Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·11h ago · 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·3d ago · 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·4d ago · 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
EJEva J Patelinevapatel123.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 10 min readThe Scam Playbook of 2026: How Cybercriminals Outsmart People—And How You Can Be Aware Of Them "The biggest cybersecurity vulnerability isn't your password anymore—it's your trust." Picture this.... Your phone rings. The caller ID says your bank. The representative knows your full name, the las00
SBSYLVESTER BENJAMINinbenjamin-sylvester.hashnode.dev·Jul 8 · 9 min readI Built the Perfect Security Scanner. Then I Realised I'd Been Asking the Wrong Question All Along.It was sometime past midnight when I caught the thing that changed how I think about this entire field. I wasn't at a client site. I wasn't in a meeting. I was sitting at my desk — same desk, same dua00
CHConnor Harteinconnorhartecybersecurity.hashnode.dev·Jul 5 · 3 min readDefensive Security - THMDiving into Defensive Security I just completed TryHackMe’s Defensive Security Intro room, and it did a great job of framing what defensive cybersecurity actually looks like in practice. Rather than f00
CHConnor Harteinconnorhartecybersecurity.hashnode.dev·Jun 28 · 4 min readSolving Hack The Box Sherlock: BrutusAbout a month ago I completed the Hack The Box Sherlock Brutus, and it was a great reminder of how much can be uncovered from a small set of Linux logs when you know what to look for. The challenge fo00
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
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
MCMilan Curguzinmilancurguz.hashnode.dev·Jun 26 · 9 min read101 Network Protocols Every Cybersecurity Beginner Should Know ARP - maps an IPv4 address to a MAC address in a local network. It is used so a computer knows which device to physically send a packet to. DHCP - automatically assigns an IP address, gateway, DNS se00
