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Becoming a Microsoft Security Researcher
Becoming a Microsoft …

Cover Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about becoming a Microsoft Security Researcher. I mentioned this in my last post. I sort of brushed over it but when I was speaking to one of my colleagues and friends about the post just before I …

Azure Linux VM Agent leaks secrets || How to harden your config
Azure Linux VM Agent …

Cover Photo by Joe Zlomek on Unsplash In this post, I’m going to talk about something that I discovered whilst working on a project a little while ago, some default behaviour in the Microsoft Azure Linux VM Agent which can lead to credential/secret leakage in your linux VM. What is the Azure …

Security Bytes: What is Least Privilege and why you should care about it - Lets fix this
Security Bytes: What is …

Welcome to the latest of my Security Bytes posts, where I dig into areas of interest in Infosec/CyberSec, and offer my opinion. In my last post, I talked about the many challenges of implementing Least Privilege. You may have been forgiven for thinking this is all just too hard to do right from day …

Security Bytes: What is Least Privilege and why you should care about it - Implementation and Challenges
Security Bytes: What is …

Welcome to the latest of my Security Bytes posts, where I dig into areas of interest in Infosec/CyberSec, and offer my opinion. In my last post, I talked at a high level about what Least Privilege actually is. In this post, I’ll explore common approaches taken/tooling used to address some of …

Security Bytes: What is Least Privilege and why you should care about it - What is Least Privilege
Security Bytes: What is …

Welcome to the latest of my Security Bytes posts, where I dig into areas of interest in Infosec/CyberSec, and offer my opinion. In my last post, I talked at a high level about the history of computers and privileged access. In this post, I want to get into a term you may hear a lot of if you work in …

Security Bytes: What is Least Privilege and why you should care about it - History
Security Bytes: What is …

This post is the first in a series of posts on the challenges of balancing privileged access with a robust security posture and a challenging delivery pipeline. It is also the first of my Security Bytes posts, where I dig into areas of interest in Information Security/Cyber Security, and offer my …