In today's modern world, the risk of cyber threats have increased significantly. With 5.16 billion people globally using the internet, you can understand how the use of hacktivism has increased The question we are asking today, is hacktivism a thre…

There is no doubt you have heard the word 'hacker' in recent years, but are you familiar with the word hacktivist and what this means? Today we are going to explore what is a hacktivist, what is their purpose, why they perform some of their acts and…

In an increasingly complex and fast-paced digital landscape, organizations strive to protect themselves from various security threats. However, limited resources often hinder security teams when combatting these threats, making it difficult to keep…

 Last week I was able to attend the CyberThreat 23 (CT23) conference in London, held by SANs and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) The conference has been running for a few years now and from SANs marketing material the event is: Desi…

TLDR: Building a Splunk Test instance is really useful, helps protect against prod outages and very performant hardware is now available for a fraction of the price it used to be; if you're willing to deal with some tech challenges! Splunk Test in…

As my PA-220 firewall heads towards EoL I swapped it out for a PA-410 and OS 11.x I've worked professionally with firewall platforms for nearly 20 years, during that time I've configured Netscreen, Juniper, Palo Alto and Cisco to name a f…