Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Sep 3 · 11 min readWindows Memory Forensics: Finding a Live Infection with VolatilityPID 1484 had been running since boot. Nothing about that was unusual: it was Explorer.exe, the process every Windows machine on earth is running right now. What was unusual was the process hanging off00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Sep 3 · 9 min readGNU/Linux Memory Forensics: Is the Compromise Still Live?It's easy to think of memory forensics purely as a hunt for something malicious. On this case, a GNU/Linux server that had already been through a full attack chain, initial access, privilege escalatio00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Aug 31 · 19 min readOpenID Connect: The Identity Layer OAuth Was MissingBy the time I actually heard the word OIDC, I'd already been through OAuth and PKCE conversations I hadn't fully understood, years apart from each other, and this one arrived even later than those. It00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 31 min readUnderstanding OAuth 2.0: Delegation, Grant Types, and the Attacks That Actually HappenThe first time I heard the term OAuth, I didn't know what it meant. I was in a conversation with a DBA lead about something adjacent to authentication and authorization, and he mentioned, almost in pa00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 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 carrie13N
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Aug 5 · 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 over11N
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 clou11N
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 IS10
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Jun 27 · 9 min readDeploying Prisma Cloud Across AWS, Azure, OCI and GCP: What Actually Happened ?A proof of concept tells you a product works. It doesn't tell you what happens when you try to onboard fifty-plus business units, four cloud providers, and four identity stacks without breaking anythi00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·May 23 · 10 min readFour Clouds, No Visibility: The Multi-Cloud Security Problem Nobody Had Budgeted ForHow We Ended Up Here I joined as a Cloud and Operations Security Specialist. Secure the cloud stack, operationalise it. That was the brief. Nobody mentioned there were four. Before anything else, I wa10
