Agentic coding - a review of Claude Code
I wrote previously about some thoughts on ai coding, and today I'd like to expand on my recent experience. Earlier this month, I took the plunge and bought the Pro subscription to Claude.ai.
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Australian ASX Domain Security Report
I do a lot of work with Australian ASX companies, so naturally I've been inspired by Scott Helme's Crawler Ninja project to get a sense of where the security posture of all these companies sits. There's a ton of information that every website reveals about itself, so by simply looking at what they publicly tell the world, let's do a bit of a deep dive for the month of July.
Zero Trust for Applications
The Zero Trust methodology has been around for a while, and many organisations have been implementing Zero Trust principles. When considering applications deployed in an enterprise, organisations typically implement zero trust at the infrastructure layer, protecting access to and from applications and securing network communications.
Infrastructure-level protection is essential, but there's another threat vector: the application itself. While SDLC processes and security tools help secure code, there's an opportunity to implement Zero Trust principles directly within applications.
Reporting Tools Overview
As a Cyber specialist, I have had to develop quite a few security dashboards over the years. This has lead me down a path of data engineering, combining my expertise in Cyber engineering with data. While working with different reporting tools, I have come to know some of them quite well, and in this blog post, I will share some of my thoughts on the different tools, and give you a bit of insight to which one to choose for your next project.
HOWTO: Host your own reporting platform on AWS
Metabase and Grafana are both quite capable reporting platforms. Both vendors offer you the ability to run the software for free on your own infrastructure, so it's quite an attractive option for companies who would like to have some business intelligence capability without breaking the bank. In this guide, I will show you how can use the Cloudformation template to deploy these reporting tools on your aws environment.
The Metric Library: Practical Security Metrics for Real Dashboards
"Build my cyber security dashboard, and put metrics on the board" - A statement I have heard all too often, and when you go into the design phase to choose the metrics, there are blank stares all around the room. We want to measure something, but we don't know what.
Security is not Compliance
Some companies like to combine their Security and Compliance teams into one entity. I've worked in environments like that before, and I can tell you from experience that it is usually a bad idea to mix the two. Let's dig into it.
Who's using my certificates?
A few weeks ago, aws informed me that it was unable to renew some of my ACM, naturaly because I moved it all over to Cloudflare a few months ago. Things got interesting when I tried to clean it up..
Coding with AI
Tools like ChatGPT have been a game changer in a lot of industries. There is a fear floating that AI will replace programmers, displacing more jobs. Over the past year I have been using these tools in my own coding journey, and I learned a few things along the way.
The Art of Troubleshooting
As technicians, we often have to solve some difficult problems. I've had my fair share of whoppers, were I thought the world is coming crashing down. After a while, I started learning a process for dealing with technical problems.