunwrites.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 3 min readWhat Is Macro Malware?A document can contain more than words. It can contain spreadsheets, formulas, automated tasks—and in some cases, code. That capability is useful when you want a document to perform repetitive actions00
HSHarshal Shahindelvingwithharshal.hashnode.dev·Jul 28 · 7 min readRAG Security: Threats, Attack Vectors, and Best Practices for Enterprise AIRetrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the backbone of enterprise AI applications, enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide accurate, context aware responses using organizational data00
AAudaciainaudaciatechnicalblog.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 10 min readCybersecurity: The Human Problem AI Can't FixThis blog captures the key themes from the launch event of Technically Speaking, Audacia's new podcast - held as part of Leeds Digital Mini Festival. Technology and security leaders from financial ser00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 22 · 9 min readEverything Passed. Then the End-to-End Ping Failed.I dedicated my final year project to an unsung hero. Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet lieutenant colonel who prevented nuclear war by deciding not to trust a system that told him it was certain. My superv00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 19 · 8 min readI Built What I Thought Was a Secure App. Here's Everything I Got Wrong.During the final year of my undergraduate studies, my team submitted a cloud-based banking application as part of our Network and Cloud Security coursework. We had competition. Two other teams were bu00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 14 min readOperationalising It: Making Prisma Cloud Actually UsefulAfter the Rollout: The Work That Actually Starts Deploying Prisma Cloud took months. Making it operational took longer. By the time CWPP was live across OCI and GCP and CSPM was covering all four clou00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jun 26 · 17 min readThree Vendors, One Verdict: Evaluating CSPM and CWPP at Enterprise ScaleA Note Before This Goes Further Everything in this article reflects a specific environment: an OCI-majority estate, thirty compartments, fifty-plus business units, and compliance obligations across IS00
